One of the primary advantages of embedded systems is their reliability. They usually run 24/7 ithout any need for maintenance, and that is what many mission-critical embedded applications require. Unfortunately, unanticipated problems can still happen and then it is of crucial importance to quickly determine what went wrong.

Advantech eSOS- An Emergency Secondary OS for System Recovery
This is a small embedded OS called eSOS stored inside the BIOS. In case of a main OS crash, the device will boot to this OS. eSOS will run pre-defined utilities and email the diagnostic results to the administrator.

H/W Diagnostic Utility : Diagnoses the CPU temp, fan, voltage, HDD, CF.
Email Utility : Saves the diagnostic result to a file and mails it to administrator.
Telnet / FTP Server : Provides remote connection and file upload space.
Configuration Utility : Network and e-mail address setting.

 
eSOS
eSOS
An Emergency Secondary
OS for System Recovery