User`s guide

96 NovaScale 4020 User’s Guide
Most individual screens displayed in the primary information pane have Help buttons.
Clicking a Help button causes the help that is related to that screen to be displayed in the help
window, with the help window appearing in the foreground.
If the Help window is minimized it can only be redisplayed by pressing the <F1> key or
clicking a Help button. If the Help window is not active and the <F1> key is pressed, the
About SMU screen is displayed in the information pane. In general, all keys described in the
section on local SMU keyboard support work for the help window as well as the local SMU
application container.
EFI Platform Diagnostic Tests
EFI Platform Diagnostic Tests allow you to quickly assess the server’s hardware status, view
test logs, and determine the server’s current configuration. You can run EFI Platform
Diagnostic Tests from within the EFI environment.
Starting the Application
Use the following steps to setup and run tests.
NOTE
You can also run this utility from the Resource CD. This causes the
utility to run in a RAM drive which means log files are volatile and will
need to be copied to write-able media if they need to be saved.
1. Boot to the EFI shell.
2. Create the following directory on the target drive such as a hard drive:
efi\service\diagnostics
3. Copy the distributed FieldDiags binary file (fielddiags.efi) to the root directory of
the target.
4. Run the following command to unpack and install the FieldDiags software:
fielddiags -d \efi\service\diagnostics
5. With your working directory on the same drive that contains the test software, type the
following command to load and run the tests:
\efi\service\diagnostics\fielddiags
As an option, you can include a relative pathname in the command, based on your current
working directory.
In addition to running tests, you can display system configuration information or the current test
log. To do either, highlight the appropriate option and press the <Enter> key.