Owner's Manual

Introduction 7
Diagnostics Features
Online Diagnostics offers the following features:
• Discovering Devices
This feature enables Online Diagnostics to enumerate and discover
all testable devices on your Dell system. Enumeration occurs when
the application is launched. If your system hardware has changed,
restart the application to re-enumerate the devices on the system.
• Device and Test Selection
This feature enables you to select the devices on which you want to run
diagnostic tests and the tests you want to run on the selected device.
See "Running Diagnostic Tests."
•
Diagnostic Test Review
This feature enables you to review the selected diagnostic tests that you
want to run. See "Running Diagnostic Tests."
•Diagnostic Test Status
This feature enables you to view the status of the diagnostic tests that are
running. See "Running Diagnostic Tests."
• Diagnostic Test Results
This feature enables you to view the results of the diagnostic tests.
See "Running Diagnostic Tests."
•Help
This feature allows you to view the help information for the various
diagnostic tests and devices. To view a description of a device or a
diagnostic test, select the device or the test and select the
Help tab in
the GUI or run the
pediags --help command in the CLI.
•Quick Test
This feature enables you to use a faster algorithm to run a test.
See "Configuring the Test Execution Settings."
• Saving Configuration and Results
This feature enables you to save the system configuration and test results.
See "Using Dell Online Diagnostics."