Diagnosis Guide

Dump information

A standard AIX core dump is located in: /var/adm/SPlogs/spmon/hardmon/core. Each time a core file is created, it overlays the previously generated core file. A dump is created on each occurrence of the following conditions:

1. Errors returned from system calls. For example:
   • Memory allocation errors.
   • File open errors.
   • TTY open errors.
   • Socket processing errors.
   • Child processing errors.
2. Configuration errors. For example:
   • /spdata/sys1/spmon/hmacls file errors.
   • /spdata/sys1/spmon/hmdceobj database errors.
   • /spdata/sys1/spmon/hmthresholds file errors.
   • System Data Repository (SDR) errors.
3. Various internal (consistency check) errors. For example:
   • About to index past an array boundary.
   • Control block chain is corrupted.