Artesyn ViewCheck on ATCA-7370 Installation and Use (April 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 CPU temperature, 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 CPU temperature, 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 29 .
For more information on commands supported for InService and OOS, refer Commands
Execution on page 51 .
1.2 ViewCheck Access Methods
This section explains the different methods to access ViewCheck services on the Artesyn ATCA
blades.