Reference Guide

Available options for diagnostic checks (run)
Option Description
-h, --help Show the help message and exit.
--icw_hardware
Run the diagnostics to check for any hardware-related issues that may cause the initial configuration to
fail.
--network
Run the diagnostics to check the network configuration. To check the management network cabling,
specify --mgmt_cabling_check as an additional argument.
--workloads
Run the diagnostics to check whether an appliance contains any workloads such as storage or virtual
machines.
Available options for listing diagnostic information (list)
Option Description
--basic
List a high-level topology of the cluster and its state along with the appliances and nodes that are
found in the cluster.
--alerts
List the last ten active, unacknowledged alerts. Use the following additional arguments to list
further specific information:
● --closed—List the alerts that were closed in the last 24 hours.
● --acknowledged—List the last ten acknowledged alerts.
To view alerts, closed and acknowledged, in the last 24 hours, you can specify both these
arguments together. For example, --alerts --closed --acknowledged
--hardware
List all information that is related to the hardware. You can specify the following additional
arguments to list information about specific components:
● --fault_status—List information from the fault status register
● --inventory—List the hardware inventory
● --sensors—List sensor information
● --sel—List serial log (SEL) information
● --firmware—List firmware information
● --local_drive—List local drive Smartdata information
● --dimm—List DIMM information
--storage
List all information that is related to the storage. To view information about the RAID configuration
on the appliance, specify --raid as an additional argument.
--nvme_drive
List all information about the nonvolatile memory express (NVMe) drives in the appliance.
--network
List network configuration information. To view information about management network cabling,
specify --mgmt_cabling as an additional argument.
--icw_hardware
List all information that is related to the hardware checks during initial configuration.
--workloads
List information about the workloads, such as storage resources, hosts, and virtual machines, on
the appliance. You can specify the following additional arguments to list specific workloads:
● --jobs
● --sdnas
● --volume
● --hosts
● --host_groups
● --vm_vvols
--hypervisor
List diagnostic information for the hypervisor. This information includes information about the
vSphere Installation Bundles (VIBs) and changes that are made after the installation.
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