Re: Test suite of AS.

[Chris Kloiber <ckloiber redhat com>]

On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 06:16, jm w wrote:
> Have any one used Red Hat Certification Testing Suite?
> I want to test my Storage --raid 5, what is made of 3
> 146G ST SCSI hard drives.
> But i don'k know clearly  if the test suite will hurt
> my system? 
> My system:
>            RH EL 3--64bit,
>            4-way Itanium2  
>            8G SDRAM,
>            Raid 5.
> 
> 
> Any suggestions will be welcome.
> Thanks ~~

I have never seen nor heard of the test suite damaging hardware, but it
should not be run on a production server anyway. The test suite can
theoretically cause the machine to crash due to overheating, but that is
one of the things  you want to know if you are going to be running these
tests. (Back up or move your data off this machine, just in case.) The
test were designed for hardware manufacturers, but are made available
for end users who want to self-certify their environments for peace of
mind. There is some set up involved in the testing (like placing a
recent kernel-*.src.rpm in a particular place, or setting up network
services on an additional machine) to be done prior to the tests, so
please read the instructions first.

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