Starting the Host Card Diagnostics

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

Boot-Level Diagnostics

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

Basic Diagnostics

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

The basic diagnostics take approximately 30 seconds to complete.

Extended Diagnostics

The extended diagnostics are specific to the type of host card: 2-Gb FC, 4-Gb FC, InfiniBand, iSCSI, and others.

The extended diagnostics take approximately five minutes to complete.

Diagnostic Results

If the controller cannot perform the diagnostics, a message appears that indicates that the diagnostics could not start.

You can verify the status of extended diagnostics. The controller responds with one of these statuses:

When you check the status, this information appears:

Diagnostic results include these statuses:

Diagnostic results are stored until diagnostics are run again.

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