C H A P T E R  10

Environmental Test (env3test)

env3test is an environmental control test for the Sun Blade 1000/2000, Sun Blade 100/150 and Sun Blade 1500/2500 workstation systems. Althought the central function of this test is regarding environmentals and hence common to all the platforms mentioned above, the exact behavior of the test is platform specific.

For Sun Blade 100/150 and 1000/2000, the test monitors the system by reading temperatures and fan speeds, as well as their limits. It reports whether the temperatures and fan speeds fall within system environmental condition limits. The MAX1617 temperature sensor keeps a set of hard limits for the maximum and minimum temperatures allowed within the system. If the temperature passes one of these limits, the system performs a hard shutdown to protect hardware components. env3test also checks against the environmental monitor daemon, which keeps its own limits. By reading these temperature values, the test reports the possibility of a failure of the system environmental feedback loop between the fans and the temperature sensors.

For Sun Blade 1500 and 2500, the test displays the temperature sensors and temperatures, and all the fans and their speeds in RPM. It has an option for logging this information. The test will fail if one or more fans are bad(don't spin), are disconnected or are weak. An appropriate error message will indicate a disconnected/bad case against a weak fan case.

For SunBlade 1500 and 2500, the env3test supports the exclusive mode and connectivity mode testing.

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(Sun Blade 100/150, 1000/2000) - ()If env3test fails to register temperature values, the system temperature indicators may be faulty.

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(Sun Blade 100/150, 1000/2000) - ()env3test will fail if a fan is bad or is disconnected or if it is weak. Please check corresponding error message for the exact case. For SunBlade 1500, the outtake-fan rpm cannot be monitored due to hardware limitation.()env3test will not run on operating environments earlier than the Solaris 8 10/00 operating environment.

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env3test Options

To reach the dialog box below, right-click on the test name in the System Map and select Test Parameter Options. If you do not see this test in the System Map, you might need to expand the collapsed groups, or your system may not include the device appropriate to this test. Refer to the SunVTS User's Guide for more details.

FIGURE 10-1 env3test Test Parameter Options Dialog Box (For Sun Blade 100/150, 1000/2000 and 1500/2500)

If the Log File option is set to True, the test logs two lines of information read from the system into the log file /var/opt/SUNWvts/logs/env3test.log. The first line is a time stamp. The second line is a list of names and the read values, as shown below:

The values for fan settings refer to the percentage of performance at which each fan is running. The system fan, for example, is running at 19% of its capacity. The temperature values are in degrees Celsius. The CPU in the above example is running at 81 degrees C.

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env3test Test Modes

TABLE 10-1 env3test Supported Test Modes

Test Mode	Description
Connection	Attempts connection to the device. Supported on SB1500/SB2500 systems.
Functional	Reports the received information to the GUI logging window in verbose mode. Supported on SB150/SB1000 systems.
Exclusive	Reports the received information to the GUI logging window in verbose mode. Supported on SB1500/SB2500 systems.

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env3test Command-Line Syntax

/opt/SUNWvts/bin/env3test [standard arguments] -o dev=driver_name, logging=true|false, fantest=enable, fan=All/intake-fan+outtake-fan

TABLE 10-2 env3test Command-Line Syntax

Argument	Description
dev=driver_name	Specifies the driver name for this test. The driver for the Sun Blade 1000 is max1617.
logging=true|false	Enables or disables the logging feature.
fantest=enable	Enable fan test.
fan=All/intake-fan+outtake-fan	Specifies fan to be tested (i.e. cpu-fan, intake-fan, outtake-fan).The keyword "All" specifies all the fan env3test probe found.

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Note - 64-bit tests are located in the sparcv9 subdirectory: /opt/SUNWvts/bin/sparcv9/testname. If a test is not present in this directory, then it may only be available as a 32-bit test. For more information refer to the SunVTS Test Reference Manual.

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