Artesyn ViewCheck on ATCA-9405 Installation and Use (November 2014) - Manual (Page 13)

Chapter 1
ViewCheck on ATCA-9405 Installation and Use (6806800S51F) 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
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 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, a service OS is provided with various Out of Service Diagnostics tests and
utilities. This Service OS has to be loaded and diagnostics utilities can be executed. To
execute these tests, CLI /XML access is provided.
Both InService and Out of Service are provided as binary images. For more information on
Binary images and installation procedures, refer
Installation of ViewCheck on page 21 .
In this mode, ViewCheck can execute all Out of Service Diagnostics (OOSD) tests along
with InService Diagnostics activities
For more information on commands supported for InService and OOSD, refer Commands
Execution on page 43 .
ViewCheck on ATCA-9405 is supported on P2020 service processor (SP) and two Cavium
OCTEON II packet processors (PP). Procedure to install and accessing ViewCheck on SP and PP
are different and are detailed in
Installation of ViewCheck on page 21 .