Service and productivity tools

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Several service and productivity tools are available.

Hardware inventory
Hardware inventory provides a simple way of finding basic information about your installed hardware. Hardware includes processors, memory, serial ports, parallel ports, power supplies, fans, graphics adapters, network adapters, and SCSI and IDE devices such as disks.
Inventory scout
Inventory scout surveys the system for Vital Product Data (VPD).
Platform diagnostics (ppc64-diag)
Platform diagnostics report firmware events, provide an automated response mechanism to urgent events, and provide event notifications to system administrators and service frameworks.
servicelog
Use the servicelog and related utilities to manage events that require service.
Service aids
Service Aids includes a wide variety of commands to help you manage your system.
IBM Performance Management for Power Systems
IBM Performance Management for Power Systems provides you with critical information about current and long-term system utilization trends. It also provides insight on what extra capability your system has, and what upgrades you might need for future applications.
Large page analysis
The IBM® Large Page Analysis tool records runtime memory usage and generates a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) miss rate report.
IBM Power RAID adapter utilities (iprutils)
IBM Power® RAID (IPR) adapter utilities provide tools that are required by the IBM Power RAID adapter device driver.
Electronic Service Agent
IBM Electronic Service Agent is a no-charge software tool that resides on your system to automatically and continuously monitor, collect, and submit hardware problem information to the IBM Electronic Support website. IBM Electronic Service Agent can also routinely collect and submit hardware, software, performance, and system configuration information, which might help IBM Support in diagnosing problems.
Secure data deletion for devices
You can securely delete data for disk drives, solid-state drives (SSD), Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) devices.

Parent topic: Managing your server with service and productivity tools