Running The Diagnostic Programs - IBM System x3350 Type 4192 Problem Determination And Service Manual

v Vital product data, firmware, and basic input/output system (BIOS)
v Drive health information
v LSI RAID and controller configuration
The DSA diagnostic programs can also provide diagnostics for the following system
components, if they are installed in the system:
v BroadCom Ethernet controller
v Optical (CD or DVD) drives
v Hard disk drives
v LSI 1064e/1078e SAS RAID controller
v Remote Supervisor Adapter
v Baseboard management controller
v Memory
v Microprocessor
The diagnostic programs create a merged log, called the DSA error log, that
includes events from all collected logs. You can output all of the collected XML file
that you can send to the IBM service and support, view the information locally
through a generated text report file, or copy the log to a removable media and view
the log from a Web browser. See "Running the diagnostic programs" for more
information.
Make sure that the latest version of the diagnostic programs is installed. To
download the latest version of the diagnostic programs complete the following
steps:
Note: Changes are made periodically to the IBM Web site. The actual procedure
might vary slightly from what is described in this document.
1. Go to http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/.
2. Under Product support, click System x.
3. Under popular links, click Software and device drivers.
4. Click Dynamic System Analysis (DSA).
For additional information about tools for updating, managing, and deploying
firmware, see the System x and xSeries Tools Center at http://
publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/toolsctr/v1r0/index.jsp.

Running the diagnostic programs

Important:The DSA diagnostic programs do not support USB CD-ROM drives. If
you run the DSA diagnostic programs while any USB CD-ROM drives are attached,
ignore any optical drive test results that are returned for USB CD-ROM drives. You
can also remove USB CD-ROM drives before you run the DSA diagnostic programs
to get accurate optical drive test results. To remove a remotely mounted USB
CD-ROM drive, you might have to unmount the remote disk through the Remote
Supervisor Adapter II Web interface.
To run the DSA Preboot diagnostic programs, complete the following steps:
1. If the server is running, turn off the server and all attached devices.
2. Turn on all attached devices; then, turn on the server.
3. When the prompt Press F1 for Configuration/Setup is displayed, press F1.
4. From the Configuration/Setup Utility menu, select Start Options.
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