OpenVMS Alpha Crash Dump Analysis
Course #V780Course Description:
The purpose of the course is to provide
participants with the knowledge to successfully analyze the cause of VAX/Alpha system
crashes. The course length is five days and incorporates our Lab+Lecture format.
Target Audience:
Experienced system managers and field
service support technicians.
Course Topics:
Instructions that modify the stack and practice reading the stack
Using MACRO32, MACRO64 and BLISS listings
- example of user program with multiple psects
- Layout and use of VMS listings on CD
Using LINKER maps
- example of user program
- example of sys.map
- Location and use of system loadable image maps
Translation of addresses to source code
VMS details
- Exception dispatching
- System service dispatching
- Pool allocation routines
How bugchecks occur
How to decode the most common bugchecks
How to decode unusual bugchecks
Symbol tables
- reading VMS created symbols
- creating your own symbols in macro
Sda commands
- examine with a range
- show commands
- show stack with a range
- show resource
- show crash
- show exec
- show lock
- show device
- Search command
- Set output and why
Analyzing many crashes both software and hardware created.
Prerequisites:
Knowledge of VMS Internals is required
and an understanding of MACRO32 highly recommended.
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