BladeCenter diagnostics

The BladeCenter diagnostics are designed to report status, information, errors and suggest actions for resolving problems for a BladeCenter on a managed network. When the BladeCenter diagnostics are installed, they are displayed on the IBM Director Console Tasks pane. Drag the BladeCenter diagnostics task onto the BladeCenter as you would any other IBM Director task.

Prerequisites for performing actions for the BladeCenter

To use these diagnostics, the BladeCenter unit must be powered on. The BladeCenter unit must appear unlocked in IBM Director Console. Be sure to check the connections for all of the BladeCenter unit components to ensure power for the components.

I2C Bus Test Results

This test reports the status of the Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) communication of the management module, and blade server management hardware.

Midplane Connectivity

This test checks to see if the communication through the midplane is operational.

System Event Log

This test gathers the system event log information of the management module and stores it in the Events results.log. Each management module log contains information for each of the blade servers in the chassis and the events and errors that are logged for the management module.

Self-Test Results

This test checks three types of components of the BladeCenter unit when this action is performed. They are:

Light Path Diagnostics

The Light Path Diagnostics provide information about active LEDs on the BladeCenter chassis. The status of the following LEDs is queried:

When active Light Path Diagnostics LEDs are detected an event is generated by IBM Director. A description of the active Light Path Diagnostics LEDs is generated in the details information for the event. A description of each LED describes the following:

Status

The status of a performed task is indicated in the Job Execution History pane of the IBM Director Scheduler. When the subtask completes on the target system, the system name is displayed in the Complete section on IBM Director Console.

Results

When a BladeCenter diagnostics task is completed, an IBM Director event is generated. This file contains information about the task, and can be viewed using the IBM Director Event Log task. Use the View Diagnostics Results task to view the results. The results of an action can be found under the IBM Director Scheduler task by clicking the Jobs tab.

Test results can also be found in the Diagnostic Results.log file.


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