The principles of the present invention extend to accessing results of network diagnostic functions in a distributed system. A chassis allocates resources for performing a network diagnostic function directly to requesting computer system. The requesting computer system communicates directly with the allocated resources to initiate the network diagnostic function. The network diagnostic test continues to execute even if the requesting computer system subsequently malfunctions. Collected test results are stored at the chassis such that any network connectable computer system can access the collected test results. A monitoring computer system (which may or may not be the requesting computer system) requests collected test results corresponding to the network diagnostic function. The chassis identifies appropriate test results and returns the results to the monitoring computer system.