Diagnosis Guide

Diagnosing Perspectives problems on the SP System

This chapter discusses diagnostic procedures and failure responses for the SP Perspectives component of PSSP. The list of known error symptoms and the associated responses are in the section Error symptoms, responses, and recoveries. A list of the information to collect before contacting the IBM Support Center is in the section Information to collect before contacting the IBM Support Center.

SP Perspectives is a set of graphical user interfaces that allow the user to monitor and control their SP system. The set of perspectives include the:

• SP Hardware Perspective (sphardware)
• SP Event Perspective (spevent)
• IBM Virtual Shared Disk Perspective (spvsd)
• System Partitioning Aid Perspective (spsyspar)
• Although not a perspective application, the spled application displays the SP Nodes LED/LCD values and is launched from some perspectives.