Detect Faults Identified by the Oracle Solaris PSH Facility (Oracle ILOM fmdump Command) - Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server Topic Set

The Oracle ILOM fmdump command displays the list of faults detected by the Oracle Solaris PSH facility and identifies the faulty FRU for a particular EVENT_ID (UUID).

Note - Do not use fmdump to verify that a FRU replacement has cleared a fault, because the output of fmdump is the same after the FRU has been replaced. Use the fmadm faulty command to verify that the fault has cleared. See Clear Faults Detected by PSH.

Check the event log using the fmdump command with -v for verbose output.
In the following example, a fault is displayed, indicating the following details.
- Date and time of the fault (Jul 31 12:47:42.2007)
- Universal Unique Identifier (UUID). The UUID is unique for every fault (fd940ac2-d21e-c94a-f258-f8a9bb69d05b)
- Message identifier, which can be used to obtain additional fault information (SUN4V-8000-JA)
- Faulted FRU. The information provided in the example includes the part number of the FRU (part=541215101) and the serial number of the FRU (serial=101083). The Location field provides the name of the FRU. In Output from the fmdump -v Command the FRU name is MB, meaning the motherboard.
  Note - fmdump displays the PSH event log. Entries remain in the log after the fault has been repaired.
Use the message ID to obtain more information about this type of fault.
1. In a browser, go to the Predictive Self-Healing Knowledge Article web site: http://www.sun.com/msg
2. Obtain the message ID from the console output or the Oracle ILOM show faulty command.
3. Enter the message ID in the SUNW-MSG-ID field, and click Lookup.
  In PSH Message Output, the message ID SUN4V-8000-JA provides information for corrective action:
Follow the suggested actions to repair the fault.

Example 10 Output from the fmdump -v Command

# fmdump -v -u fd940ac2-d21e-c94a-f258-f8a9bb69d05b
TIME                 UUID                                 SUNW-MSG-ID
Jul 31 12:47:42.2007 fd940ac2-d21e-c94a-f258-f8a9bb69d05b SUN4V-8000-JA
  100%  fault.cpu.ultraSPARC-T2.misc_regs
 
        Problem in: cpu:///cpuid=16/serial=5D67334847
           Affects: cpu:///cpuid=16/serial=5D67334847
               FRU: hc://:serial=101083:part=541215101/motherboard=0
          Location: MB

Example 11 PSH Message Output

CPU errors exceeded acceptable levels
 
Type
    Fault 
Severity
    Major 
Description
    The number of errors associated with this CPU has exceeded acceptable levels. 
Automated Response
    The fault manager will attempt to remove the affected CPU from service. 
Impact
    System performance may be affected. 
 
Suggested Action for System Administrator
    Schedule a repair procedure to replace the affected CPU, the identity of which can be determined using fmdump -v -u <EVENT_ID>. 
 
Details
    The Message ID:  SUN4V-8000-JA indicates diagnosis has determined that a CPU is faulty. The Oracle Solaris fault manager arranged an automated attempt to disable this CPU....

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