Document revision date: 30 March 2001

## OpenVMS Alpha System Analysis Tools Manual

Begin | Index

Contents (summary)
Preface | Preface
Chapter 1 | Overview of System Analysis Tools
Part 1 | OpenVMS Alpha System Dump Analyzer (SDA)
Chapter 2 | SDA Description
Chapter 3 | ANALYZE Usage Summary and Qualifiers
Chapter 4 | SDA Commands
Chapter 5 | SDA CLUE Extension Commands
Chapter 6 | SDA Spinlock Tracing Utility
Chapter 7 | SDA Extension Routines
Part 2 | OpenVMS Alpha System Code Debugger & System Dump Debugger
Chapter 8 | The OpenVMS Alpha System Code Debugger
Chapter 9 | The OpenVMS Alpha System Dump Debugger
Part 3 | OpenVMS Watchpoint Utility
Chapter 10 | The Watchpoint Utility
| Index
| Figures
| Examples
| Tables

## Contents

Preface
Preface | Preface
Chapter 1
1 | Overview of System Analysis Tools
1.1 | System Dump Analyzer (SDA)
1.2 | System Code Debugger (SCD)
1.3 | System Dump Debugger (SDD)
1.4 | Watchpoint Utility
1.5 | Delta/XDelta Debugger
1.6 | Dump Off System Disk (DOSD)
Part 1
Part 1 | OpenVMS Alpha System Dump Analyzer (SDA)
Chapter 2
2 | SDA Description
2.1 | Capabilities of SDA
2.2 | System Management and SDA
2.2.1 | Writing System Dumps
2.2.1.1 | Dump File Style
2.2.1.2 | Comparison of Full and Selective Dumps
2.2.1.3 | Controlling the Size of Page Files and Dump Files
2.2.1.4 | Writing to the System Dump File
2.2.1.5 | Writing to the Dump File off the System Disk
2.2.1.6 | Writing to the System Page File
2.2.2 | Saving System Dumps
2.2.3 | Invoking SDA When Rebooting the System
2.3 | Analyzing a System Dump
2.3.1 | Requirements
2.3.2 | Invoking SDA
2.3.3 | Mapping the Contents of the Dump File
2.3.4 | Building the SDA Symbol Table
2.3.5 | Executing the SDA Initialization File (SDA$INIT)
2.4 | Analyzing a Running System
2.5 | SDA Context
2.6 | SDA Command Format
2.6.1 | General Command Format
2.6.2 | Expressions
2.6.2.1 | Radix Operators
2.6.2.2 | Arithmetic and Logical Operators
2.6.2.3 | Precedence Operators
2.6.2.4 | Symbols
2.7 | Investigating System Failures
2.7.1 | General Procedure for Analyzing System Failures
2.7.2 | Fatal Bugcheck Conditions
2.7.2.1 | Mechanism Array
2.7.2.2 | Signal Array
2.7.2.3 | 64-Bit Signal Array
2.7.2.4 | Exception Stack Frame
2.7.2.5 | SSRVEXCEPT Example
2.7.2.6 | Illegal Page Faults
2.8 | Inducing a System Failure
2.8.1 | Meeting Crash Dump Requirements
2.8.2 | Procedure for Causing a System Failure
Chapter 3
3 | ANALYZE Usage Summary and Qualifiers
3.1 | ANALYZE Usage Summary
3.2 | ANALYZE Qualifiers
Command 1 | /CRASH_DUMP
Command 2 | /OVERRIDE
Command 3 | /RELEASE
Command 4 | /SYMBOL
Command 5 | /SYSTEM
Chapter 4
4 | SDA Commands
Command 6 | @(Execute Command)
Command 7 | ATTACH
Command 8 | COPY
Command 9 | DEFINE
Command 10 | DEFINE/KEY
Command 11 | DUMP
Command 12 | EVALUATE
Command 13 | EXAMINE
Command 14 | EXIT
Command 15 | FORMAT
Command 16 | HELP
Command 17 | MAP
Command 18 | MODIFY DUMP
Command 19 | READ
Command 20 | REPEAT
Command 21 | SEARCH
Command 22 | SET CPU
Command 23 | SET ERASE_SCREEN
Command 24 | SET FETCH
Command 25 | SET LOG
Command 26 | SET OUTPUT
Command 27 | SET PROCESS
Command 28 | SET RMS
Command 29 | SET SIGN_EXTEND
Command 30 | SET SYMBOLIZE
Command 31 | SHOW ADDRESS
Command 32 | SHOW BUGCHECK
Command 33 | SHOW CALL_FRAME
Command 34 | SHOW CLUSTER
Command 35 | SHOW CONNECTIONS
Command 36 | SHOW CPU
Command 37 | SHOW CRASH
Command 38 | SHOW DEVICE
Command 39 | SHOW DUMP
Command 40 | SHOW EXECUTIVE
Command 41 | SHOW GALAXY
Command 42 | SHOW GCT
Command 43 | SHOW GLOBAL_SECTION_TABLE, SHOW GST
Command 44 | SHOW GLOCK
Command 45 | SHOW GMDB
Command 46 | SHOW GSD
Command 47 | SHOW HEADER
Command 48 | SHOW LAN
Command 49 | SHOW LOCKS
Command 50 | SHOW MACHINE_CHECK
Command 51 | SHOW MEMORY
Command 52 | SHOW PAGE_TABLE
Command 53 | SHOW PARAMETER
Command 54 | SHOW PFN_DATA
Command 55 | SHOW POOL
Command 56 | SHOW PORTS
Command 57 | SHOW PROCESS
Command 58 | SHOW RAD
Command 59 | SHOW RESOURCES
Command 60 | SHOW RMD
Command 61 | SHOW RMS
Command 62 | SHOW RSPID
Command 63 | SHOW SHM_CPP
Command 64 | SHOW SHM_REG
Command 65 | SHOW SPINLOCKS
Command 66 | SHOW STACK
Command 67 | SHOW SUMMARY
Command 68 | SHOW SYMBOL
Command 69 | SHOW TQE
Command 70 | SHOW WORKING_SET_LIST, SHOW WSL
Command 71 | SPAWN
Command 72 | UNDEFINE
Command 73 | VALIDATE PFN_LIST
Command 74 | VALIDATE QUEUE
Command 75 | VALIDATE SHM_CPP

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