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Hi,

Having the IPF diag offline tools(ODE) installed in the HPSP partition is a must, for times when things get ugly hardware wise, with the IPF offline tools you get all this handy stuff:

The HP Integrity Servers and Itanium-based Workstations Offline Diagnostics and Utilities CD-ROM includes a comprehensive offline diagnostic solution. This package provides a complete set of offline diagnostic tools for verifying and troubleshooting your system hardware, including memory, I/O cards, and so on. The ODE tools are used on HP integrity servers and Itanium-based workstations similar to the way they are used on PA-RISC-based workstations.

I use it for firmware updates and also for dumping mca's when the server doesn't boot.

You can download the iso from:

https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productN...

I mounted the iso, on my linux workstation and uploaded the HP dir to one of my itanium servers:

scp -r HP bemyguest@box1:/var/adm/crash/

once you have the software uploaded, you can check if you have a HPSP(s3) partition on your SO disks:

root@box1:/var/adm/crash> setboot
Primary bootpath : 1/0/1/1/0/4/1.5.0
HA Alternate bootpath : 1/0/0/3/0.6.0
Alternate bootpath : 1/0/0/3/0.6.0

Autoboot is ON (enabled)
root@box1:/var/adm/crash> ioscan -fnkH 1/0/1/1/0/4/1.5.0
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
==========================================================================
disk 2 1/0/1/1/0/4/1.5.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 73.4GST373454LC
/dev/dsk/c3t5d0 /dev/dsk/c3t5d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c3t5d0 /dev/rdsk/c3t5d0s2
/dev/dsk/c3t5d0s1 /dev/dsk/c3t5d0s3 /dev/rdsk/c3t5d0s1 /dev/rdsk/c3t5d0s3

root@box1:/var/adm/crash> efi_ls -d /dev/rdsk/c3t5d0s3
FileName Last Modified Size

total space 418598912 bytes, free space 418578432 bytes

So we have the HPSP partion created and with the EFi fs created, if you don't have a partition, you would need to repartition your Harddisk with idisk (loosing all the info on it), you can dettach the mirror disk and partition the free mirror disk, the attach again...

if you have old ODE stuff you can recreate you HPSP fs with:

root@box1:/var/adm/crash/HP/TOOLS> efi_ls -d /dev/rdsk/c3t5d0s3
FileName Last Modified Size
MCA_Utilities/ 7/ 9/2010 0

total space 418598912 bytes, free space 417320960 bytes
root@box1:/var/adm/crash/HP> efi_fsinit -d /dev/rdsk/c3t5d0s3
root@box1:/var/adm/crash/HP> efi_ls -d /dev/rdsk/c3t5d0s3
FileName Last Modified Size

total space 418598912 bytes, free space 418578432 bytes

Ok, now lets upload the new ode tools to the HSPS efi partition:

root@box1:/var/adm/crash> efi_cp -d /dev/rdsk/c3t5d0s3 -r HP /

no we have all our tools ready in the HPSP, just in case we need them! (hope not!!!!)

root@box1:/var/adm/crash> efi_ls -d /dev/rdsk/c3t5d0s3 /HP/DIAG/ODE/
FileName Last Modified Size
. 7/ 9/2010 0
.. 7/ 9/2010 0
050227_AM225_23XA_nvm.frm 7/ 9/2010 525376
050227_NC532m_nvm.frm 7/ 9/2010 525376
050227_efi.efi 7/ 9/2010 736032
CIODIAG.EFI 7/ 9/2010 553984
CIODIAG2.EFI 7/ 9/2010 798720
COPYUTIL.EFI 7/ 9/2010 1126400
CPUDIAG.EFI 7/ 9/2010 1454080
DFDUTIL.EFI 7/ 9/2010 942592
DFDUTILU.EFI 7/ 9/2010 940544
ESCADIAG.EFI 7/ 9/2010 922112
FCFUPDATE.EFI 7/ 9/2010 470528
IODIAG.EFI 7/ 9/2010 262656
IPF1006 7/ 9/2010 8
Intel_PCIe_03081800_efi.efi 7/ 9/2010 585472
MAPFILE 7/ 9/2010 94208
MAPPER.EFI 7/ 9/2010 1113600
MEMDIAG.EFI 7/ 9/2010 328192
MOABDIAG.EFI 7/ 9/2010 358912
MP.EFI 7/ 9/2010 580608
ODE.EFI 7/ 9/2010 480256
PERFVER.EFI 7/ 9/2010 939520
PLUTODIAG.EFI 7/ 9/2010 610816
REODIAG.EFI 7/ 9/2010 1202688

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also it's a good idea to also copy the ODE tools to the HPSP(s3) mirror disk partition.