Artesyn ViewCheck on ATCA-9405 Installation and Use (September 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 Command Line Interface (CLI) and Extensible Markup
Language (XML) interfaces provided via Blade Services Framework (BSF) service.
ViewCheck can provide both:
 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, and Network
errors. In addition, watching 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 21 .
For more information on commands supported for InService and OOS, refer Commands
Execution on page 45 .
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 in
Installation of ViewCheck on page 21 .
1.2 ViewCheck Access Methods
This section explains the different methods to access ViewCheck services on the Artesyn ATCA
blades.