Owner's Manual

10 Setting Up Dell Online Diagnostics

Setup and Diagnostic Requirements

Online Diagnostics must be set up on each managed system to run

diagnostics locally.

Managed System Requirements

• A minimum of 256 MB RAM

• A minimum of 40 MB free space on the system drive (

on Windows or

opt

on Linux.)

• A supported operating system installed on your Dell system. See "Supported

Operating Systems."

• Dell-qualified device drivers and firmware to run diagnostics on RAID

controllers, RAID-attached hard drives, tape drives, tape autoloaders,

and tape libraries. See the documentation that accompanied your device

for more information or access the latest drivers and firmware from the

Dell Support website at

support.dell.com

. For a list of the latest drivers

and firmware versions for RAID controllers, see "Diagnostic Dependencies

for Supported RAID Controllers."

Diagnostic Requirements

• You must be logged in with Administrator privileges to run Online Diagnostics.

• Table 2-1 lists the devices and the dependencies that are required for each

operating system to run Online Diagnostics. If these device dependencies

are not met, Online Diagnostics exhibits the default behavior described

in the table.