Server maintenance focuses on the following functional roles:

• Provide the alarm logging and reporting service for all other system components.

• Provide support-specific interface and information for server duplication and maintenance software.

• Provide maintenance commands that the support technicians use to determine the condition of the system and perform repair or recovery actions or both.

• Provide server diagnostic, recovery, or notification mechanisms when a server processor is nonfunctional, that is, unable to execute the system software.