The availmon system collects system availability information and crash diagnosis information. The availability information can be used to evaluate system reliability and availability. The crash diagnosis information is an automated aid to debugging.
The availmon software is embedded in the system boot and shutdown processes. The software is capable of differentiating controlled shutdowns, system panics, system hangs, power cycles, and power failures. Your system's uptime is estimated by a daemon process, and diagnostic information is collected from icrash(1M), /usr/adm/SYSLOG and sysmon(1M), hinv(1M), versions(1M), and gfxinfo(1G). All aspects of availmon operation are fully configurable.
You can choose to participate in a system availability database that assists Silicon Graphics support in providing reliable service. All availability and diagnostic data for cooperating systems will be maintained in an SGI database. Access to that database provides overall reliability data, and specific histories for individual participating systems. This is the primary function of availmon.