Display Previous Diagnostic Results; Display Resource Attributes; Display Service Hints; Display Software Product Data - IBM pSeries 690 User Manual

-m Displays or changes the value of the Display Diagnostic Mode Selection Menu option.
-n Displays or changes the value of the Number of Days Used To Search the Error Log option.
Allowable values are between 1 and 60 days. 7 days is the default.
-p Displays or changes the value of the Display Progress Indicators option.
-s Displays all of the diagnostic run-time options.

Display Previous Diagnostic Results

Note: This service aid is not available when you load the diagnostics from a source other than a hard disk
drive or a network.
This service aid allows a service representative to display results from a previous diagnostic session.
When the Display Previous Diagnostic Results option is selected, the user can view up to 25 no trouble
found (NTF) and service request number (SRN) results.
This service aid displays Diagnostic Event Log information. You can display the Diagnostic Event Log in a
short version or a long version. The Diagnostic Event Log contains information about events logged by a
diagnostic session.
This service aid displays the information in reverse chronological order.
This information is not from the AIX operating system error log. This information is stored in the
/var/adm/ras directory.
You can run the command from the AIX command line by typing: /usr/lpp/diagnostics/bin/diagrpt
[[-o] | [-s mmddyy] | [-a] | [-r]]
Flag Description
-o Displays the last diagnostic results file stored in the /etc/lpp/diagnostics/data directory
-s mmddyy Displays all diagnostic result files logged since the date specified
-a Displays the long version of the Diagnostic Event Log
-r Displays the short version of the Diagnostic Event Log

Display Resource Attributes

This task displays the Customized Device Attributes associated with a selected resource. This task is
similar to running the lsattr -E -l resource command.

Display Service Hints

This service aid reads and displays the information in the CEREADME file from the diagnostics media.
This file contains information that is not contained in the publications for this version of the diagnostics.
The file also contains information about using this particular version of diagnostics.

Display Software Product Data

This task uses SMIT to display information about the installed software and provides the following
functions:
v List Installed Software
v List Applied but Not Committed Software Updates
v Show Software Installation History
v Show Fix (APAR) Installation Status
v List Fileset Requisites
v List Fileset Dependents
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