A Technical Introduction

The Predictive Self-Healing Framework is part of Solaris10 and also known as the Fault Management Architecture (FMA). This framework is supported by Fujitsu on all PRIMEPOWER platforms from Solaris 10 FCS and compatible with Sun's Solaris 10 Predictive Self-Healing Features, which are:

• Automatic monitoring and diagnosis of CPU, Memory, I/O subsystems and software components.
• Automatic de-allocation of faulty resources while Solaris is running
• Administrator tools to view self-healing logs and results
• Standardized messaging for all self-healing diagnosis results
• Online knowledge articles on diagnosis messages and required intervention actions

All FMA messages direct administrators to a knowledge article on Sun's web site,

• Sun Microsystems Message Lookup

for Solaris and UltraSparc specific messages or to Fujitsu's web site,

"http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/computing/server/unix/prmpwr_msg/MSGID",

which explains more details for PRIMEPOWER platform and appropriate actions. System administrators should read and follow recommendations listed in these articles as well as to be familiar with fmd(1M) and fmdump(1M) commands. They also, can find more about the Predictive Self-Healing Framework in the following references:

• Predictive Self-Healing Knowledge Article Web
• Predictive Self-Healing BigAdmin Forum

Currently Fujitsu provides knowledge articles for FMA message IDs listed below (please follow links to get more details)

• SUN4US-8000-1A - about system memory
• SUN4US-8000-2S - about system memory
• SUN4US-8000-35 - about system memory
• SUN4US-8000-35 - about system memory
• SUN4US-8000-35 - about system memory
• SUN4US-8000-35 - about system memory
• SUN4US-8000-35 - about system memory
• SUN4US-8000-4Y - about CPU
• SUN4US-8000-53 - about CPU
• SUN4US-8000-6H - about CPU
• SUN4US-8000-7D - about system memory
• SUN4US-8000-84 - about devices
• SUN4US-8000-9R - about devices
• SUN4US-8000-AC - about devices