when the boot process completes and control transfers to the operating system (os), the service processor can monitor operating system activity (see the set surveillance parameters option in the service processor setup menu). if os activity stops due to a hardware- or software-induced failure, the service processor can initiate a reboot/restart process based on the settings in the service processor reboot/restart policy setup menu and the os automatic restart settings (see the operating system documentation), if you are running in a full system partition. operating system surveillance is disabled in partitioned systems.

    if you are using the aix operating system, the menu item under smit for setting the restart policy is automatically reboot after crash. the default is false. when the setting is true, and if the service processor parameter 2use os-defined restart policy2 is yes (the default), the service processor takes over for aix to reboot/restart after a hardware or surveillance failure.