Hardware Diagnostic Suite; Obtaining The Latest Information; When To Run Hardware Diagnostic Suite; Requirements For Using Hardware Diagnostic Suite - Sun Microsystems Fire V240 Administration Manual

For detailed instructions, see the Sun Management Center Software User's Guide.

Obtaining the Latest Information

For the latest information about this product, go to the Sun Management Center Web
site: http://www.sun.com/sunmanagementcenter.

Hardware Diagnostic Suite

The Sun Management Center features an optional Hardware Diagnostic Suite, which
you can purchase as an add-on. The Hardware Diagnostic Suite is designed to
exercise a production system by running tests sequentially.
Sequential testing means the Hardware Diagnostic Suite has a low impact on the
system. Unlike SunVTS, which stresses a system by consuming its resources with
many parallel tests (see "SunVTS" on page 48), the Hardware Diagnostic Suite lets
the server run other applications while testing proceeds.

When to Run Hardware Diagnostic Suite

The best use of the Hardware Diagnostic Suite is to disclose a suspected or
intermittent problem with a non-critical part on an otherwise functioning machine.
Examples might include questionable disk drives or memory modules on a machine
that has ample or redundant disk and memory resources.
In cases like these, the Hardware Diagnostic Suite runs unobtrusively until it
identifies the source of the problem. The machine under test can be kept in
production mode until and unless it must be shut down for repair. If the faulty part
is hot-pluggable or hot-swappable, the entire diagnose-and-repair cycle can be
completed with minimal impact to system users.
Requirements for Using Hardware Diagnostic
Suite
Since it is a part of Sun Management Center, you can only run Hardware Diagnostic
Suite if you have set up your data center to run Sun Management Center. This
means you have to dedicate a master server to run the Sun Management Center
server software that supports Sun Management Center software's database of
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