ŸSave Changes to the Database

This option allows the user to save any changes made to the run-time options. Without saving the changes, any changes made are only applicable to that session of diagnostics (the default is no).

Display

Previous Diagnostic

Results

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note:

This

service

aid

is

only

available when

you load

the

diagnostics from

a

disk

drive

or a network. However, on

a

CHRP

system,

this

service

aid

is

available

when

you run the diagnostics in standalone

mode because

the results are

stored

in

the

NVRAM.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Each time the diagnostics produce a

service

request

number

(SRN)

to

report

a

 

problem, information

about that

problem

is logged. The service representative

can

look at this log to see which SRNs are recorded. This log

also

records the

results of

diagnostic

tests that

are

run

in

loop

mode.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When this service aid is selected, information on the last problem logged is displayed. The arrow keys can be used to look at information about previous problems.

This informationis notfrom the error log maintained by the AIX operating system.

The ASCII version of the Diagnostics Log is available in the

/etc/lpp/diagnostics/data/*.dat files.

Display Resource Attributes

This task displays the Customized Device Attributes associated with a selected resource. This task is similar to lsattrrunning-Ethe-l <resource> command.

Display Service Hints

This service aid reads and displays the information in the CEREADME file from the diagnostics media. This file contains information that is not in the publications for this version of the diagnostics. It also contains information about using this particular version of diagnostics.

Use the arrow keys to scroll through the information in the file.

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IBM B50 manual Results, Display Resource Attributes, Display Service Hints, Etc/lpp/diagnostics/data/*.dat files