Test for crash dump capability
- Last UpdatedJan 13, 2023
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- PI System
- PI Server
You can raise operating system exception (crash) to test the crash dump capability of the installed just-in-time debugger.
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Navigate to the PI\adm directory.
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Type:
pidiag -crash
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Debuggers, including Dr. Watson, rely on debug symbols to translate code addresses to line numbers and meaningful text. AVEVA™ PI System™ installs these symbols in %SystemRoot%\Symbols\exe directory where SystemRoot is typically C:\Windows. The system environment variable, _NT_SYMBOLS_PATH, must include this full path. On a crash, if this path is not included in _NT_SYMBOLS_PATH the crash symbols will not be correctly interpreted.