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

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Introduction
1.1 Overview
ViewCheck is a comprehensive software service that can be used to diagnose, manage, and
monitor Artesyn ATCA 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 CLI and XML interfaces provided via Blade Services
Framework (BSF) service.
ViewCheck can provide both:
 InService diagnostics
 Out of Service diagnostics
InService Diagnostics
In this mode, the diagnostics service can run while the blades are instantiated with customer
applications and providing service.
ViewCheck can monitor key hardware parameters like Network Counters, Network errors, and
in addition to watching out for 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 31 .
For more information on commands supported for InService and OOS, refer Commands
Execution on page 55 .
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 is detailed below.