[Panicsel-developers] RE: About test suites for panicsel

[Cress, A. R <and...@in...>]

Guo Min,

Here are some ideas.  I hope this is what you are seeking.

testing the kernel patch:
   run pefconfig to set it up
   invoke dopanic and verify that:
       - the critical LED is on (visual)
       - the OS Critical Stop message is in the SEL  (via showsel after
reboot, or via DPC)
       - the SNMP message is sent  (check at the destination)
       - the correct action is taken (reboot, power cycle, or power down)
I guess not all of this can be automatically verified and some manual steps
are needed.

testing the utilities:
   - showsel
         -c clears log (run normal & note free space, then run -c, then run
normal again)
         -v just shows version (and free space)
   - pefconfig
         test options (various, see man page)
         One key thing that was a problem before was the LAN password (-P).
         Note that you can also clear the password with -P "" .
         Another thing that isn't obvious is extracting the SNMP destination
from the Linux /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf
         You need to edit the snmpd.conf file, hopefully this is documented
well enough.
         In order to test the SNMP alert functionality, you will have to run
dopanic as above.
         To test the LAN connections, you can use ISC console, or dpccli (a
UNIX utilitiy also from EST).
   - tmconfig
        For Langley-Tu (TSRLT2), only -r  & -s make sense
        For Langley-Pr (TSRLP2), TMode is supported in the firmware.
   - hwreset
        test each of the options:  -c -d -n -r -s -x

There are two utilities that are provided in the source, but are not
officially supported yet:
   sensor and fruconfig.
   sensor works ok, but fruconfig has a bug that corrupts the FRU/SDR
checksum, so don't run it yet.

Andy
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Guo, Min  
> Sent:	Wednesday, November 27, 2002 4:39 AM
> To:	Cress, Andrew R
> Cc:	pan...@li...; Wang, Frank; Xie, May
> Subject:	About test suites for panicsel
> 
> Hi
> 
> 	Thanks for your perfect work.
> 
> 	I am glad to make some contributions to the project about test
> suites,so could you please
> give me some requirements and suggestions about the format of test suites.
> 
> 
> 	Thanks
> 
> 
> Best Regards
> Guo Min 
> The content of this email message solely contains my own personal views.
>