Functional Test Mode via Solstice SyMON

Solstice SyMON identifies a range of hardware and system status states quickly.

Solstice SyMON has an online diagnostic interface, so you can access SunVTS when running SyMON. In this case, Functional test mode does operational testing to find and isolate faults, while minimizing the impact on other applications and users.

When Functional test mode is accessed from SyMON, the system may be running critical production software. The tests are sensitive to this fact and usually try to achieve as much coverage as possible within the constraints imposed. In this mode, some of the test parameters, execution options, and some system level options are fixed (have preassigned values) that cannot be changed. This ensures that the system state is not violated by selecting an option or combination of options which could trigger unsafe actions.

Table 1-1 shows the default values of the test execution options in different modes.