
Setting Up Diagnostics 9
Setting up Dell PowerEdge Diagnostics
This section describes the process for setting up Dell™ PowerEdge™ Diagnostics.
Before You Begin
• Read the setup requirements and ensure that your system meets or exceeds the minimum
requirements.
• Read the PowerEdge Diagnostics
readme
file provided with this application. The
readme
contains
the latest information about PowerEdge Diagnostics in addition to information about
known issues.
Things to Remember
• PowerEdge Diagnostics is engineered to diagnose hardware problems on individual systems.
PowerEdge Diagnostics does not address problems that arise at the network level, unless the
problem resides with a NIC on a single system.
• The hard drive diagnostics are designed to run as low-priority background tasks to limit their effect
on other hard drive I/O activity. Because of their low priority, it is recommended that you limit
drive activity while running the hard drive diagnostics. The diagnostics may run slowly or even
stop while other hard drive I/O activity is running simultaneously. The diagnostics resume when
the hard drive I/O activity has decreased.
• PowerEdge Diagnostics runs concurrently with all other applications running on the system under
test. When you run these diagnostics, the additional system load is significant and will impact the
performance of your system and all running applications. If you are running critical applications
that require rapid response or that consume significant system resources, take appropriate
precautions before running these diagnostics. Close all nonessential applications and only run the
diagnostics during nonpeak hours of system use.
• Running PowerEdge Diagnostics simultaneously with the Dell OpenManage™ Server
Administrator Diagnostic Service is not supported.
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