Oracle^® ILOM User's Guide for System Monitoring and Diagnostics Firmware Release 3.2.x

Generate a Nonmaskable Interrupt

Before You Begin

• Obtain permission from Oracle Services prior to performing this procedure.

• To generate an NMI from the Oracle ILOM interfaces, you need the Admin (a) role enabled.

• The setting for generating a nonmaskable interrupt from Oracle ILOM might not be supported on all Oracle servers.

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Caution  - Depending on the host OS configuration, generating a nonmaskable interrupt (NMI) might cause the OS to crash, stop responding, or wait for external debugger input.

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• To generate a processor interrupt, do one of the following:
  • From the Oracle ILOM web interface:
    1. Click Host Management > Diagnostics.

       The Diagnostics page appears.

    2. Click the Generate NMI button.

       An NMI is sent to the host.

  • From the Oracle ILOM CLI, type:

    set /HOST/diag generate_host_nmi=true

    For example:

    -> set generate_host_nmi=true
    set ???generate_host_nmi' to ???true'
    

    An NMI is sent to the host.