CN101872247B - Server monitoring device and method - Google Patents

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CN101872247B
CN101872247B CN2009101310926A CN200910131092A CN101872247B CN 101872247 B CN101872247 B CN 101872247B CN 2009101310926 A CN2009101310926 A CN 2009101310926A CN 200910131092 A CN200910131092 A CN 200910131092A CN 101872247 B CN101872247 B CN 101872247B
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The invention relates to server monitoring device and method. In the invention, the server monitoring device comprises a server substrate management controller, an input control unit and a sever monitoring screen, wherein the input control unit is coupled to a substrate management module in the server substrate management controller through a pin; the sever monitoring screen is coupled to the server substrate management controller; and the input control unit triggers the substrate management module through the pin so as to ensure that the substrate management module transmits management data to the server monitoring screen. Therefore, the server substrate management controller can be controlled by the control input unit.

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Server monitoring device and method
Technical field
The administrative mechanism of the relevant a kind of baseboard management controller of the present invention, and relevant especially a kind of server monitoring device and method of utilizing the control input block to come the monitoring server baseboard management controller.
Background technology
In recent years, along with the fast development of science and technology, the function that computer system possessed was then more powerful.For the operation situation of each assembly on can the effective monitoring motherboard, many motherboards manufacturer is convenient, and (Baseboard Management Control BMC) comes the various runnings of the interior supervisory system of supervisory computer casing with baseboard management controller.
Generally speaking, the method for supervising of baseboard management controller mostly is to utilize other application program, or obtains its information through the mode of Long-distance Control, uses the state of the present baseboard management controller of monitoring.Yet for most of users, needing to be familiar with in advance the application program or the mode of operation of Long-distance Control is the something that quite bothers.
Summary of the invention
In view of this, the present invention provides a kind of method for supervising and supervising device thereof of baseboard management controller, can under the state that electronic installation is not started shooting, come the monitoring substrate Management Controller by supervising device.
The present invention proposes a kind of server monitoring device, comprising: server baseboard management controller, control input block and server monitoring screen.The server baseboard management controller comprises substrate administration module and plural pin.The control input block then couples above-mentioned pin.The server monitoring screen couples the server baseboard management controller, to receive and video data.Wherein, the control input block sees through above-mentioned pin and triggers the substrate administration module, makes the substrate administration module that management data is sent to the server monitoring screen.
In one embodiment of this invention, above-mentioned control input block comprises first button, second button and the 3rd button.First button is in order to triggering first mode of substrate administration module, and then makes substrate administration module transfer management data to the server monitoring screen.Second button is in order to triggering second mode of substrate administration module, and then makes the substrate administration module switch selected project data.The 3rd button is in order to trigger the 3rd mode of substrate administration module, so that the substrate administration module is sent to the server monitoring screen with present selected project data.In addition, above-mentioned first button also can stop to transmit data to server monitoring screen in order to trigger the substrate administration module.
In one embodiment of this invention; Above-mentioned server monitoring screen sees through transmission interface and is coupled to the server baseboard management controller; This transmission interface can be wireless transport module, infrared transmission module, System Management Bus (System Management Bus; SMBus) and interior IC bus (Inter-Integrated Circuit Bus, I2C Bus) one of them.In addition, above-mentioned pin can be general input and output pin.
From another viewpoint, the present invention proposes a kind of method for supervising of baseboard management controller.At first, make first button of control input block trigger the substrate administration module, so that substrate administration module transfer management data make management data be shown in the server monitoring screen to the server monitoring screen again.Then, make second button of control module trigger the substrate administration module, to switch and selected project data.At last, make the 3rd button of control module trigger the substrate administration module, so that the substrate administration module is sent to the server monitoring screen with selected project data.
In one embodiment of this invention; After server monitoring screen display management data; More comprise when first button of control input block is pressed once more; Make first button of control input block trigger the substrate administration module once more, so that the substrate administration module stops to transmit data to server monitoring screen.
Based on above-mentioned, the present invention utilizes the control input block to trigger the substrate administration module of server baseboard management controller, makes the substrate administration module that management data is sent to the server monitoring screen.In view of the above; When electronic installation shuts down, then can come the Control Server baseboard management controller by the control input block, make the user can control the relevant information of server baseboard management controller like a cork; And need not see through Any Application, use the convenience that improves on using.
For letting the above-mentioned feature and advantage of the present invention can be more obviously understandable, hereinafter is special lifts preferred embodiment, and cooperates appended graphicly, elaborates as follows.
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Fig. 1 is the calcspar according to the server monitoring device of one embodiment of the invention.
Fig. 2 is the calcspar according to the server monitoring device of another embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is the calcspar according to the server monitoring device of further embodiment of this invention.
Fig. 4 is the server monitoring method flow diagram according to one embodiment of the invention.
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During tradition monitoring substrate Management Controller, be to use application program to carry out remote control, for the user who is unfamiliar with application program, quite inconvenience seems in operation.Therefore, the present invention proposes a kind of server monitoring device and method, improves convenience according to this.In order to make content of the present invention more clear, below the special embodiment that lifts elaborate.
Fig. 1 is the calcspar according to the server monitoring device of one embodiment of the invention.Please with reference to Fig. 1, server monitoring device 100 comprises server baseboard management controller 110, control input block 120 and server monitoring screen 130.Wherein, server baseboard management controller 110 comprises substrate administration module 111 and pin 113,115,117.In addition, control input block 120 is coupled to pin 113,115,117, and server monitoring screen 130 then is coupled to server baseboard management controller 110.
Above-mentioned control input block 120 can see through pin 113,115,117 and trigger substrate administration module 111, so that substrate administration module 111 is sent to server monitoring screen 130 with management data.At this, pin 113,115,117 can be general input and output (General Purpose Input Output, GPIO) pin.And; Pin 113,115,117 can be according to the operation of control input block 120; And trigger the different modalities in the substrate administration module 111 respectively, and make substrate administration module 111 carry out corresponding action, for example begin or stop to transmit action such as data to server monitoring screen 130.Number that it should be noted that pin can decide according to the mode of substrate administration module 111, and present embodiment is merely and illustrates, and practical application is not limited to 3 stitch.
And server monitoring screen 130 can be LCD (Liquid Crystal Display; LCD); It can see through System Management Bus (System Management Bus; SMBus), transmission interfaces 140 such as interior IC bus (Inter-Integrated Circuit Bus, I2C Bus), wireless transport module or infrared transmission module are coupled to server baseboard management controller 110.In view of the above, the managerial data that can display base plate administration module 111 be transmitted of 130 of server monitoring screens.
What deserves to be mentioned is that above-mentioned control input block 120 more can be connected to several server baseboard management controllers to carry out supervisory control action.For example, (Media Access Control, MAC) address afterwards, just can be monitored by control input block 120 with its identity of identification to utilize the inner medium access control of each server baseboard management controller.
In addition, it should be noted that in control input block 120, a plurality of buttons more can be set triggering each mode in the substrate administration module 111, below lift an example again and explain according to mode that substrate administration module 111 possessed.
Fig. 2 is the calcspar according to the server monitoring device of another embodiment of the present invention.Please with reference to Fig. 2, server monitoring device 200 comprises server baseboard management controller 210, control input block 220 and server monitoring screen 230.The function of server monitoring device 200 each member of present embodiment is same or similar with server monitoring device 100 each member of the foregoing description with the relation of coupling, so be not described in detail in this.
Be that with above-mentioned server monitoring device 100 differences the control input block 220 of present embodiment more comprises first button 221, second button 223 and the 3rd button 225.Wherein, first button 221, second button 223 and the 3rd button 225 couple with pin 213,215 and 217 respectively.It should be noted that in the present embodiment control input block 220 comprises three buttons, yet in other embodiments, the visual operating position of number of keys of control input block 220 decides, and does not limit at this.Below introduce the function of first button 221, second button 223 and the 3rd button 225 respectively.
First button 221 is in order to triggering first mode of substrate administration module 211, and then makes substrate administration module 211 transfer management data to server monitoring screens 230.And second button 223 is in order to triggering second mode of substrate administration module 211, and then makes substrate administration module 211 switch selected project data.Moreover the 3rd button 225 is in order to trigger the 3rd mode of substrate administration module 211, so that substrate administration module 211 is sent to server monitoring screen 230 with present selected project data.In addition, first button 221 also stops to transmit data to server monitoring screen 230 in order to trigger substrate administration module 211.
At this, the function of first button 221, second button 223 and the 3rd button 225 is a programmable, and visual situation is come the pairing function of definition push key.For instance; Can first button 221 be defined as " MENU " to trigger first mode of substrate administration module 211; Second button 223 is defined as " SELECT " to trigger second mode of substrate administration module 211, the 3rd button 225 is defined as " OK " to trigger the 3rd mode of substrate administration module 211.That is to say that when the user pushes first button 223 first, substrate administration module 211 will transmit in primary option menu to the server monitoring screen 230 and show; And when the user pushed first button 211 once more, 211 of substrate administration modules can stop to transmit data to server monitoring screen 230, and closed primary option menu.In addition, when server monitoring screen 230 had shown primary option menu, the user can press second button 223, in primary option menu, to switch selected project data.Afterwards, when project data that user decision is desired to choose, just can press the 3rd button 225 so that selected project data is sent to server monitoring screen 230.
From another viewpoint, when first button 221, second button 223 and the 3rd button 225 were pressed, it can see through first mode, second mode and three mode of pin 213,215 and 217 to trigger substrate administration module 211 respectively respectively.
Below lift an example prescribed server supervising device again.Fig. 3 is the calcspar according to the server monitoring device of further embodiment of this invention.Please with reference to Fig. 3, in the present embodiment, the function of server monitoring device 300 each member is identical with Fig. 2 server monitoring device 200 each member, repeats no more at this.Difference is that the control input block 220 of server monitoring device 300 can be touch control screen, and it comprises server monitoring screen 230, first button 221, second button 223 and the 3rd button 225.In the present embodiment, first button 221, second button 223 and the 3rd button 225 are for being arranged at the physical button of server monitoring screen 230.And in other embodiment, first button 221, second button 223 and the 3rd button 225 also can be three virtual keys in the server monitoring screen 230.
Then, in order more clearly to express above-mentioned notion, below the collocation said system is described each step of server monitoring method.Fig. 4 is the server monitoring method flow diagram according to one embodiment of the invention.Please be simultaneously with reference to Fig. 2 and Fig. 4; At first, shown in step S405, make first button 221 of control input block 220 trigger substrate administration module 111; So that substrate administration module 111 transfer management data to server monitoring screens 230 make management data be shown in server monitoring screen 230 again.
Wherein, The management data that substrate administration module 111 is transmitted can be the primary option menu data; It comprises sensor option, sensitive information record (Sensor Data Record, SDR) option, Field Replaceable (Field Replaceable Unit, FRU) option, LAN (Local Area Network; LAN) option, Basic Input or Output System (BIOS) (Basic Input Output System, BIOS) information option, startup/forbid a plurality of project datas such as baseboard management controller option.
For instance, when first button 223 is pressed, can see through first mode that pin 213 triggers substrate administration module 211.Wherein, first mode can be the demonstration primary option menu.Then, substrate administration module 211 just can begin to transmit management data to the server monitoring screen 230 of primary option menu.In other words, substrate administration module 211 will (for example, take out the management data of primary option menu in EEPROM), and be sent in the server monitoring screen 230 and show from storage element.
Then, in step S410, make second button 223 of control input block 220 trigger substrate administration module 111, to switch and selected project data.For instance, after showing primary option menu, can press second button 223 with via pin 215, and trigger second mode of substrate administration module 211.Above-mentioned second mode can be to be switched and selected project data.Afterwards, the just changeable selected project data of substrate administration module 211.
Say that further above-mentioned primary option menu comprises a plurality of project datas, and after server monitoring screen 230 showed primary option menu, server monitoring screen 230 can be chosen one of them project data in advance with anti-white mode.Afterwards, again by press second button 223 switch anti-white project data, to switch to the project data of desiring to choose.At this, when pressing second button 223, substrate administration module 211 just can carry out the switching of a project data.And also can be in the server monitoring screen 230 relatively switch anti-white project data of institute along with the switching of substrate administration module 211.That is to say that substrate administration module 211 sees through transmission interface 240 and comes the anti-white project data of institute in the update service device monitoring screen 230, make that the anti-white project data of institute in the server monitoring screen 230 is corresponding with the project data of substrate administration module 211 switchings.
Afterwards, in step S415, by the 3rd button 225 triggering substrate administration modules 211 of control input block 220, so that substrate administration module 211 is sent to the server monitoring screen with selected project data.That is, when the user presses the 3rd button 225, will trigger substrate administration module 211 the 3rd mode.Above-mentioned the 3rd mode can be and transmits selected project data.That is to say, after the user determines the item selected data, can press the 3rd button 225, make substrate administration module 211 that the detailed content of the project data that is chosen is sent to server monitoring screen 230 and show.
In addition, present embodiment server monitoring method more comprises the following steps.After server monitoring screen 230 display management data, if first button 221 of control input block 220 then triggers substrate administration module 211, so that substrate administration module 211 stops to transmit data to server monitoring screen 230 when being pressed once more once more.That is to say, when substrate administration module 211 is seen through pin 213 triggerings by first button once more, just can stop to transmit arbitrary data to server monitoring screen 230, according to this 230 picture displayed of closing server monitoring screen.
In sum; In the above-described embodiments; After will controlling input block and the server baseboard management controller be connected; The user just can see through the control input block and issue an order to the server baseboard management controller, makes the server baseboard management controller come the display management data by the server monitoring screen.Thus, utilize the control input block just can not carry out monitoring server baseboard management controller under any application program, shorten the preposition setup time of monitoring task according to this, and also quite convenient in the use.
Though the present invention discloses as above with preferred embodiment; Right its is not in order to limit the present invention, to have common knowledge the knowledgeable in any affiliated technical field, in spirit that does not break away from the present invention and scope; When doing a little change and retouching, protection scope of the present invention should define with claim and be as the criterion.

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1. server monitoring device comprises:
The server baseboard management controller, said server baseboard management controller comprises substrate administration module and a plurality of pin;
The control input block, said control input block couples said pin, and said control input block comprises:
First button in order to triggering first mode of said substrate administration module, and then makes said substrate administration module transmit a management data to server monitoring screen, and wherein said management data comprises a plurality of project datas;
Second button in order to triggering second mode of said substrate administration module, and then switches said substrate administration module and chooses one of them project data between a plurality of project datas; And
The 3rd button is in order to trigger the 3rd mode of said substrate administration module, so that said substrate administration module is sent to said server monitoring screen with present selected said project data; And
Said server monitoring screen, said server monitoring screen couples said server baseboard management controller, to receive and video data;
Wherein, said control input block sees through said pin and triggers said substrate administration module, so that said substrate administration module is sent to said server monitoring screen with management data.
2. according to the described server monitoring device of claim 1, it is characterized in that said first button also stops to transmit data to said server monitoring screen in order to trigger said substrate administration module.
3. according to the described server monitoring device of claim 1; It is characterized in that; Said server monitoring screen sees through transmission interface and is coupled to said server baseboard management controller, said transmission interface be wireless transport module, infrared transmission module, System Management Bus and interior IC bus one of them.
4. according to the described server monitoring device of claim 1, it is characterized in that said pin is general input and output pin.
5. server monitoring method comprises:
Make first button of control input block trigger the substrate administration module; So that said substrate administration module transfer management data are to the server monitoring screen; Make said management data be shown in said server monitoring screen again; Wherein said substrate administration module is arranged in the said server baseboard management controller of said server, and said management data comprises a plurality of project datas;
Make second button of said control input block trigger said substrate administration module, to switch and selected project data; And
Make the 3rd button of said control input block trigger said substrate administration module, so that the said project data that said substrate administration module will be selected is sent to said server monitoring screen.
6. according to the described server monitoring method of claim 5; It is characterized in that; After the said management data of said server monitoring screen display; More comprise when said first button of said control input block is pressed once more, make said first button of said control input block trigger said substrate administration module once more, so that said substrate administration module stops to transmit data to said server monitoring screen.
7. according to the described server monitoring method of claim 5; It is characterized in that; Said server monitoring screen is to see through transmission interface; Be coupled to said baseboard management controller, said transmission interface be wireless transport module, infrared transmission module, System Management Bus and interior IC bus one of them.
8. according to the described server monitoring method of claim 5, it is characterized in that the pin that baseboard management controller is used for being coupled to said first button, said second button and said the 3rd button is general input and output pin.
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