About diagnostic levels – Sun Microsystems SUN FIRE 280R User Manual

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Chapter 6

Diagnostics, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting

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About Diagnostic Levels

Four different levels of diagnostic testing are available for power-on self-test (POST)
and OpenBoot Diagnostics control. The level of testing performed is based on the
setting of the OpenBoot PROM configuration variable

diag-level

, as follows:

off

— Either no testing or initialization only

min

— Fast, minimum level of testing (the default setting)

max

— Extensive and time-consuming testing

menus

— POST runs to completion, and then brings up the following POST

menu, which you can use to run individual power-on self-tests

For instructions on how to set the level of diagnostic testing, see “How to Set the
Diagnostics Level” on page 186.
Note that if the

diag-level

setting is

menus

,

OpenBoot Diagnostics uses the setting

min

or

max

, depending on the test performed.

You can also use RSC to temporarily set the boot mode for a reboot that occurs
within 10 minutes. Using RSC to set the boot mode is similar to using L1-N key
combinations on non-USB Sun keyboards (the Sun Fire 280R server uses a USB
keyboard). See the Sun Remote System Control (RSC) User’s Guide for information
about the

bootmode

and

rscadm bootmode

commands.

{0} 0 Return

{0} 1 Run all Tests in this Menu

{0} 2 Change Test Control Flags

{0} 3 * Reset Menu

{0} 4 * CPU Tests

{0} 5 * Ecache Tests

{0} 6 * Memory Tests

{0} 7 * Schizo Tests

{0} 8 * RIO Tests

{0} 9 * Estar Test (UP only)

{0} a * ECC Tests

{0} b * MP Tests

{0} c * BIST

{0} d * System Frequency and CPU Ratio

{0} e * I2C/Fan/Temperature/Smart card

{0} f * Run POST

{0} 10 * Return to OBP

{0}Selection:

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