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Introduction

Dell™ PowerEdge™ Diagnostics Version 2.7 User's Guide

  Supported Operating Systems

  Devices Supported by PowerEdge Diagnostics

  Diagnostics Features


Dell™ PowerEdge™ Diagnostics is a suite of diagnostic programs, or test modules, that run on your system. These include diagnostic tests on chassis and storage components such as hard drives, physical memory, communications and printer ports, NICs, CMOS, and more. 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.


Supported Operating Systems


Devices Supported by PowerEdge Diagnostics

PowerEdge Diagnostics provides diagnostics for the following Dell-supplied hardware devices:

NOTE: Broadcom NIC tests are not supported in this release of PowerEdge Diagnostics.

Diagnostics Features

In addition to the testable devices listed in the section, "Devices Supported by PowerEdge Diagnostics," PowerEdge Diagnostics offers the following features:

This feature enables you to enumerate/discover all testable devices on your 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. 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 performed. See "Running Diagnostic Tests."

This feature allows you to view the help information of the various diagnostic tests and devices. To view a description of a diagnostic and/or a diagnostic test, select the device/test and click the Help button in the GUI or run the pediags --help command in the CLI.

This feature enables you to use a faster algorithm to conduct the test, if one is available for the specified test. See "Configuring the Test Execution Settings."

This feature enables you to save the system configuration and test results when seeking technical assistance. 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.

NOTE: In the CLI mode, PowerEdge Diagnostics allows for a maximum number of 999 passes.

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