How To Use Sunvts Software - Sun Microsystems Enterprise 250 Owner's Manual

How to Use SunVTS Software

Before You Begin
If your system passes the firmware-based diagnostics and boots the operating
system, yet does not function correctly, you can use SunVTS, the Sun Validation and
Test Suite, to run additional tests. These tests verify the configuration and
functionality of most hardware controllers and devices.
You'll need root or superuser access to run SunVTS tests.
What to Do
This procedure assumes you'll test your Enterprise 250 server remotely by running a
SunVTS session from a workstation using the SunVTS graphical interface. For
information about other SunVTS interfaces and options, see "About Diagnostic
Tools" on page 216.
You can also run SunVTS remotely from a Remote System Control (RSC) console. For
information about using the RSC with SunVTS, see the Remote System Control (RSC)
User's Guide.
1. Use xhost to give the remote server access to the workstation display.
On the workstation from which you will be running the SunVTS graphical interface,
enter:
% /usr/openwin/bin/xhost + remote_hostname
Substitute the name of the Enterprise 250 server for remote_hostname. Among other
things, this command gives the server display permissions to run the SunVTS
graphical interface in the OpenWindows™ environment of the workstation.
2. Remotely log in to the server as superuser (root).
3. Check whether SunVTS software is loaded on the server.
SunVTS is an optional package that may or may not have been loaded when the
server software was installed. For more information, see "How to Check Whether
SunVTS Software Is Installed" on page 237.
238 Sun Enterprise 250 Server Owner's Guide • June 1998