Dell PowerEdge Diagnostics Version 2.9 User's Guide
Devices Supported by PowerEdge Diagnostics
Dell PowerEdge Diagnostics is a stand-alone suite of diagnostic programs or test modules for PowerEdge systems. PowerEdge Diagnostics allows you to run diagnostic tests on chassis and storage components such as hard drives, physical memory, and network interface cards (NICs.) You can use the graphical user interface (GUI) or the command line interface (CLI) to run diagnostic tests on the hardware that PowerEdge Diagnostics discovers on your system.
PowerEdge Diagnostics provides diagnostics for the following hardware devices:
PowerEdge Diagnostics offers the following features:
This feature enables PowerEdge Diagnostics to enumerate and discover all testable devices on your PowerEdge system. Enumeration occurs when the application is launched. If your system hardware has changed, restart the application to re-enumerate the devices on the system.
This feature enables you to select the devices on which you want to run diagnostic tests and the tests you want to run on the selected device. See "Running Diagnostic Tests."
This feature enables you to review the selected diagnostic tests that you want to run. See "Running Diagnostic Tests."
This feature enables you to view the status of the diagnostic tests that are running. See "Running Diagnostic Tests."
This feature enables you to view the results of the diagnostic tests. See "Running Diagnostic Tests."
This feature allows you to view the help information for the various diagnostic tests and devices. To view a description of a device or a diagnostic test, select the device or the test and select the Help tab in the GUI or run the pediags --help command in the CLI.
This feature enables you to use a faster algorithm to run a test. See "Configuring the Test Execution Settings."
This feature enables you to save the system configuration and test results. See "Using Dell PowerEdge Diagnostics."
This feature enables you to run the selected tests for a specified number of iterations. The minimum value is 1 and the maximum is 20.
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NOTE: In the CLI mode, PowerEdge Diagnostics allows for a maximum number of 999 passes. |
This feature allows you to specify the duration (in minutes) a diagnostic test should run. This feature is available only in the CLI version of PowerEdge Diagnostics.
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NOTE: Tests stop executing after they complete 72 hours or 999 passes, whichever occurs first. |
PowerEdge Diagnostics saves the diagnostic test results, in XML format, in an auto-generated file (result.xml). The file is available in the x:\dell\diagnostics\log directory(where x: is the system drive) for Microsoft® Windows® operating systems and in /var/log/dell/diagnostics/log for Linux operating systems. The maximum size of the log file is 512 KB. PowerEdge Diagnostics removes the log entries in a first-in-first-out (FIFO) fashion when the size of the log file reaches the upper limit.