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Hardware Verification Instructions

This section provides detailed instructions on how to verify hardware compatibility with CA AppLogic.

  1. Install any recent version of Linux (for example, CentOS 4.6 / 5.5) on the server.
  2. Get the list of PCI devices on the server and filter it by device type: # lspci | egrep 'Ethernet|IDE|ATA|SCSI'

    Example output:

    00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)
05:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05)

    The format is: bus:device.function controller_type:controller name

  3. Find each of the network and the disk controller devices in the provided list (for example, search for the string 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller to see if the first device in the above list is supported).
  4. Once found, run lspci -n and look at the vendor and device numbers for the devices that have the matching bus/device/function number (unfortunately older lspci versions cannot display both text and numeric device IDs).

    For example, you might see this in the text output: 05:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
    and this in the lspci -n output (note the matching PCI bus and slot 05:04.0): 05:04.0 Class 0200: 8086:107c (rev 05)

  5. Search for the device and vendor numbers in the above tables (e.g., in the above example, look for the string 8086:107c. You should find this line, meaning the device is supported: 82541PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller 8086:107c