Lenovo x3550 M5 - Dsa Editions; Running the Dsa Preboot Diagnostic Programs

DSAeditions
TheeditionsofDynamicSystemAnalysisareDSAPortableandDSAPreboot.
•DSAPortable
DSAPortableEditionrunswithintheoperatingsystem;youdonothavetorestarttheservertorunit.Itis
packagedasaself-extractingfilethatyoudownloadfromtheWeb.Whenyourunthefile,itself-extracts
toatemporaryfolderandperformscomprehensivecollectionofhardwareandoperating-system
information.Afteritruns,itautomaticallydeletesthetemporaryfilesandfolderandleavestheresultsof
thedatacollectionanddiagnosticsontheserver.
Ifyouareabletostarttheserver,useDSAPortable.
•DSAPreboot
DSAPrebootrunsoutsideoftheoperatingsystem;youmustrestarttheservertorunit.Itisprovidedin
theflashmemoryontheserver,oryoucancreateabootablemediasuchasaCD,DVD,ISO,USB,orPXE
usingtheToolsCenterBootableMediaCreator(BoMC).Formoredetails,seetheBoMCUserGuideat
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/LNVO-BOMC.Inadditiontothecapabilitiesoftheother
editionsofDSA,DSAPrebootincludesdiagnosticroutinesthatwouldbedisruptivetorunwithinthe
operating-systemenvironment(suchasresettingdevicesandcausinglossofnetworkconnectivity).It
hasagraphicaluserinterfacethatyoucanusetospecifywhichdiagnosticstorunandtoviewthe
diagnosticanddatacollectionresults.
DSAPrebootprovidesdiagnosticsforthefollowingsystemcomponents,iftheyareinstalled:
–Emulexnetworkadapter
–Opticaldevices(CDorDVD)
–Tapedrives(SCSI,SAS,orSATA)
–Memory
–Microprocessor
–Checkpointpanel
–I2Cbus
–SASandSATAdrives
–LSIcontroller
–Broadcomnetworkadapter
–FusionIOadapter
–IntelGPU
–NvidiaGPU
Ifyouareunabletorestarttheserverorifyouneedcomprehensivediagnostics,useDSAPreboot.
Formoreinformationandtodownloadtheutilities,gotohttps://support.lenovo.com/us/
en/documents/LNVO-DSA.
RunningtheDSAPrebootdiagnosticprograms
UsethisinformationtoruntheDSAPrebootdiagnosticprograms.
Note:TheDSAmemorytestmighttakeupto30minutestorun.Iftheproblemisnotamemoryproblem,
skipthememorytest.
ToruntheDSAPrebootdiagnosticprograms,completethefollowingsteps:
Step1.Iftheserverisrunning,turnofftheserverandallattacheddevices.
Step2.Turnonallattacheddevices;then,turnontheserver.
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