Introduction
Cisco provides the following diagnostics utilities for Cisco UCS C-Series Servers:
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Cisco UCS Server Diagnostics Utility—The Cisco UCS Server Diagnostics Utility (SDU) helps the user to perform interactive offline diagnostics on all the server components and also helps to view server health. SDU logs are captured as part of the server tech support which can be shared with Cisco TAC for further analysis.
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Cisco UCS UEFI Diagnostics Utility—Cisco UCS UEFI Diagnostics Utility helps you to perform interactive offline diagnostics from UEFI shell on CPU, Memory, HDD, OS, Video, and UEFI Drivers. Test logs can be captured to a USB drive which can be shared with Cisco TAC team for further analysis.
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Cisco UCS UEFI Diagnostics Utility can be used when a server is rendered incapable of booting a UCS SDU due to any server hardware issue. UCS SDU is based on a Linux kernel and Cisco UCS UEFI Diagnostics Utility is a subset of the UCS SDU. If there are hardware errors which prevents the Linux kernel (UCS SDU) from booting up, you can use Cisco UCS UEFI Diagnostics Utility tests to identify the failed/failing component.
This user guide provides information about both the utilities. Both these utilities follow different release schedules. The information provided in this user guide applies to both the utilities unless specified otherwise.
This guide has the following chapters:
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Overview—Applies to both Cisco UCS Server Diagnostics Utility and Cisco UCS UEFI Diagnostics Utility
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Launching UCS Server Diagnostic Utilities—Applies to both Cisco UCS Server Diagnostics Utility and Cisco UCS UEFI Diagnostics Utility
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Understanding UCS Server Diagnostic Utilities User Interface—Applies to both Cisco UCS Server Diagnostics Utility and Cisco UCS UEFI Diagnostics Utility
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Viewing Server Properties in Diagnostics for the UCS C-Series Servers Utility—Applies only to Cisco UCS Server Diagnostics Utility
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Diagnostic Tools in Diagnostics for the UCS C-Series Servers Utility—Applies only to Cisco UCS Server Diagnostics Utility
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Viewing Logs in Diagnostics for the UCS C-Series Servers Utility—Applies only to Cisco UCS Server Diagnostics Utility
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UEFI Diagnostics Test for UCS C-Series Servers—Applies only to Cisco UCS UEFI Diagnostics Utility