9-6 Sun Ultra 45 and Ultra 25 Workstations Service and Diagnostics Manual • May 2006
9.4 Determining Which Diagnostics Tools to
Use
When a failure occurs, a message is often displayed on the monitor. Use the
flowcharts in
FIGURE 7-1 and FIGURE 7-2 to find the correct methods for diagnosing
system problems with Predictive Self-Healing tools, OpenBoot PROM, OpenBoot
Diagnostics, or other Solaris commands.
9.5 Traditional Solaris Troubleshooting
Commands
These superuser commands can help you determine if you have issues in your
workstation, in the network, or within another system that you are networking with.
The following commands are described in this section:
■ “iostat Command” on page 9-7
■ “prtdiag Command” on page 9-8
■ “prtconf Command” on page 9-9
■ “netstat Command” on page 9-11
■ “ping Command” on page 9-12
■ “ps Command” on page 9-13
■ “prstat Command” on page 9-15
Most of these commands are located in the /usr/bin or /usr/sbin directories.
# fmstat
module ev_recv ev_acpt wait svc_t %w %b open solve memsz bufsz
cpumem-diagnosis 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 3.0 K0
cpumem-retire 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0
eft 1 1 0.0 1191.8 0 0 1 1 3.3M 11K
fmd-self-diagnosis 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0
io-retire 1 0 0.0 32.4 0 0 0 0 37b 0
syslog-msgs 1 0 0.0 0.5 0 0 0 0 32b 0