OS X Diagnostic software for commercial use?

Hello! I work as a computer technician, and though we primarily service Windows machines, we get some Macs, and I'm currently one of only two Mac technicians on staff. I use DiskWarrior frequently on my own machines and my family's, but a glance at its license shows that commercial use is forbidden.
Besides the obvious Apple-provided utilities, what are some software programs available with commercial licensing options?
I know of  Micromat TechTool Pro, but far as I know, it's not recommended for Mountain Lion.
I'm specifically looking for disk tools - filesystem checkers, directory rebuilders, integrity checking, surface or bad block scanning kind of programs. Just want to see what's out there, since many programs are not available commercially, and the higher-ups are extremely hesitant to approve freeware utilities.
I don't make the rules, I just follow them...and I fix Macs, but I'm just a bit limited is all.
Thanks in advance for your input or ideas!

I suppose it's within the terms of their license agreement to suggest customers purchase a license for the downloadable version and then simply use their new license key to activate a not-yet-licensed copy in their name. This sounds ridiculous, but despite working for a major electronics retailer, I consistently have to apologize to people for our slow and unreliable corporate-provided internet. Put it this way - we can't run Internet Recovery on a customer's Mac because it times out 100% of the time. So downloading the DVD image for DiskWarrior over and over again is probably not the best approach.
It's perfectly within our "SOP" to use tools the customer already has, provided they're approved to begin with (e.g. use their existing anti-virus software, etc) - but this rarely happens because people tend to come to us because they DON'T have the tools already! An additional $100 charge wouldn't be too attractive, especially if we can't completely guarantee the disk will be recoverable after all. Data recovery services start at over twice that price, though, so it's a thought.
I see DiskWarrior mentioned in every reply. Yes, I know about it. Very, very well. It's right in my first post! It's saved me and several family members in the past. Technically, I DO actually own their hard drives, since I buy all our technology stuff and it ends up registered to me.
I've had nothing but trouble with Drive Genius on ML, though I think I have version 3,12 and that may not be the latest. It crashed all the time when doing defragmentation and volume rebuilds, even bad block scans, and let's be honest, a disk utility/recovery/repair program that crashes unpredictably is unacceptable. But again, that's just on ML.
I'll have to see about TechTool's latest version licensing. Currently, the higher-ups have approved version 5...which is really, really out-dated at this point. We need something to test physical disk integrity on Mac drives, since currently we can only use software provided by the drive manufacturer (e.g. SeaTools) and those don't always have a Mac build.
Thanks for the tips thus far! I'll look into that Onyx program as well!

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