If desired, you can initiate surveillance mode immediately from service aids. In addition to the three optionsabove, a fourth option allows you to select immediate surveillance, and rebooting of the system is notnecessarily required.If operating system surveillance is enabled (and system firmware has passed control to the operatingsystem), and the service processor does not detect any heartbeats from the operating system, the serviceprocessor assumes the system is hung and takes action according to the reboot/restart policy settings.See “Service Processor Reboot/Restart Recovery” on page 39.If surveillance is selected from the service processor menus which are only available at system boot, thensurveillance is enabled by default as soon as the system boots. From service aids, the selection isoptional.Service Processor Error LogsThe service processor error logs, an example of which follows, contain error conditions detected by theservice processor.Error Log1. 11/30/99 19:41:56 Service Processor Firmware FailureB1004999Enter error number for more details.Press Return to continue, or ’x’ to return to menu.Press "C" to clear error log, any other key to continue. >Note: The time stamp in this error log is coordinated universal time (UTC), which is also referred to asGreenwich mean time (GMT). Operating system error logs have additional information available andcan time stamp with local time.Entering an error number provides nine words of system reference code (SRC) data; an example menufollows.Detail: 6005SRC- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -word11:B1004999 word12:0110005D word13:00000000word14:00000000 word15:00001111 word16:00000 000word17:B1004AAA word18:0114005D word19:A4F1E909B1004999Press Return to continue, or ’x’ to return to menu.If Return is pressed, the contents of NVRAM will be dumped 320 bytes at a time, starting at address 0000.48 Eserver pSeries 655 User’s Guide
