efhd(1M) performs automatic error diagnosis based on the domain stop (dstop) information passed by dsmd(1M). efhd also updates the health status of components associated with a hardware failure, based on the list event that captures the diagnosis performed by the automatic diagnosis (AD) engine, POST, or the Solaris operating environment on domains. efhd passes this list event to erd(1M) for reporting.

This daemon is started automatically by the ssd(1M) daemon. Do not start it manually from the command line.

efhd(1M) does the following:

• Obtains the domain name and location of the dstop file associated with the failure.
• Receives the diagnosis results performed by the other diagnosis engines in the system, POST and the domain Solaris operating environment.
• Analyzes the errors captured in the dstop file.
• Generates the error information used by the automatic diagnosis engine to determine components associated with the encountered errors.
• Updates the component health status of the components associated with the encountered errors.
• Passes the diagnosis results to erd(1M) for reporting.

For more information refer to the System Management Services (SMS) 1.4.1 Administrator Guide.

The following files are supported:

/etc/opt/SUNWSMS/startup/ssd_start

Default startup file for ssd.

/etc/opt/SUNWSMS/SMS/config/efhd_rules.cf

Contains specialized diagnosis rules.

/etc/opt/SUNWSMS/SMS/config/SF15000.dict

Contains primary and known permutations of fault classes.

See attributes(5)for descriptions of the following attributes:

dsmd(1m), erd(1m), ssd(1m)