Test Descriptions - Avaya Sun Fire V880 Installation & Maintenance

Test descriptions

The following table lists some of the OpenBoot PROM On-Board firmware test commands. Note
that for some commands, test results are displayed. For other commands, the ok prompt is
displayed when the test is finished.
Command
probe-ide
probe-scsi
probe-scsi-all
show-devs
show-disks
test-all
test devalias
watch-clock
watch-net
watch-net-all
Additional references: See Sun OpenBoot 4.x Command Reference Manual at the following
Sun documentation Web site for more information:
http://docs.sun.com
Avaya CMS Sun Fire V880/V890 Installation, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting
Displays the recognized V890 IDE DVD drive.
Displays the recognized disk drives and backplanes.
Displays the recognized disk drives, backplanes, tape drives,
and V880 SCSI DVD drives.
Displays all the devices known to the system directly beneath a
given device in the device hierarchy. When using show-devs
by itself, the command shows the entire device tree.
Displays all disk devices.
Runs a series of tests on the network and on hardware
components. The test may take several minutes to complete.
You can use Stop+A to stop the tests.
Runs the self-test method of the specified device. Use the
devalias command to display a list of device aliases that can
be tested. You must enter the full path name of the device alias
to run the test. For example, to test the DVD-ROM drive, enter:
test /pci@8,700000/scsi@1/disk@6,0:f
Tests the clock function.
Runs a loopback test, a transceiver test, and a packet
transmission test.
Runs a loopback test, a transceiver test, a packet transmission
test, and tests on the ethernet ports.
Description
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