Owner's Manual

28 Using Dell Online Diagnostics
Using the Command Line Interface
To run the application in CLI mode, run pediags from
x:\<
install_directory>\oldiags\bin, where x is the drive where the application
installs. In Windows operating systems you can also click Start
→ Programs →
Online Diagnostics 2.x.y → Online Diagnostics CLI to run the application in
CLI mode.
CAUTION: Connecting or removing a USB or a CD/DVD device from a Red Hat
Enterprise Linux system, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, or VMware ESX while the
enumeration is in progress may cause the system to hang.
Primary CLI Commands
The following commands carry out the functions of Online Diagnostics:
• pediags --help
Displays short text help for CLI commands.
•
pediags --show all
Lists all device classes and tests available.
•
pediags <DEVICECLASS> --help
Displays text help for the < DEVICECLASS > you specify. For example,
the command
pediags modem --help displays help information for
the devices listed as modems and the different tests associated with the
modems.
< DEVICECLASS > is the package name of the device,
for example, network and cddvd.
• pediags <DEVICECLASS> --show [device|test|all]
[<Index Options>] [<Details Option>]
[fmt=lst|tbl|xml]
Displays the list of device classes, tests, or both. The default option is all.
The option displays both device classes and tests. You can specify index
options and choose the format in which you want the output displayed.
The parameters should follow the particular order in which they are listed
and format options are always the last parameter.
For example, the command
pediags network --show test test-
index=1,2,3 fmt=tbl
, displays the tests whose index numbers are 1,
2, and 3 in a table format.