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FIGURE 10-1

Choosing a Tool to Isolate Hardware Faults

4. Do you intend to run the tests remotely?

Both Sun Management Center and RSC software enable you to run tests from a
remote computer. In addition, RSC software provides a means of redirecting
system console output, allowing you remotely to view and run tests—like POST
diagnostics—that usually require physical proximity to the serial port on the
system’s back panel.

System

boots

?

Run POST

yes

no

POST
failure

?

yes

no

Replace part

Run OBDiag

OBDiag

failure

?

yes

yes

no

LED lit

Fault

?

Disk

failure

?

yes

no

Software

problem

no

disk problem

Software or

system exerciser

Consider running

Replace part

Check disks

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