How to Decode Platform Alarms

Use the following procedure to determine all the platform alarms that exist in a given category:

Look in Platform Alarms to see if the alarm number is shown there.
- If the alarm number matches one of the alarms shown in this table, only one alarm (the one that appears in the table) is being reported and you have completed this procedure.
- If the alarm number does not match one of the alarms shown in this table, perform the remaining steps of this procedure.
Log in as any user to either server.
Enter the following command to decode the reported hexadecimal alarm string:
$ /usr/TKLC/plat/bin/almdecode <alarm_number>
The output displays the information about the alarm category and displays the text string for each of the alarms that is represented by the string. For example, if you enter:

$ /usr/TKLC/plat/bin/almdecode 3000000000000180

the following text displays:
```
The string alarm value comes from the Major Platform alarm category.
```
The following alarms are encoded within the hex string:
Server Swap Space Shortage FailureServer Provisioning Network Error