[How to] Install Online Diagnostics CLI in DEBIAN on Power Edge with SAS 5/6 or PERC 5/6

[Patrick_Fischer at Dell.com]

Install Online Diagnostics CLI in DEBIAN on Power Edge with SAS 5/6 or
PERC 5/6

As smartctl from http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ can not in every
case provide information
from harddisks behind a HBA- or RAID-Controller or perform a
S.M.A.R.T.-Test,
(see
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/docs/raid-controller_support.html),
a short description how to do this in DEBIAN on command line.

At first the actual DELL Online Diagnostic package is needed, which was
PowerEdge Diagnostics before.

http://ftp.us.dell.com/diags/

This is that not everything lying around somewhere

cd /root
mkdir onlinediags
mv dell-onlinediags-linux-actual_version.tar.gz /onlinediags

Unpack the package than

tar -xvzf *
ls
dell-onlinediags-actual_version.i386.rpm
srvadmin-hapi-actual_version.i386.rpm
srvadmin-ipmi-actual_version.i386.rpm
srvadmin-omilcore-actual_version.i386.rpm
license.txt
readme.txt
uninstall.sh
install.sh

Only the first file is necessary. In 64bit systems the 32bit libraries
are needed too, as also RPM for unpacking rpm files.

apt-get install rpm ia32-libs
rpm2cpio dell-onlinediags-actual_version.i386.rpm | cpio -id

cpio unpacks the RPM with all sub paths to
/opt/dell/onlinediags/oldiags/...
The folder oldiags with all files in, move to /opt/dell/onlinediags/.
After /root/onlinediags can be deleted.

Short test if diagnostic is starting

cd /opt/dell/onlinediags/oldiags/bin
./pediags --help
./pediags --show all

If you have a RAID-Controller with SCSI harddisks the drive self test
(DST) is performed with

./pediags raidctrl --run quicktest=true > results.txt

Or if you have a SAS/SATA-HBA or PERC-Controller to test all connected
harddisks

./pediags sasdevdiag --run test-index=all quicktest=true > results.txt

The test result are now in /opt/dell/onlinediags/oldiags/bin/results.txt
saved.

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