Displaying the Host Card Diagnostic Results

Use the host card diagnostics to determine these statuses of the host card:

Boot-Level Diagnostics

The boot-level diagnostics run automatically and compare writes from and reads to one or more registers to the I/O chip of the host card.

Diagnostic results include these statues:

In addition, boot-level diagnostics might return these messages:

User-Initiated Diagnostics

User-initiated diagnostics are specific to the type of host card: 2-Gb Fibre Channel (FC), 4-Gb FC, InfiniBand, iSCSI, and others.

Diagnostic results include these statuses:

Diagnostic results are stored until diagnostics are run again.

If you try to retrieve the diagnostic results before they are complete, the remaining time for completion appears.

Related Links:

  • Starting Host Card Diagnostics