USB, Storage, CD/DVD, floppy, audio, and video component
testing requires one test machine.
Hardware Requirements
To use HCTS, the test system must meet the following
hardware requirements:
Floating point — The test system
must have hardware floating point support.
Free space — The test system must
have at least the following amount of free space:
Swap space is at least 1/8 of physical memory
size (Minimum 512MB).
At least 4 GB of free space in any single
Solaris slice or a non-reserved hard disk larger than 16 GB.
Use the following command to check free space:
$ df -h
A non-reserved disk does not contains any slice
mounted to/, /usr, /var,
or /export/home*.
For USB device certification, the test system must meet
the following hardware requirements:
For USB hard disk and solid state storage device
certification, the
device to be certified must have at least 128 MB of free space.
For USB CD/DVD reader certification, a mixed-mode CD
must be utilized. You can use make_mixed_mode_cd
utility (Available under /opt/SUNWhcts/bin)
to create one mixed-mode CD that qualifies for helping the certification.
See the HCTS man page for more information.
For USB CD writer certification, a re-writable CD
should be inserted
in the drive under test. For USB DVD writer certification, any
supported re-writable media should be inserted.
For USB CD/DVD writer certification, a minimum of
600 MB of free space is needed in /export/home
directory for each device to be certified.
Caution - For
Storage certification, USB hard disk and solid state storage
certification, if the
test system contains more than one disk drive, any disk that does not
have any slice mounted to /, /usr,
/opt, /var,
or /export/home* is
formatted. All data on such
a disk is lost. During the test initialization process, any disk that
is
scheduled to be formatted is listed. The initialization process pauses
for 60 seconds
and prompts you to stop the certification if you do not want the
disk to be formatted.
Caution - For
CD/DVD writer certification and USB CD/DVD writer certification, the disc
inserted into the
writer will be erased during testing and all data on the disc will
be lost. Make sure you use a disc that does not contain any
data for this certification.
Software Requirements
The test system must be running the following software:
Any Solaris 10 release or Solaris Express Developer
Edition release can be
used with HCTS 4.0. The Solaris 10 6/06 or later release is
required if you want to certify CD-RW or DVD-RW devices.
If your system is already running the Solaris 10 OS or
the
Solaris Express Developer Edition OS, you might want to perform a fresh
reinstall
before you install the HCTS.
For USB device certification, the test system must meet
the following software requirements:
For USB CD/DVD reader certification and USB CD/DVD
writer
certification, Solaris OS 6/06 or later version must be installed on
SUT. Latest Solaris OS release is recommended.
HCTS
Before you download the HCTS 4.0 archive file, create a
download directory on
the test system. When you are prompted for the download location,
provide the
name of this directory that you created.
You can download HCTS from
http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/hcl/hcl/hcts/index.html#download.
One-System Setup
Make sure Xwindows
is running on the test system.
Installing the Solaris OS
For Solaris 10 installation details, see the Release and
Installation Collection for the
particular Solaris 10 release that you want to install. Start with the
Installation
Guide: Basic Installations. For Solaris Express Developer Edition
installation details, see Solaris Express
Developer Edition Installation Guide. For additional help with Solaris
OS installation, see the Solaris
OS Install web site.
Use the following command to verify that you are running
the Solaris 10
OS or the Solaris Express Developer Edition OS:
% cat /etc/release
If you are installing the Solaris 10 OS, you must make
the
following customization:
Select “None” for “Name Service”.
Select 'Initial Install” for “Upgrade or Initial
Install”.
Perform at least a Developer group installation. See
the Solaris 10
Package List for a list of what you get with different types of
installations. Select "Custom Install" and then select “Developer
group” or above.
For Solaris 10 installation or Solaris Express Developer
Edition installation, partition the disk
to satisfy the Hardware Requirements stated above.
You might want to back up your test systems and
reinstall the
Solaris OS before you install and run the HCTS.
The HCTS 4.0 archive is a tar file from which you need
to extract the contents. The name of the downloaded file is hcts.4.0.tar.gz.
Enter the following command to extract the HCTS contents:
$ gzip -cd hcts.4.0.tar.gz | tar xvf -
The contents are extracted into a directory called
hcts.4.0, which is placed in
the directory where you downloaded HCTS. This hcts.4.0 directory
contains the following files:
hcts.4.0.README
hcts.4.0.ReleaseNotes
SUNWhcts
package
Installing HCTS
Be sure to read the hcts.4.0.README and
hcts.4.0.ReleaseNotes documents in the /hcts_extract_dir/hcts.4.0
directory
before you install HCTS.
Installation verifies that no previous version of HCTS
is on your system. If
HCTS is already installed on this system, uninstall the existing
version.
Perform the following steps to install HCTS:
% su # /usr/sbin/pkgadd -d . SUNWhcts
Watch for any questions or error messages and respond
accordingly.
The HCTS installation performs the following actions:
Verifies that no version of HCTS is already
installed on the system.
Installs the package SUNWhcts
into the /opt directory.
Installs the x11perf
binary file into /usr/X11/demo/.
Installs the x11perf.1x
man page file into /usr/X11/share/man/man1
for the video test case.
Creates a /docs
directory within the /opt/SUNWhcts
directory.
Running the HCTS Application
If you are going to certify your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
for
compatibility with the Solaris OS, insert a mixed-mode CD into the
drive of
the test system. Use the make_mixed_mode_cd
utility to create a mixed-mode CD.
If you are going to test your CD-RW or DVD-RW drive for
compatibility with the Solaris OS, insert a CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, or
DVD-RAM disc
into the drive of the test system.
If you are going to test your floppy drive for
compatibility with
the Solaris OS, insert a writable floppy diskette into the drive of the
test system.
If you are going to certify/test a USB device, make sure
to
connect it to SUT and power it according to the instructions provided
in
the device's user guide.
If you are going to certify a USB CD/DVD reader, insert
a
mixed-mode CD before you start the certification. You can use make_mixed_mode_cd utility to
create
a mixed-mode CD. See HCTS 4.0 man page for more information.
If you are going to certify a USB CD/DVD writer, prepare
all
types of re-writable media supported by the device, certify them one by
one
and then submit all your results.
Using the GUI
To start the HCTS GUI, use the HCTS command:
$ /usr/bin/hcts
On the Test Manager system, if you are prompted to
select a
Mode for this machine, click the Test Manager button. HCTS will set up
the network environment to make this system an HCTS Test Manager System.
On the System Under Test, if you are prompted to select
a
Mode for this machine, click the System Under Test button.
Click the Certification Center tab and then the
Component Certification tab. Select Storage
(Network and Serial testing require a Test Manager system as well as a
System Under Test). Click the Start button.
When testing is finished, click the Results tab and
click the Latest Certification
Result tab. Click the name of the test in the table to
view the detailed results for that test. Click the View Summary File
link
to view the summary of the results of all tests listed in the
table.
To test a component but not certify the component, click
the Certification Center
tab and then click the Component Tests tab. Select CPU/Memory, USB
Audio or
Floppy. Click the Start button.
To run other tests, click the Certification Center tab
and then click the
Custom Test Plan tab. Select the test you want to run. Click
the Start button.
Using the CLI
To start the HCTS command line interface, use the hctscli command. See the hctscli(1M) man
page for more information.
Enter the following command to run the storage
certification test suite:
# /usr/bin/hctscli certify Storage
If no device is specified for the certify storage
command, then all storage
devices are certified at the same time.
See the man page for the names of component
certification test suites that
you can run and more examples.
Note - After you
complete all testing, uninstall HCTS. Before you put the test systems
back into production use, you might want to reinstall your test system
to
its original configuration.
Global Options
In HCTS 4.0, there are three global options that you can
use
in GUI and CLI. These global options are:
Exit On Error - When this option
is set, HCTS exits immediately when any test case fails. The test
environment will not be cleaned.
Manual Network Setup - When this
options is set, user should
configure the IP addresses for the network interfaces to be tested
before starting the HCTS test. See the HCTS 4.0 man page for more
information.
Diagnosis - When this option is
set, a few DTrace
scripts run in parallel with test cases to collect information for
debugging. This option should only be used for failure analysis.
Certification with this option set is not qualified for HCL submission.
Custom Test Plan
The Custom Test Plan feature provides an interface for
creating test plans which
may provide additional failure diagnostics information. Custom Test
Plan results are not valid
for HCL submission.
Tunable Options permit the customization of various
predefined test arguments. By modifying the
values of these options, you can control the exposed runtime attributes
for the
Test Case operating on the associated device.
For more information, see the Custom Test Plan online
help page under
Certification Center > Custom Test Plan.
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