Diagnostic Monitor user interface
Commands menu options

About the Commands menu

The following six commands are available in the Commands section of the Diagnostic Monitor.

Commands
Config	(print a list of configured PCI devices)
Default	(restore all options to default settings)
Exit	(exit diagnostics and return to firmware OK prompt)
Help	(print this commands list)
Options	(print current option settings)
Run <diag...diag> (run selected diagnostic)

Config command

The config command enables you to learn what Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) devices you have on your system and how they are configured.

The following example shows the config output for an F840 filer configuration:

Onboard:		(id=1166,0008)	NorthBridge
Onboard:		(id=8086,1229)	10/100 Ethernet
Onboard:		(id=1166,0200)	SIO/ISA Bridge
Slot	1:	(id=1127,0300)	Tape
Slot	2:	(id=8086,1209)	Quad 10/100 Ethernet
Slot	3:	(id=1077,2200)	Quad 10/100 Ethernet
Slot	4:	(id=1077,2200)	Gb Ethernet
Slot	5:	(id=1077,2200)	Gb Ethernet
Slot	6:	(id=1077,1280)	FCAL
Slot	7:	(id=8086,1229)	FCAL
Slot	8:	(id=10e4,0003)	FCAL
Slot	9:	(id=1011,000f)	FCAL
Slot	10:	(id=8086,1000)	Servernet
Slot	11:	(id=1275,0002)	NVRAM-3

Enter Diag, Command or Option:

Default and options commands

The default and options commands are closely related. They are compared in the following table.

Command

Enables you to...

default

Return all test option settings to default values, which are

loop no
status yes
stop yes
xtnd no
mchk auto

options

Display the current test option settings.

When test options are set to default values, the system displays the following output after the default command:

--Tests will stop on error
--Diagnostic looping disabled
--Status messages enabled
--Normal testing enabled
--Automatically select action on machine checks
 (Halt on most machine checks)

For example, when you modify the option to the setting you want at the Enter Diag, Command, or Option prompt:

loop yes

The system response in this example shows all settings but one are set to default:

--Tests will stop on error
**Diagnostic looping enabled
--Status messages enabled
--Normal testing enabled
--Automatically select action on machine checks
 (Halt on most machine checks)

Note
The asterisks before the option setting indicate a non-default value. The count option is not listed because it does not have a default setting.

Exit command

The exit command exits the Diagnostics program and returns you to the firmware OK prompt. Following this, you can reboot the system without power-cycling the machine.

If you need to stop a diagnostic session while it is running, you can use the Ctrl-C command.

Help command

Online help is available for the Diagnostic Monitor through the help command. The help command lists what is available through the diagnostics, commands, and options menus. It also identifies the version of Diagnostics that is being run.

Run command

The run command enables you to run several diagnostic sessions in sequence, using the run command followed by the diagnostic names you want to run. Each session runs without interactive test selection menus.

In the following example, you are running the mb (motherboard) diagnostic and the memory diagnostic:

run mb mem