3.16.2. Guidelines

On Linux, Listboards provides a logical board number and a physical board number, which is the number of the slots in the chassis. On Windows, it only provides a logical board number. The logical board number should be used when running any of the DM3 diagnostic utilities that require a board number.

Table 4 explains how board numbers are assigned based on the operating system and expansion card slots used.

Table 4. Board Numbers

Operating System	Data Bus	Board Number Assignments
Windows	PCI	Board numbers are dynamically assigned. Listboards prints out the logical board number along with the board's serial number. Use the serial number to physically identify the board on the PCI chassis.
	cPCI	See Windows PCI.
Linux	PCI	The physical board number is equivalent to the slot number of the board present on the chassis. This slot number is configured by setting the rotary switch present on the board.
	cPCI	Not available

Listboards will fail if you specify a board number that does not exist on the system.

On Linux systems, if no board number is specified, listboards will return the status of all boards in the system. Figure 23 shows sample output from running

listboards -c3

which retrieves the config ROM for slot 3.

Figure 23. Listboards Output on Linux

To use listboards on Windows, you must start the boards using the Dialogic Configuration Manager (DCM). Then invoke listboards from the Command Prompt window. Figure 24 shows the results of running listboards on a Windows system.

Figure 24. Listboards Output on Windows

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