Patent ID: 7793229

Claim:
A method comprising: opening a panel dump file, the panel dump file comprising system state information stored by a system maintenance processor in a multiprocessor system; displaying the contents of the panel dump file in a panel dump browser tool, the panel dump browser tool providing a graphical user interface through which a user can view contents of the panel dump file, the panel dump browser tool comprising an analysis window; monitoring user interactions with the panel dump browser tool; saving relevant information displayed in the analysis window to a summary report array, the saving being triggered by one of an automatic recording mode and a selective recording mode, the saving using the selective recording mode comprising: selecting a recording option on the analysis window and saving the relevant information in the summary report array when the recording option is selected, the relevant information comprising: state information of a memory job in an investigate memory job panel selected by a user when the analysis window is a memory job window; state information of a memory-mapped job in a specific input/output (I/O) panel selected by the user when the analysis window is a memory-mapped job window; interrupt summary in an interrupt summary panel selected by the user when the analysis window is a memory-mapped job window; search result in a search result panel when the analysis window is a search window; and sum file information in a sum file panel selected by the user when the analysis window is a sum file window; and displaying the contents of the summary report array in a report window.