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Locating a failing part on an AIX system or logical partition

You might need to use AIX® tools, before activating the indicator light, to locate a part that is failing.

  1. Log in as root user or celogin-.
  2. At the command line, type diag and press Enter.
  3. From the Function Selection menu, select Task Selection and press Enter.
  4. Select Display Previous Diagnostic Results and press Enter.
  5. From the Display Previous Diagnostic Results display, select Display Diagnostic Log Summary. The Display Diagnostic Log display shows a chronological list of events.
  6. Look in the T column for the most recent S entry. Select this row in the table and press Enter.
  7. Select Commit. The details of this log entry are shown.
  8. Record the location information and the SRN value shown near the end of the entry.
  9. Exit to the command line.
Use the location information for the failing part to activate the indicator light that identifies the failing part. Activating the indicator light for the failing part.

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Last updated: Tue, May 10, 2011