Troubleshooting the Integrated Virtualization Manager
Use service-management tasks to maintain and troubleshoot the Integrated Virtualization Manager.
Use the service management tasks to maintain your managed system so that it is running and up to date.
- Activating the Electronic Service Agent on the Integrated Virtualization Manager
After you activate the Electronic Service Agent™ Version 6 for Integrated Virtualization Manager, you can use it to aid in service management for your system. - Backing up and restoring partition data
Use the Integrated Virtualization Manager to back up or restore the partition configuration information about your managed system. You can download an existing backup of the partition configuration, generate a new backup, upload a saved backup, or restore the existing backup. - Backing up virtual media and user files to tape
Use the Integrated Virtualization Manager to back up files in your user /home directory and virtual media files from your managed system to tape. - Restoring virtual media and user files from tape
Use the Integrated Virtualization Manager to restore files in your user /home directory and virtual media files from tape to your managed system. - Viewing application logs
View the application log entries on your managed system. Application logs are files that contain events and errors generated by the Integrated Virtualization Manager. - Viewing application log properties
Use the Integrated Virtualization Manager to view the properties of the application log entries on your managed system. - Monitoring tasks
View and monitor the most recent 40 tasks that are running on the Integrated Virtualization Manager. - Viewing hardware inventory
Use the Integrated Virtualization Manager to list the devices on your managed system, including device name, status, type of device, and physical location code. - Recovering virtual optical device settings for IBM i client partitions
When you restart the management partition, sometimes virtual optical device settings for IBM® i client partitions can be lost. - Executing Inventory scout command on the Integrated Virtualization Manager
To generate the Microcode survey and Vital Product Data (VPD) Survey reports for the Integrated Virtualization Manager system, you must run the invscout command on the VIOS partition as user root.
Parent topic: Integrated Virtualization Manager
Last updated: Thu, May 07, 2020