Manual Chapter : Background diagnostics overview

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F5OS-A

  • 1.2.0
Manual Chapter

Background diagnostics overview

Background diagnostics run continuously in the background, do not affect production traffic, and do not require you to take the system out of service to run them.

Background diagnostics tasks

Background diagnostics tasks cover specific components and functions, at varying schedules.
Subsystem
Task
Schedule
Hardware
LOP monitors sensor status
Asynchronous
TPM
TPM status check
System start-up
CPLD
CPLD check
System start-up
Drives
NVME SMART attributes
Interval
Drives
Disk usage task
Interval
Memory
Temperature
Interval
Memory
Memory controller events
Interval
CPU
Temperature
Interval
CPU
Memory controller event records
Interval
CPU
Extended event log events
Interval
LOP
LOP task - firmware diagnostic data
Interval
Sensors
LOP - sensors
Interval
LCD
LCD - health
Interval
LCD
LCD - sensors
Interval

TPM (Trusted Platform Module) status check

Description

The TPM (Trusted Platform Module) status check runs when the system starts up and verifies the TPM health status. For more information, see "Trusted Platform Module (TPM) overview" in
F5 rSeries Systems: Administration and Configuration
.

Schedule

System start-up

CPLD (Complex Programmable Logic Device) check

Description

The CPLD (Complex Programmable Logic Device) status check runs when the system starts up and verifies the ability to read the CPLD magic byte.

Schedule

System start-up

Storage drives - NVME SMART attributes

Description

The NVME SMART attributes task verifies the internal status of installed storage drives, including this information:
  • Drive critical warnings
  • Drive media errors
  • Drive media percentage of storage used
  • Drive media percentage of available storage
  • Drive temperature within normal operating range

Schedule

Interval

Storage drives - Disk usage

Description

The disk usage task calculates the percentage used of disk capacity and reports alarms when drives reach low capacity of unused space.

Schedule

Interval

Memory temperature

Description

The memory temperature task gathers errors produced by dual in-line memory module (DIMM) sensors when temperature is out of an acceptable range.

Schedule

Interval

Memory controller

Description

The memory controller task gathers errors reported by the system and errors reported by the error detection and correction (EDAC) mechanism for dual in-line memory modules (DIMMs).

Schedule

Interval

CPU temperature

Description

The CPU temperature task monitors the CPU core temperatures and reports alarms when the temperature is out of an acceptable range.

Schedule

Interval

CPU memory controller event records

Description

The CPU memory controller event records task gathers errors reported by the memory reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) daemon.

Schedule

Interval

CPU extended event log check

Description

The CPU extended event log check task gathers extended event log errors reported by the memory reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) daemon.

Schedule

Interval

LOP (Lights Out Processor) - Firmware diagnostic data

Description

The LOP - Firmware diagnostic data task monitors the lights-out processor (LOP) firmware diagnostic data and stores data in a JSON log file on the file system at
/var/F5/diag-agent/logs
. These log files are added when generating a QKView file.

Schedule

Interval

LOP (Lights Out Processor) - Sensors

Description

The LOP - Sensors task monitors the lights-out processor (LOP) sensor status for the fan tray, power supply unit (PSU) controller, blades, and system controllers.

Schedule

Interval

LCD - Health check

Description

The LCD Health Check task monitors the health of the LCD and reports alarms when the LCD is unhealthy.

Schedule

Interval

LCD - Sensors

Description

The LCD Sensors task periodically monitors the various LCD sensors and reports their values.

Schedule

Interval