The following external tools can interface with the Embedded Support Partner framework to provide data about events that are external to Embedded Support Partner:
Performance monitoring tools
Diagnostic tools
These tools are not part of the Embedded Support Partner package and must be loaded separately.
The performance metrics inference engine application, pmie, which is included in the Performance Co-pilot Execution Only Environment (pcp_eoe subsystem) can interface with the Embedded Support Partner framework to provide Embedded Support Partner with performance monitoring events.
pmie is an inference engine for performance metrics: It evaluates a set of performance rules at specified time intervals. You can use a separate utility to customize and extend the rules and their attributes.
Refer to the Performance Co-Pilot IRIX Base Software Administrator's Guide, publication number 007-3964-001, for more information about pmie and the pcp_eoe subsystem.
The support tools included in the Internal Support Tools 2.0 CD release can also interface with the Embedded Support Partner framework. If you install the Internal Support Tools 2.0 CD release, Embedded Support Partner collects data from the following diagnostic tools:
IRIX based field diagnostics
Field Stress Tool (FST)
System Verification Program (SVP)
You can run the tools from the command line or from their individual user interfaces. (User interfaces are available only for the field diagnostics and FST.)
The Internal Support Tools 2.0 CD is available only to SGI support personnel (for example, System Support Engineers).
The IRIX based diagnostics test the following hardware components while IRIX is running on a system:
CPU hardware
Ethernet hardware on the BaseIO boards
Floating-point unit on the Node boards
Graphics hardware (DIVO and InfiniteReality hardware)
LINC DMA hardware on the Node, ATM, and HIPPI-S boards
MediaIO boards
Memory
Networking hardware (ATM, BaseIO, HIPPI-S, and MENET boards)
RAID array hardware
Router boards, MetaRouter boards, and connecting cables
FST is an IRIX based application that simulates varying customer application loads on SGI Origin 200, Origin 2000, and Challenge servers; and Silicon Graphics Onyx and Onyx2 workstations to determine the functionality of these systems. It is a proactive tool that validates a system by running heavy loads on the system.
SVP is an IRIX based software tool that loads and runs a suite of test programs. SVP generates a set of files that report the results of this activity.
ICRASH is a system crash analysis tool that can greatly enhance your ability to analyze IRIX system core dumps. It contains many features that enable it to display information in a clear, easy-to-read manner about the events that precede a system crash.
The availmon component of Embedded Support Partner uses data from ICRASH to determine the cause of any system interruptions that availmon detects. The availmon reports also include ICRASH data.
 | Note: ICRASH is included as part of the operating system release; it is not included on the Internal Support Tools 2.0 CD. |