Preface
Oracle Hardware Certification Test Suite (Oracle HCTS) is an application that can be downloaded freely from the Oracle HCTS web site to certify your system for the Oracle Solaris Operating System (OS) compatibility. To use Oracle HCTS, your system should be installed with the Oracle Solaris OS and must be ready for use.
This book describes how to certify that your system hardware is compatible with the Oracle Solaris OS by using the Oracle HCTS application.
Who Should Use This Book
The Oracle Hardware Certification Test Suite 5.4 User Guide is for the independent hardware vendors (IHVs), system manufacturers, system integrators, system administrators, and end users who want to perform the following operations with their system devices.
Certify system hardware as Oracle Solaris platform compatible.
Certify network-related components such as Ethernet, NIC and WiFi card.
Certify serial I/O devices.
Certify storage devices such as SATA, SAS, SCSI, Fiber Channel, iSCSI, and FCoE card.
Certify the InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter (HCA).
Certify audio and video devices.
Certify the CD/DVD reader and writer.
Certify USB devices such as the USB CD/DVD reader and writer, USB keyboard, USB web cam, USB hard disk, solid-state storage device, and multimedia card reader.
Test CPU, memory, Suspend/Resume, network performance feature, storage performance feature and USB audio device.
Certify systems and components for the Oracle Solaris 11 OS.
Certify virtual platforms.
Certify tape drive devices.
Certify external storage devices.
The guide assumes that developers have sufficient knowledge about the Oracle Solaris OS.
Before You Read This Book
Before reading this book, you must be familiar with the following documents to get the release information of the Oracle Hardware Certification Test Suite (Oracle HCTS) application that you have downloaded.
If the Oracle Solaris operating environment is not installed on your system, see the installation manual specific to your system before you read this book.
How This Book Is Organized
Here is a list of topics that are covered by the Oracle HCTS User Guide.
Chapter 1, Getting Started With Oracle HCTS describes the general overview of the Oracle HCTS application and its benefits. It also explains how to configure test machines to create the Oracle HCTS environment.
Chapter 2, System Requirements describes requirements for installing and running Oracle HCTS and certifying the devices and systems for the Oracle Solaris OS compatibility based on the type of certification. It also includes the individual description of the certification type and the hardware and software requirements for the corresponding certification type.
Chapter 3, Installing Oracle HCTS discusses the procedure for installing Oracle HCTS and the other necessary configurations. It also includes the procedure to uninstall Oracle HCTS after the testing is complete.
Chapter 4, Working With Oracle HCTS provides information about accessing Oracle HCTS in the GUI mode and the CLI mode.
Chapter 5, External Storage Certification describes the hardware and software requirements, environment setup and certification procedure for external storage device.
Chapter 6, WiFi Test Environment Setup describes the software requirements and environment setup procedure for WiFi certification.
Chapter 7, Certifying the Virtual Platform describes the software requirements and the environment setup procedure for virtual platform certification.
Chapter 8, Manual Tests explains mandatory manual tests that are a part of certification tests. Although these manual tests are not included in an automated Oracle HCTS program, you must carry them out to certify your system component. Report test results to HCL auditing team, if necessary.
Appendix A, Tools in /opt/SUNWhcts/bin provides a quick reference to the tools that exist in the /opt/SUNWhcts/bin directory.
Appendix B, Suspend/Resume Checklist provides a checklist for user to record the Oracle HCTS Suspend/Resume test results.
Appendix C, Manual Network Configuration describes manual network configuration on System Under Tests (SUT) and Test Manager (TM).
Related Documentation
Refer the online help if you are using the graphical user interface (GUI) of Oracle HCTS for certification.
Refer to the man pages for the commands hctscli and hctsclid if you want to use the command line interface (CLI) of Oracle HCTS.
Typographic Conventions
The following table describes the typographic conventions that are used in this book.
Table P-1 Typographic Conventions
Typeface |
Meaning |
Example |
|---|---|---|
AaBbCc123 |
The names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output |
Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% you have mail. |
AaBbCc123 |
What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output |
machine_name% su Password: |
aabbcc123 |
Placeholder: replace with a real name or value |
The command to remove a file is rm filename. |
AaBbCc123 |
Book titles, new terms, and terms to be emphasized |
Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. A cache is a copy that is stored locally. Do not save the file. Note: Some emphasized items appear bold online. |
Shell Prompts in Command Examples
The following table shows the default UNIX system prompt and superuser prompt for shells that are included in the Oracle Solaris OS. Note that the default system prompt that is displayed in command examples varies, depending on the Oracle Solaris release.
Table P-2 Shell Prompts
Shell |
Prompt |
|---|---|
Bash shell, Korn shell, and Bourne shell |
$ |
Bash shell, Korn shell, and Bourne shell for superuser |
# |
C shell |
machine_name% |
C shell for superuser |
machine_name# |
