Artesyn ViewCheck on ATCA-7470/7475 Installation and Use (November 2014) - Manual (Page 13)

Chapter 1
ViewCheck on ATCA-7470/7475 Installation and Use (6806800S49E) 13
Introduction
1.1 Overview
ViewCheck™ is a comprehensive software service used to diagnose, manage, and monitor
Artesyn blades. The diagnostic utilities of ViewCheck help in identifying, detecting, and
locating hardware issues on a blade. ViewCheck also provides mechanism to monitor status of
CPU temperature, Storage devices, Ethernet counters and errors.
ViewCheck can be accessed locally using Command Line Interface (CLI) and Extensible Markup
Language (XML) interfaces provided via Blade Services Framework (BSF) service.
ViewCheck provides:
 InService Diagnostics
In this mode, the diagnostics service can run even while the blades are instantiated with
customer applications and are providing service.
ViewCheck can monitor key hardware parameters like CPU temperature, network
counters, and network errors. It can also be used for watching kernel critical errors logged
by various hardware devices and device drivers.
 Out of Service Diagnostics
In this mode, ViewCheck can execute all Out of Service Diagnostics (OOSD) tests along
with InService Diagnostics activities.
ViewCheck provides a command called switch-mode, using which you can switch from
InService to Out of Service and vice versa.
For more information on commands supported for InService and OOSD, refer Commands
Execution on page 39 .
In case the blades are upgraded from ATCA-7470 to ATCA-7475, FRU info needs to be
updated.