Monitoring method for server cabinet

Abstract

The invention provides a monitoring method for a server cabinet. The monitoring method comprises the following steps of: a cabinet management controller, cabinet backplanes and substrate management controllers are initialized; after initialization is finished, the cabinet management controller sends a starting message to the connected cabinet backplane; after the initialization is finished, the cabinet backplane sends another starting message to the connected substrate management controller; each cabinet management controller uninterruptedly transmits the real-time monitoring parameter of the server of each substrate management controller to the connected cabinet backplane in fixed time from a moment when each substrate management controller receives the starting message; and the cabinet backplane uninterruptedly transmits the real-time monitoring parameter to the cabinet management controller in fixed time from the moment when the cabinet backplane receives the starting message sent from the cabinet management controller. Therefore, for state parameters which are frequently sent, a polling way is not adopted, and instead, a one-way transmission way is adopted to save time for collecting data so as to be favorable for carrying out reaction according to data in real time.

Description

technical field [0001] The present invention is related to server cabinets, in particular to a server cabinet monitoring method. Background technique [0002] Due to the maturity of the computer industry and the advancement of network technology, server cabinets have been widely used in many industries, such as telecommunications, banking, and gaming industries. A server cabinet can house multiple server nodes. Each server node can be an independently operating computer system, including more than one central processing unit, motherboard, memory, hard disk, etc. However, these server nodes are densely placed in server cabinets, and special attention must be paid to heat dissipation and power management. [0003] Generally, the server cabinet is equipped with a rack management controller (Rack Management Controller, RMC), multiple server nodes (Node) are connected to the same rack backplane (Rack Backplane, RBP), and multiple rack backplanes are connected to Rack managemen...

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Problems solved by technology

However, in the aforementioned process of polling each server node one by one, the rack management controller not only needs to send the request first, but also needs to wait for the parameters that each server node replies one by one; in addition, if the server node is down or cannot return the parameter, the rack management controller must wait for a period of timeout (Time out)

In this way, it will take at least a few minutes to poll all

More importantly, the rack management controller performs control based on the data of a few minutes ago, and cannot process according to the real-time rack status. Therefore, the rack management controller cannot respond to various conditions in real time and quickly to improve in real time.

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