Is there any way to conclusively test a workstation, without a presently
installed operating system ?

I've done the standards, like setenv diag-switch true and ebooted, as well
as done test all
it seems ok, but is there anything more thorough ?

Thanks in advance

probe-scsi-all
watch-net-all

Are some I can think of.

Arjun

Andy wrote:
> Is there any way to conclusively test a workstation, without a presently
> installed operating system ?
>
> I've done the standards, like setenv diag-switch true and ebooted, as well
> as done test all
> it seems ok, but is there anything more thorough ?
>
> Thanks in advance

Andy <parkviewowner@internode.on.net> wrote:
> Is there any way to conclusively test a workstation, without a presently
> installed operating system ?

> I've done the standards, like setenv diag-switch true and ebooted, as well
> as done test all
> it seems ok, but is there anything more thorough ?

> Thanks in advance

You could boot off a CD and run SunVTS, either from the CD
(maybe?), copied onto the HD, or over a network mounted filesystem.
I've never tried that, but it should work, maybe with some messing
around. Some of the Solaris CD's may even have VTS available to run
already when you boot from CD.

You didn't tell us what kind of workstation you have. If it is x86, then
I don't know (maybe Google it). If it is SPARC, then

At the ok prompt in OpenBoot:

setenv diag-switch? true
setenv diag-level max
setenv verbosity max
setenv auto-boot? false
reset-all

And power cycle the workstation. In this mode, it may take several
minutes before you see any output on the workstation's monitor. There is
a lot of diagnostic information that is output through the workstation's
serial port during this time, though. Sun has some good information on
how to observe the output here -->
https://www.sun.com/products-n-solut...890-diags.html


If you do the above, you can capture the test results on the remote
computer and save it.

The above procedure is for a SunFire V890, but Sun's OpenBoot process is
fairly generic, AFAIK.

Andy wrote:
> Is there any way to conclusively test a workstation, without a presently
> installed operating system ?
>
> I've done the standards, like setenv diag-switch true and ebooted, as well
> as done test all
> it seems ok, but is there anything more thorough ?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>