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- Revision Check Revision Checking for all supported devices.
- FC Check Verify SAN Health with Fibre Channel Check.
 
Revision Checking [ Back ]

Storage Automated Diagnostic Environment's implementation of revision checking checks the software, hardware, and firmware revisons of all the user-selected components.

Revision checking is based on an updatable matrix, which is generated using the PatchPro database. The matrix provides distributed revision checking across the system. Solaris versions and component firmware versions are verified against the matrix.

To run a revision checking report:

  1. Select a host from the pull-down list of hosts.
  2. Select a device from the list of modules.
  3. Click Run Revision Checking.
  4. Click "Display Report List".

When Revision Checking has completed its run, a date link appears in the "Last Run" column.  

 

 
FC Check [ Back ]

The Health Check functionality verifies the health of physical Fibre Channel links by extracting and comparing link status information from all attached storage devices and switches, and then displaying error counters.

Use the Fibre Channel Counters functionality to retrieve a quick check of the system's transient noise. Run the FC Counters Check only on an idle system.

FC Check retrieves the Fibre Channel Read Link Status counter information from the available devices. This counter information is stored while the FC Check program begins the second pass. The second pass begins two minutes after the first pass completes its run. The results of both passes are then compared, and changes are displayed in the resulting table.

Note: FC Check does not validate connections. Use this functionality only to test for transient noise on the physical FC connectors and components. If a system exhibits excessive transient noise, it should be checked for proper cable connections. Diagnostics should then be run on the suspect components.

To run the Fibre Channel counters check, select a host from the [Select Slave Host] menu and click [Start FC Check].