CN103685386A

CN103685386A - Method and equipment for determining positional information of calculation equipment in complete machine cabinet

Info

Publication number: CN103685386A
Application number: CN201210337311.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 刘洪梅; 陈国峰; 张家军
Original assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2012-09-12
Filing date: 2012-09-12
Publication date: 2014-03-26
Anticipated expiration: 2032-09-12
Also published as: CN103685386B

Abstract

The invention aims to provide a method and equipment for determining positional information of calculation equipment in a complete machine cabinet. Specifically, position determination equipment establishes or updates a first relationship of bus address information and node identification information corresponding to the bus address information of machine cabinet node in the complete machine cabinet; an equipment position request about target calculation equipment is sent through an address bus; an equipment identification response corresponding to the equipment position request is received through the address bus; the target equipment positional information of the target calculation equipment is determined according to the target node identification information and the positional information of the complete machine cabinet. Compared with the prior art, according to the target node identification information contained in the equipment identification response corresponding to the equipment position request received by the address bus and the positional information of the complete machine cabinet, the target equipment positional information of the target calculation equipment is determined, so that the effect of quickly and accurately positioning a server in the complete machine cabinet is achieved, and the problem of asset positioning of the complete machine cabinet is solved.

Description

For determining that computing equipment is at the method and apparatus of the positional information of complete machine cabinet

Technical field

The present invention relates to server technology field, relate in particular to a kind of for determining that computing equipment is in the technology of the positional information of complete machine cabinet.

Background technology

The develop rapidly of the Internet be unable to do without possess high-speed operational capability, the server of reliability service, powerful external data handling capacity for a long time.Yet, existing server asset management technology, conventionally before server does not enter machine room, distributed frame position, with guarantee server enter machine room added after, server just can obtain unique positional information, but for complete machine cabinet delivered product as a whole, can not carry out in advance the distribution of frame position, prior art cannot realize quickly and accurately the server in complete machine cabinet is positioned, and realizes the asset management of complete machine cabinet, especially, when server breaks down, affected the location efficiency of the positional information of server.

Summary of the invention

The object of this invention is to provide a kind of for determining that computing equipment is at the method and apparatus of the positional information of complete machine cabinet.

According to an aspect of the present invention, provide a kind of for determining that computing equipment is in the method for the positional information of complete machine cabinet, wherein, described complete machine cabinet comprises one or more fan boards and the rack node being connected with described fan board via address bus, described rack node is used for accessing described computing equipment, wherein, the method comprises the following steps:

X sets up or upgrades the first corresponding relation of the node identification information of bus address information corresponding described rack node with it in described complete machine cabinet;

Wherein, the method also comprises:

A sends the device location request about target computing equipment by described address bus, and wherein, described device location request comprises the target bus address information corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node;

B receives the device identification corresponding with described device location request by described address bus and responds, wherein, described device identification response comprises the target device identification information of described target computing equipment, and the destination node marking information of the described target rack node corresponding with described target bus address information of determining by described the first corresponding relation;

C is according to described destination node marking information, and the positional information of described complete machine cabinet, determines the target device positional information of described target computing equipment.

According to a further aspect in the invention, also provide a kind of for determining that computing equipment is in the location determining device of the positional information of complete machine cabinet, wherein, described complete machine cabinet comprises one or more fan boards and the rack node being connected with described fan board via address bus, described rack node is used for accessing described computing equipment, wherein, this location determining device comprises:

First is related to apparatus for establishing, for setting up or upgrade the first corresponding relation of the node identification information of described complete machine cabinet bus address information corresponding described rack node with it;

Wherein, this location determining device also comprises:

Send-request unit, for sending the device location request about target computing equipment by described address bus, wherein, described device location request comprises the target bus address information corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node;

Response receiving system, for receiving the device identification corresponding with described device location request by described address bus, respond, wherein, described device identification response comprises the target device identification information of described target computing equipment, and the destination node marking information of the described target rack node corresponding with described target bus address information of determining by described the first corresponding relation;

Target location determining device, for according to described destination node marking information, and the positional information of described complete machine cabinet, determines the target device positional information of described target computing equipment.

According to a further aspect of the invention, also provide a kind of computer equipment, comprised as the aforementioned location determining device in the positional information of complete machine cabinet for definite computing equipment according to a further aspect of the present invention.

Compared with prior art, the present invention receives by address bus the destination node marking information that the device identification response corresponding with device location request comprises, and the positional information of complete machine cabinet, determine the target device positional information of target computing equipment, realized and quickly and accurately the computing equipments such as server in complete machine cabinet having been positioned, solved the assets orientation problem of complete machine cabinet.And, the present invention also can be according to the first device location information of the equipment to be visited of determining, this equipment to be visited is carried out to the equipment operating instruction about this equipment to be visited that user submits to, thereby further improved the efficiency of the asset management of complete machine cabinet, promoted complete machine cabinet leading subscriber the management of computing equipment is experienced.In addition, the present invention also can offer the corresponding user of described Trouble Report request by the first device location information of the equipment to be visited of determining and the information corresponding with Trouble Report request about this equipment to be visited, thereby accuracy and efficiency that the computing equipments such as server in complete machine cabinet are positioned have further been promoted, improved the efficiency of the asset management of complete machine cabinet, promoted complete machine cabinet leading subscriber the management of computing equipment is experienced.

Accompanying drawing explanation

By reading the detailed description that non-limiting example is done of doing with reference to the following drawings, it is more obvious that other features, objects and advantages of the present invention will become:

Fig. 1 illustrates the complete machine cabinet system figure in the positional information of complete machine cabinet for definite computing equipment according to one aspect of the invention;

Fig. 2 illustrates the equipment schematic diagram in the positional information of complete machine cabinet for definite computing equipment according to one aspect of the invention;

Fig. 3 illustrates the equipment schematic diagram in the positional information of complete machine cabinet for definite computing equipment in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 4 illustrates the method flow diagram in the positional information of complete machine cabinet for definite computing equipment according to a further aspect of the present invention;

Fig. 5 illustrates the method flow diagram in the positional information of complete machine cabinet for definite computing equipment in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

In accompanying drawing, same or analogous Reference numeral represents same or analogous parts.

Embodiment

Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing, the present invention is described in further detail.

Fig. 1 illustrates the complete machine cabinet system figure in the positional information of complete machine cabinet for definite computing equipment according to one aspect of the invention.Wherein, location determining device 1 by address bus as I ²c bus and a plurality of fan boards are connected to fan board n as fan board 0, fan board by rack node via address bus as I ²c bus is connected with computing equipment, and final, each computing equipment in location determining device 1 and complete machine cabinet has been realized connection, to realize the inquiry to the positional information of each computing equipment in complete machine cabinet by address bus.At this, the fan board in Fig. 1, rack node or the corresponding numeral of computing equipment only represent the sequence number of its corresponding device, but not the Reference numeral of this equipment.At this, location determining device 1 includes but not limited to the cloud that network host, single network server, a plurality of webserver collection or a plurality of server form; At this, cloud consists of a large amount of computers based on cloud computing (Cloud Computing) or the webserver, and wherein, cloud computing is a kind of of Distributed Calculation, the super virtual machine being comprised of the loosely-coupled computer collection of a group.Location determining device 1 is controlled the ancillary equipment of this microcontroller for the microcontroller as complete machine cabinet (as used arm processor, 80C51 single-chip microcomputer etc.), as fan board, rack node, computing equipment etc.At this, described address bus includes but not limited to following at least any one: 1) universal serial bus, it includes but not limited to as I ²c, RS485, RS232 etc.; 2) parallel bus, it includes but not limited to as IEEE-488, PC bus, STD bus etc.At this, described computing equipment comprises that a kind of runs administrative software is to control the computer that network or Internet resources (disc driver, printer etc.) are conducted interviews, it can provide for the computer on network resource that it is operated just as work station, and it includes but not limited to as tower server, rack-mount server, blade server, cabinet-type server etc.

Those skilled in the art will be understood that above-mentioned location determining device 1, computing equipment and connection address bus are therebetween only for giving an example; other network equipments existing or that may occur from now on, computing equipment or address bus are as applicable to the present invention; also should be included in protection range of the present invention, and with way of reference, be contained in this at this.

For simplicity's sake, take a computing equipment is below described as example.Those skilled in the art will be understood that, location determining device 1 can with a plurality of computing equipment serial communications or parallel communications, by address bus, send the device location request about target computing equipment, wherein, described device location request comprises the target bus address information corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node; By address bus, receiving the device identification corresponding with described device location request responds, wherein, described device identification response comprises the target device identification information of described target computing equipment, and the destination node marking information of the described target rack node corresponding with described target bus address information of determining by the first corresponding relation of setting up or upgrading; According to described destination node marking information, and the positional information of described complete machine cabinet, determine the target device positional information of described target computing equipment.

Fig. 2 illustrates the location determining device 1 in the positional information of complete machine cabinet for definite computing equipment according to one aspect of the invention, wherein, described complete machine cabinet comprises one or more fan boards and the rack node being connected with described fan board via address bus, and described rack node is used for accessing described computing equipment.Wherein, location determining device 1 comprises that first is related to apparatus for establishing 11, send-request unit 12, response receiving system 13 and target location determining device 14.Particularly, first is related to that apparatus for establishing 11 sets up or upgrade the first corresponding relation of the node identification information of bus address information corresponding described rack node with it in described complete machine cabinet; Send-request unit 12 sends the device location request about target computing equipment by described address bus, and wherein, described device location request comprises the target bus address information corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node; Response receiving system 13 receives the device identification corresponding with described device location request by described address bus and responds, wherein, described device identification response comprises the target device identification information of described target computing equipment, and the destination node marking information of the described target rack node corresponding with described target bus address information of determining by described the first corresponding relation; Target location determining device 14 is according to described destination node marking information, and the positional information of described complete machine cabinet, determines the target device positional information of described target computing equipment.At this, described fan board comprises fan control board, and it,, for controlling fan, also can comprise bus expansion board, and it is for extended address bus, as passes through I ²c hub, I ²c repeater, I ²the device Jiang Yi road I such as C expander ²c-channel extends to multichannel I ²c-channel, as I ²c hub PCA9518 Jiang Yi road I ²c-channel extends to 5 road I ²c-channel; Wherein, on described fan board, also can signalization strengthen chip, to guarantee the I between position determining means 1 and described fan board ²the quality of C signal.At this, described rack node comprises as backboard and/or middle plate, in actual applications, can guarantee the passivity of backboard/middle plate, and controls the quantity that backboard/middle board management cable connects, and to guarantee the quality of signal transmission, guarantees the maintainability of cable simultaneously.Those skilled in the art will be understood that said fans plate and rack node are only for giving an example; other fan boards existing or that may occur from now on or rack node are as applicable to the present invention; also should be included in protection range of the present invention, and with way of reference, be contained in this at this.

Particularly, first is related to that apparatus for establishing 11 is by predetermined being connected as the hardware address between the location determining device 1 of microcontroller with described complete machine cabinet as devices such as computing equipment, fan board, rack nodes in the described complete machine cabinet of ancillary equipment, as the low and high level of the address pins of chip arranges etc., set up or upgrade the first corresponding relation of the node identification information of bus address information corresponding described rack node with it in described complete machine cabinet.At this, according to above-mentioned hardware address, connect, just can uniquely determine described bus address information, it can be stored in described complete machine cabinet in the register as the location determining device 1 of microcontroller.At this, described node identification information comprise as described in computing equipment as described in slot positions of machine cabinet id information in complete machine cabinet etc., its memory that can be stored in described fan board and/or described rack node is as E ²in PROM.For example, suppose to adopt hardware connection mode as shown in Figure 1, adopt I ² c bus 7 bit addressing modes are as shown in table 1, and wherein, data bit D7～D0 is slave addresses, and lowest order represents data transfer direction, and S represents initial signal:

Table 1

Suppose that node identification information is the rack Nodes access computing equipment 0 of nodel0, its corresponding bus address D7～D0 is 1010000, node identification information is the rack Nodes access computing equipment 1 of nodel1, its corresponding bus address D7～D0 is 1010001, node identification information is the rack Nodes access computing equipment 2 of nodel2, its corresponding bus address D7～D0 is 1010011, etc., first is related to that apparatus for establishing 11 sets up first corresponding relation of node identification information of bus address information corresponding described rack node with it of each computing equipment in described complete machine cabinet.

The mode that those skilled in the art will be understood that above-mentioned foundation or upgrade the first corresponding relation of the node identification information of bus address information corresponding described rack node with it in described complete machine cabinet is only for giving an example; other foundation existing or that may occur from now on or the mode of upgrading the first corresponding relation of the node identification information of bus address information corresponding described rack node with it in described complete machine cabinet are as applicable to the present invention; also should be included in protection range of the present invention, and with way of reference, be contained in this at this.

Send-request unit 12 is by sending the mode of the address of selecting slave to slave such as main frame, by described address bus, send the device location request about target computing equipment, wherein, described device location request comprises the target bus address information corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node.For example, suppose that send-request unit 12 passes through I after sending initial signal ²c address bus sends Frame " 10100111 ", and this Frame has comprised i.e. front 7 " 1010011 " of this Frame of the target bus address information corresponding with the corresponding target rack of target computing equipment node.

Those skilled in the art will be understood that and above-mentionedly by described address bus, send about the mode of the device location request of target computing equipment only for for example; other existing or described address buss of passing through of may occurring from now on send about the mode of the device location request of target computing equipment as applicable to the present invention; also should be included in protection range of the present invention, and with way of reference, be contained in this at this.

Response receiving system 13 receives the device identification corresponding with described device location request by described address bus and responds, wherein, described device identification response comprises the target device identification information of described target computing equipment, and the destination node marking information of the described target rack node corresponding with described target bus address information of determining by described the first corresponding relation.At this, described target device identification information include but not limited to as described in the IP address, MAC Address, equipment Serial Number SN etc. of target computing equipment.At this, the mode that response receiving system 13 receives the device identification response corresponding with described device location request by described address bus includes but not limited to following at least any one:

1) the consistent computing equipment of described target bus address information that the described device location request sending with send-request unit 12 comprises, according to the instruction that reports its target device identification information and destination node marking information receiving, reports described target device identification information to response receiving system 13.For example, suppose that send-request unit 12 passes through I ²c address bus sends Frame " 10100111 ", and this Frame comprises the target bus address information " 1010011 " corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node, I ²each slave in C bus all compares this 7 bit address code " 1010011 " and the address of oneself, by comparing, node identification information is that the rack Nodes access computing equipment 2 of nodel2 finds that its corresponding bus address " 1010011 " is consistent with the described target bus address information that the described device location request of send-request unit 12 transmissions comprises, computing equipment 2 thinks that it is just by host addressing, according to

be defined as transmitter, then carry out the instruction that reports its target device identification information and destination node marking information, according to described the first corresponding relation, inquiry obtains the destination node marking information nodel2 of the described target rack node corresponding with its target bus address information " 1010011 ", then to response receiving system 13 report described target device identification information as report its equipment Serial Number SN and as described in destination node marking information nodel2.

2) instruction of the target device identification information of the consistent computing equipment of described target bus address information that the described device location request that first response receiving system 13 sends by read requests dispensing device 12 comprises, as " get SN ", the direct memory at this computing equipment is as E ²in PROM, read the target device identification information of this computing equipment as equipment Serial Number SN; Then by first, be related to described the first corresponding relation that apparatus for establishing 11 is set up, according to described target bus address information, as according to instruction, " get ID " inquiry obtains the destination node marking information of the described target rack node corresponding with this target bus address information.For example, connect example, by address comparison, the rack Nodes access computing equipment 2 that node identification information is nodel2 finds that its corresponding bus address " 1010011 " is consistent with the described target bus address information that the described device location request of send-request unit 12 transmissions comprises, according to

respond receiving system 13 can read be stored in computing equipment 2 memory as E ²data in PROM are if the target device identification information of this computing equipment 2 is as equipment Serial Number SN; Then by first, be related to described the first corresponding relation that apparatus for establishing 11 is set up, according to described target bus address information, as according to instruction, " get ID " inquiry obtains the destination node marking information nodel2 of the described target rack node corresponding with this target bus address information.

Those skilled in the art will be understood that the above-mentioned mode that receives the device identification response corresponding with described device location request by described address bus is only for giving an example; other existing or described address buss of passing through of may occurring from now on receive mode that the device identification corresponding with described device location request respond as applicable to the present invention; also should be included in protection range of the present invention, and with way of reference, be contained in this at this.

Then, target location determining device 14 is according to described destination node marking information, and the positional information of described complete machine cabinet, determines the target device positional information of described target computing equipment.At this, the positional information of described complete machine cabinet comprise as: the Host equipment room information of the machine room that 1), complete machine cabinet was positioned at is as machine room title, machine room room number etc.; 2) positional information of described complete machine cabinet in machine room as the rack line number of complete machine cabinet in machine room and row number etc., as the positional information location=of complete machine cabinet (BJ Katherine Victoria+Room001,0101), for example BJ Katherine Victoria+Room01 represents that complete machine cabinet is positioned at Beijing Katherine Victoria machine room, machine room room number is the first row first case that 001,0101 this complete machine cabinet of expression is positioned at machine room.Those skilled in the art will be understood that the expression mode of the positional information of above-mentioned complete machine cabinet is only for example; the expression mode of the positional information of other complete machine cabinets existing or that may occur is from now on as applicable to the present invention; also should be included in protection range of the present invention, and with way of reference, be contained in this at this.Particularly, target location determining device 14 determines that the mode of the target device positional information of described target computing equipment includes but not limited to following at least any one:

1) according to described destination node marking information as ID, and the positional information of described complete machine cabinet is as location, determines that the target device positional information of described target computing equipment is as being expressed as (location, ID) by two tuples.For example, suppose described target computing equipment that described device identification response that response receiving system 13 receives comprises as the destination node marking information of computing equipment 2 be nodel2, and the positional information of the complete machine cabinet at these computing equipment 2 places is location=(BJ Katherine Victoria+Room001, 0101), target location determining device 14 determine this target computing equipment as the target device positional information of computing equipment 2 be goal-location=(location, ID)=((BJ Katherine Victoria+Room001, 0101), nodel2), be that target computing equipment target device positional information as described in computing equipment 2 is the complete machine cabinet of the computing equipment 2 the first row first case that is arranged in the machine room that Beijing Katherine Victoria machine room and machine room room number are 001 and the rack groove that cabinet No. is 2.

2) according to the target device identification information of described target computing equipment as described in the corresponding target rack of the target bus address information node of SN and this target computing equipment destination node marking information as ID, set up the corresponding relation of target device identification information and destination node marking information as (SN, ID), then the positional information based on described complete machine cabinet is if location and destination node marking information are as ID, determine that the node location information of this destination node marking Information ID is as ID-location, with the corresponding relation of setting up target device identification information and node location information as (SN, ID-location), be that target location determining device 14 is according to node SN, can determine the position of computing equipment in machine room on this node.For example, connect example, hypothetical target computing equipment equipment identification information as described in computing equipment 2 is SN=" 123xyz ", first target location determining device 14 can obtain the described target device identification information of computing equipment 2 and the corresponding relation of described destination node marking information as (SN, ID)=(123xyz, nodel2), and then be location=(BJ Katherine Victoria+Room001 according to the positional information of the complete machine cabinet at computing equipment 2 places, 0101), target location determining device 14 can determine that the node location information of destination node marking Information ID of computing equipment 2 is as ID-location=(location, ID)=((BJ Katherine Victoria+Room001, 0101), nodel2), then, target location determining device 14 can obtain computing equipment 2 shown in the corresponding relation of target device identification information and node location information ID-location as (SN, ID-location)=(123xyz, ((BJ Katherine Victoria+Room001, 0101), nodel2)), target location determining device 14 determine this target computing equipment as the target device positional information of computing equipment 2 be goal-location=(123xyz, ((BJ Katherine Victoria+Room001, 0101), nodel2)), be that equipment identification information is the complete machine cabinet of the computing equipment 2 of SN=" 123xyz " the first row first case that is arranged in the machine room that Beijing Katherine Victoria machine room and machine room room number are 001 and the rack groove that cabinet No. is 2.

Those skilled in the art will be understood that the mode of the target device positional information of above-mentioned definite described target computing equipment is only for example; the mode of the target device positional information of other existing or definite described target computing equipments that may occur is from now on as applicable to the present invention; also should be included in protection range of the present invention, and with way of reference, be contained in this at this.

Between each device of location determining device 1, be constant work.Particularly, first is related to that apparatus for establishing 11 continues to set up or upgrade the first corresponding relation of the node identification information of bus address information corresponding described rack node with it in described complete machine cabinet; Send-request unit 12 continues to send the device location request about target computing equipment by described address bus, and wherein, described device location request comprises the target bus address information corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node; Response receiving system 13 continues to receive the device identification corresponding with described device location request by described address bus and responds, wherein, described device identification response comprises the target device identification information of described target computing equipment, and the destination node marking information of the described target rack node corresponding with described target bus address information of determining by described the first corresponding relation; Target location determining device 14 continues according to described destination node marking information, and the positional information of described complete machine cabinet, determines the target device positional information of described target computing equipment.Those skilled in the art will be understood that " continuing " refers to that each device of location determining device 1 constantly carries out respectively the foundation of the first corresponding relation or renewal, the transmission of device location request, determining of the reception of device identification response and target device positional information, until this location determining device 1 stops foundation or the renewal of the first corresponding relation in a long time.

Preferably, location determining device 1 also comprises checkout gear (not shown).Particularly, whether checkout gear detects to meet by address bus and sends the request transmission trigger condition about the device location request of target computing equipment; Wherein, when meeting described request transmission trigger condition, send-request unit 12 sends the device location request about target computing equipment by described address bus, wherein, described device location request comprises the target bus address information corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node.

Particularly, whether checkout gear detects to meet by address bus and sends the request transmission trigger condition about the device location request of target computing equipment; Wherein, described request transmission trigger condition comprises following at least any one:

-enable first described complete machine cabinet;

-meet the predetermined described address bus that passes through to send the request transmit mechanism about the device location request of target computing equipment;

Newly-increased computing equipment in-described complete machine cabinet.

For example, when sending trigger condition, described request comprises while enabling first described complete machine cabinet, suppose that complete machine cabinet is for the new product of paying, when plugging in, when start is used, checkout gear judgement is satisfied sends the request transmission trigger condition about the device location request of target computing equipment by address bus; For another example, when described request send trigger condition comprise meet predetermined while pass through described address bus transmission about the request transmit mechanism of the device location request of target computing equipment, as according to polling mechanism, send-request unit 12 sends the inquiry request of the bus address information of query count equipment to each computing equipment in complete machine cabinet by some cycles, checkout gear judgement is satisfied sends the request transmission trigger condition about the device location request of target computing equipment by address bus; Also as, when described request sends trigger condition and comprises in described complete machine cabinet newly-increased computing equipment, when the computing equipment of the node identification information of the described rack node at the complete machine cabinet rack Nodes access information that is nodel12, checkout gear judgement meets by address bus and sends the request transmission trigger condition about the device location request of target computing equipment.

When meeting described request transmission trigger condition, send-request unit 12 sends the device location request about target computing equipment by described address bus, wherein, described device location request comprises the target bus address information corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node.For example, while supposing to enable first described complete machine cabinet, checkout gear detects and meets described request transmission trigger condition, and send-request unit 12 triggers and sends after initial signals, then passes through I ²c address bus sends Frame " 10100111 ", and this Frame has comprised the target bus address information " 1010011 " corresponding with the corresponding target rack of target computing equipment node; Or send-request unit 12 triggers the instruction of the bus address information that reads target computing equipment.

Preferably, location determining device 1 also comprises the first judgment means (not shown) and the first updating device (not shown).Particularly, the first judgment means judges whether to meet the first renewal trigger condition of upgrading described the first corresponding relation; When meeting described the first renewal trigger condition, the first updating device upgrades described the first corresponding relation.

Particularly, the first judgment means judges whether to meet the first renewal trigger condition of upgrading described the first corresponding relation; Wherein, described the first renewal trigger condition comprises following at least any one:

-change described fan board;

-change described rack node.

For example, when described the first renewal trigger condition comprises the described fan board of replacing, fan board 0 in the complete machine cabinet as shown in Fig. 1 is changed to any one or more damages in fan board n, and the first judgment means judgement meets and upgrades first of described the first corresponding relation and upgrade trigger condition; For another example, when described the first renewal trigger condition comprises the described rack node of replacing, rack node 0 in the complete machine cabinet as shown in Fig. 1 to any one or more in rack node n break down or damage and change, and the first judgment means judgement meets and upgrades first of described the first corresponding relation and upgrade trigger condition.

When meeting described the first renewal trigger condition, the first updating device upgrades described the first corresponding relation.For example, suppose as shown in Figure 1, when fan board 0 damages, change, as be replaced by fan board 0 ', its corresponding bus address information is " 1011000 ", fan board 0 by address bus as I ²the computing equipment 0 of rack node 0 access that C is coupled to computing equipment 2 does not damage, normal work, the computing equipment 0 of rack node 0 access connecting as this complete machine cabinet fan plate 0 ' of ancillary equipment to computing equipment 2 with in this complete machine cabinet, as the hardware address between the location determining device 1 of microcontroller, is not connected and changes, i.e. fan board replacing front and back its by address bus as I ²the computing equipment 0 of the coupled rack node of C 0 access to the bus address information of computing equipment 2 as I ²c0 to I ²c2 and node identification information thereof do not change as nodel0 to nodel2, the first judgment means judgement meets the first renewal trigger condition of upgrading described the first corresponding relation, and send-request unit 12 sends the device request about target computing equipment by described address bus, as send Frame " 10110000 ", this Frame comprises the target bus address information " 1011000 " corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node, fan board 0 ' comprises its bus address information " 1011000 " address information " 1011000 " with this Frame is compared, address is identical, fan board 0 ' thinks that it is just by host addressing, according to

be defined as receiver, response receiving system 13 read be stored in this fan board 0 ' memory as E ²the node identification information of the computing equipment in PROM, as read fan board 0 ' originally via I ²the computing equipment that C bus connects is as the node identification information of computing equipment 0 ' to computing equipment 2 ', the computing equipment 0 ' that discovery reads is inconsistent to node identification information and the node identification information in original described the first corresponding relation of computing equipment 2 ', with fan board 0 by address bus as I ²the computing equipment 0 of rack node 0 access that C is coupled is inconsistent to the node identification information of computing equipment 2, respond computing equipment 0 ' that receiving system 13 reads to the node identification information of computing equipment 2 ' and be respectively nodel0 ' to nodel2 ', and computing equipment 0 to the node identification information of computing equipment 2 is respectively nodel0 to nodel2, the first updating device writes fan board 0 ' by the node identification information in described the first corresponding relation, the memory that is about to fan board 0 ' as the node identification information nodel0 ' of the computing equipment in E2PROM to nodel2 ', change to as described in same bus address information I in the first corresponding relation ²c0 to I ²the corresponding node identification information of C2 nodel0 to nodel2, for another example, suppose as Fig. 1, when damaging, rack node 0 changes, as be replaced by rack node 0 ', its corresponding bus address information is " 1110000 ", the computing equipment 0 of the fan board 0 being connected with rack node 0 and 0 access of this rack node to computing equipment 2 does not damage, normal work, as the computing equipment 0 of the rack node 0 ' access in this complete machine cabinet of ancillary equipment to computing equipment 2 with in this complete machine cabinet, as the hardware address between the location determining device 1 of microcontroller, be not connected and change, be that the bus address information of the computing equipment of its access before and after rack node replacement is as I ²c0 to I ²c2 and node identification information thereof do not change as nodel0 to nodel2, the first judgment means judgement meets the first renewal trigger condition of upgrading described the first corresponding relation, and send-request unit 12 sends the device request about target computing equipment by described address bus, as send Frame " 11100000 ", this Frame comprises the target bus address information " 1110000 " corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node, rack node 0 ' comprises its bus address information " 1110000 " address information " 1110000 " with this Frame is compared, address is identical, rack node 0 ' thinks that it is just by host addressing, according to be defined as receiver, response receiving system 13 read be stored in this rack node 0 ' memory as E ²the node identification information of the computing equipment in PROM, as read rack node 0 ' originally via I ²the computing equipment that C bus connects is as the node identification information of computing equipment 0 ' to computing equipment 2 ', the computing equipment 0 ' that discovery reads is inconsistent to node identification information and the node identification information in original described the first corresponding relation of computing equipment 2 ', with rack node 0 by address bus as I ²the coupled computing equipment 0 of C is inconsistent to the node identification information of computing equipment 2, respond computing equipment 0 ' that receiving system 13 reads to the node identification information of computing equipment 2 ' and be respectively nodel0 ' to nodel2 ', and computing equipment 0 to the node identification information of computing equipment 2 is respectively nodel0 to nodel2, the first updating device writes rack node 0 ' by the node identification information nodel0 to nodel2 in described the first corresponding relation, is about to the memory of rack node 0 ' as E ²the node identification information nodel0 ' of the computing equipment in PROM changes to same bus address information I in described the first corresponding relation to nodel2 ' ²c0 to I ²the corresponding node identification information of C2 nodel0 to nodel2.

Those skilled in the art will be understood that the mode of described the first corresponding relation of above-mentioned renewal is only for giving an example; the mode of described the first corresponding relation of other renewals existing or that may occur is from now on as applicable to the present invention; also should be included in protection range of the present invention, and with way of reference, be contained in this at this.

Those skilled in the art will be understood that in specific embodiment, and first is related to that apparatus for establishing 11 and the first updating device can be modules independently mutually, also can integrate.

Fig. 3 illustrates the equipment schematic diagram in the positional information of complete machine cabinet for definite computing equipment in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention; Wherein, location determining device 1 comprises that first is related to that apparatus for establishing 11 ', send-request unit 12 ', response receiving system 13 ', target location determining device 14 ', second are related to apparatus for establishing 15 ', acquisition request device 16 ', primary importance determining device 17 ' and generator 18 '.Particularly, first is related to that apparatus for establishing 11 ' sets up or upgrade the first corresponding relation of the node identification information of bus address information corresponding described rack node with it in described complete machine cabinet; Send-request unit 12 ' sends the device location request about target computing equipment by described address bus, and wherein, described device location request comprises the target bus address information corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node; Response receiving system 13 ' receives the device identification corresponding with described device location request by described address bus and responds, wherein, described device identification response comprises the target device identification information of described target computing equipment, and the destination node marking information of the described target rack node corresponding with described target bus address information of determining by described the first corresponding relation; Target location determining device 14 ' is according to described destination node marking information, and the positional information of described complete machine cabinet, determines the target device positional information of described target computing equipment; Second is related to that apparatus for establishing 15 ', according to described target device positional information and described target device identification information, sets up or upgrade the second corresponding relation of described computing equipment and its device location information; Acquisition request device 16 ' obtains the device location request about computing equipment to be visited that user submits to, and wherein, described device location request comprises the first equipment identification information of described computing equipment to be visited; Primary importance determining device 17 ', according to described the second corresponding relation, is determined first device location information corresponding with described the first equipment identification information; Generator 18 ' offers described user by described the first device location information.At this, first be related to apparatus for establishing 11 ', send-request unit 12 ', response receiving system 13 ', target location determining device 14 ' and Fig. 2 the corresponding intrument in corresponding embodiment same or similar, therefore do not repeat them here, and mode is by reference contained in this.

Particularly, second is related to that apparatus for establishing 15 ', according to described target device positional information and described target device identification information, sets up or upgrade the second corresponding relation of described computing equipment and its device location information.For example, the definite target computing equipment target device positional information as described in computing equipment 2 of hypothetical target position determining means 14 ' is goal-location=(location, ID)=((BJ Katherine Victoria+Room001, 0101), nodel2), and described target computing equipment target device identification information as described in computing equipment 2 that the described device identification response that response receiving system 13 ' receives comprises is SN=" 123xyz ", second is related to that apparatus for establishing 15 ' the described computing equipment of foundation and the second corresponding relation of its device location information are as (SN, goal-location)=(123xyz, ((BJ Katherine Victoria+Room001, 0101), nodel2)).

Acquisition request device 16 ' is by dynamic web page techniques such as ASP, JSP, obtains the search sequence of the equipment identification information that user inputs in device location information search column, the device location request about computing equipment to be visited of submitting to obtain user; Or, by based on various communication protocol, can provide the equipment of the device location information corresponding with described device location request to carry out alternately with other, the device location request about computing equipment to be visited of submitting to obtain user, wherein, described device location request comprises the first equipment identification information of described computing equipment to be visited.For example, user A has carried out about computing equipment to be visited as the device location request of computing equipment 2 on as PC by the subscriber equipment the client that device location information can be provided is installed, if the equipment identification information of the computing equipment 2 of inputting in the device location information search column in this client is as the search sequence of " 123xyz ", acquisition request device 16 ' passes through ASP, the dynamic web page techniques such as JSP, just get that user A submits to about computing equipment to be visited as the device location request of computing equipment 2, wherein, described device location request comprises that the first equipment identification information of described computing equipment to be visited is as " 123xyz ".

Those skilled in the art will be understood that the above-mentioned mode of obtaining device location request is only for giving an example; other existing or modes of obtaining device location request that may occur are from now on as applicable to the present invention; also should be included in protection range of the present invention, and with way of reference, be contained in this at this.

Primary importance determining device 17 ', according to described the second corresponding relation, is determined first device location information corresponding with described the first equipment identification information.For example, connect example, described the first equipment identification information that the described device location request that primary importance determining device 17 ' is obtained according to acquisition request device 16 ' comprises is as " 123xyz ", by inquiring about the second described the second corresponding relation that is related to apparatus for establishing 15 ' foundation as (SN, goal-location)=(123xyz, ((BJ Katherine Victoria+Room001, 0101), nodel2)), determine that first device location information corresponding with this first equipment identification information is as (BJ Katherine Victoria+Room001, 0101), be that equipment identification information is the complete machine cabinet of the computing equipment 2 of SN=" 123xyz " the first row first case that is arranged in the machine room that Beijing Katherine Victoria machine room and machine room room number are 001 and the rack groove that cabinet No. is 2.

Generator 18 ' is by dynamic web page techniques such as ASP, JSP or PHP, or the communication mode of other agreements, as communication protocols such as http or https, offers described user by described the first device location information, as this user's subscriber equipment, for user, browse.

Preferably, acquisition request device 16 ' also can obtain the equipment operating instruction about computing equipment to be visited that user submits to, and wherein, described equipment operating instruction comprises described device location request; Wherein, generator 18 ', according to described the first device location information, is carried out described equipment operating instruction to described equipment to be visited.

Particularly, acquisition request device 16 ' also can according to user by subscriber equipment as PC or at designated equipment as the equipment operating about certain computing equipment of carrying out on the server of the upper application module that equipment operating can be provided is installed, the equipment operating instruction about computing equipment to be visited of submitting to obtain user, wherein, described equipment operating instruction comprises described device location request.At this, described equipment operating instruction also includes but not limited to as carried out specific equipment operating instruction on designated equipment, for example, to certain computing equipment, send particular data set, unloading or loading or upgrade the designated module of certain computing equipment.For example, user A is by having carried out on the server the upper application module that equipment operating can be provided is installed about computing equipment to be visited as the equipment operating instruction of computing equipment 2, if the equipment identification information of the computing equipment 2 of inputting in the device location information search column in this upper application module is as the search sequence of " 123xyz ", then choose corresponding Search Results, by mouse or keyboard, carry out the equipment operating that upgrades virus investigation software, acquisition request device 16 ' passes through ASP, the dynamic web page techniques such as JSP, just get that user A submits to about computing equipment to be visited as the equipment operating instruction of computing equipment 2, wherein, described equipment operating instruction comprises described device location request, as as described in comprising the first equipment identification information of computing equipment to be visited as " 123xyz ".

Those skilled in the art will be understood that the above-mentioned mode of obtaining equipment operating instruction is only for giving an example; other existing or modes of obtaining equipment operating instruction that may occur are from now on as applicable to the present invention; also should be included in protection range of the present invention, and with way of reference, be contained in this at this.

Then, described the first device location information that generator 18 ' is determined according to primary importance determining device 17 ', carries out described equipment operating instruction to described equipment to be visited.For example, connect example, described the first device location information that generator 18 ' is determined according to primary importance determining device 17 ' is as (BJ Katherine Victoria+Room001,0101), to the equipment operating instruction as described in computing equipment 2 execution renewal virus investigation softwares of this equipment to be visited.

Preferably, location determining device 1 also comprises the second judgment means (not shown) and the second updating device (not shown).Particularly, the second judgment means judges whether to meet the second renewal trigger condition of upgrading described the second corresponding relation; When meeting described the second renewal trigger condition, the second updating device upgrades described the second corresponding relation.

Particularly, the second judgment means, for judging whether to meet the second renewal trigger condition of upgrading described the second corresponding relation; Wherein, described the second renewal trigger condition comprises following at least any one:

-described the first corresponding relation is updated;

The described node identification information of-described computing equipment changes;

-change the described computing equipment in described complete machine cabinet.

For example, when described the second renewal trigger condition comprises that described the first corresponding relation is updated, rack node 0 in the complete machine cabinet as shown in Fig. 1 to any one or more in rack node n break down or damage and change, first is related to that described the first corresponding relation that apparatus for establishing 11 ' is set up is updated, and the second judgment means judgement meets the second renewal trigger condition of upgrading described the second corresponding relation; For another example, when described the second renewal trigger condition comprises that the described node identification information of described computing equipment changes, computing equipment 0 in the complete machine cabinet as shown in Fig. 1 is to any one or more frame positions of having changed in computing equipment 3n-1, be that node identification information changes described in it, the second judgment means judgement meets and upgrades second of described the second corresponding relation and upgrade trigger condition; Also as, when described the second renewal trigger condition comprises the described computing equipment of changing in described complete machine cabinet, computing equipment 0 in the complete machine cabinet as shown in Fig. 1 to any one or more in computing equipment 3n-1 break down or damage and change, and the second judgment means judgement meets and upgrades second of described the second corresponding relation and upgrade trigger condition.

When meeting described the second renewal trigger condition, the second updating device upgrades described the second corresponding relation.For example, suppose as shown in Figure 1, computing equipment 1 has been changed frame position, as the position by is as shown in Figure 1 replaced by the position at computing equipment 0 place, there is variation in the node identification information that is the corresponding rack node of computing equipment 1, as node identification information is replaced by SN0 by SN1, send-request unit 12 ' passes through I ²c address bus sends Frame " 10100011 ", and this Frame comprises the target bus address information " 1010001 " corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node, I ²each slave in C bus all compares this 7 bit address code " 1010001 " and the address of oneself, by comparing, the computing equipment 1 that is arranged in node identification information and is the rack node access of SN0 finds that its corresponding bus address " 1010001 " is consistent with the described target bus address information that the described device location request of send-request unit 12 ' transmission comprises, computing equipment 1 thinks that it is just by host addressing, according to

be defined as transmitter, then carry out the instruction that reports its target device identification information and destination node marking information, according to first, be related to described the first corresponding relation that apparatus for establishing 11 ' is set up, inquiry obtains the destination node marking information nodel1 of the described target rack node corresponding with its target bus address information " 1010001 ", then to response receiving system 13 ' report described target device identification information as report its equipment Serial Number as SN1 and as described in destination node marking information nodel1, response receiving system 13 ' find this device identification response of receiving as target device identification information as equipment Serial Number as SN1 and as described in destination node marking information nodel1, inconsistent with original equipment Serial Number SN0 in the locational computing equipment of rack node nodel0, the second judgment means judgement meets the second renewal trigger condition of upgrading described the second corresponding relation, the second updating device changes to SN1 by original equipment Serial Number SN0 in the locational computing equipment of rack node nodel0, correspondingly, upgrade described the second corresponding relation, be about to original the second corresponding relation in the locational computing equipment of rack node nodel0 and its device location information by (SN0, goal-location0) change to (SN1, goal-location0), for another example, suppose as shown in Figure 1, the computing equipment 1 of rack node nodel1 access breaks down, and changes, as is replaced by new computing equipment, and the equipment identification information of supposing the computing equipment that this is new is SNnew, and send-request unit 12 ' passes through I ²c address bus sends Frame " 10100011 ", and this Frame comprises the target bus address information " 1010001 " corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node, I ²each slave in C bus all compares this 7 bit address code " 1010001 " and the address of oneself, by comparing, the computing equipment 1 that is arranged in node identification information and is the rack node access of SN0 finds that its corresponding bus address " 1010001 " is consistent with the described target bus address information that the described device location request of send-request unit 12 ' transmission comprises, computing equipment 1 thinks that it is just by host addressing, according to be defined as transmitter, then carry out the instruction that reports its target device identification information and destination node marking information, according to first, be related to described the first corresponding relation that apparatus for establishing 11 ' is set up, inquiry obtains the destination node marking information nodel1 of the described target rack node corresponding with its target bus address information " 1010001 ", then to response receiving system 13 ' report described target device identification information as report its equipment Serial Number as SNnew and as described in destination node marking information nodel1, response receiving system 13 ' find this device identification response of receiving as target device identification information as equipment Serial Number as SNnew and as described in destination node marking information nodel1, inconsistent with original equipment Serial Number SN1 in the locational computing equipment of rack node nodel1, the second judgment means judgement meets the second renewal trigger condition of upgrading described the second corresponding relation, the second updating device changes to SNnew by original equipment Serial Number SN1 in the locational computing equipment of rack node nodel1, correspondingly, upgrade described the second corresponding relation, be about to original the second corresponding relation in the locational computing equipment of rack node nodel1 and its device location information by (SN1, goal-location1) change to (SNnew, goal-location1).

Those skilled in the art will be understood that the mode of described the second corresponding relation of above-mentioned renewal is only for giving an example; the mode of described the second corresponding relation of other renewals existing or that may occur is from now on as applicable to the present invention; also should be included in protection range of the present invention, and with way of reference, be contained in this at this.

Those skilled in the art will be understood that in specific embodiment, and second is related to that apparatus for establishing 15 ' and the second updating device can be modules independently mutually, also can integrate.

(with reference to figure 3) in a preferred embodiment, wherein, location determining device 1 comprises that first is related to that apparatus for establishing 11 ', send-request unit 12 ', response receiving system 13 ', target location determining device 14 ', second are related to apparatus for establishing 15 ', acquisition request device 16 ', primary importance determining device 17 ' and generator 18 '.Below with reference to Fig. 3, the preferred embodiment is described: particularly, first is related to that apparatus for establishing 11 ' sets up or upgrade the first corresponding relation of the node identification information of bus address information corresponding described rack node with it in described complete machine cabinet; Send-request unit 12 ' sends the device location request about target computing equipment by described address bus, and wherein, described device location request comprises the target bus address information corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node; Response receiving system 13 ' receives the device identification corresponding with described device location request by described address bus and responds, wherein, described device identification response comprises the target device identification information of described target computing equipment, and the destination node marking information of the described target rack node corresponding with described target bus address information of determining by described the first corresponding relation; Target location determining device 14 ' is according to described destination node marking information, and the positional information of described complete machine cabinet, determines the target device positional information of described target computing equipment; Second is related to that apparatus for establishing 15 ', according to described target device positional information and described target device identification information, sets up or upgrade the second corresponding relation of described computing equipment and its device location information; Acquisition request device 16 ' obtains the Trouble Report request about equipment to be visited, and wherein, described Trouble Report request comprises described device location request; Primary importance determining device 17 ', according to described the second corresponding relation, is determined first device location information corresponding with described the first equipment identification information; Generator 18 ', by described the first device location information and the information corresponding with described Trouble Report request, offers the corresponding user of described Trouble Report request.At this, first be related to apparatus for establishing 11 ', send-request unit 12 ', response receiving system 13 ', target location determining device 14 ' and Fig. 2 the corresponding intrument in corresponding embodiment same or similar, second be related to apparatus for establishing 15 ' and primary importance determining device 17 ' and Fig. 3 the corresponding intrument in corresponding embodiment same or similar, therefore do not repeat them here, and mode is by reference contained in this.

Particularly, acquisition request device 16 ' is by dynamic web page techniques such as ASP, JSP, obtains the search sequence of the equipment identification information that user inputs in equipment fault search report hurdle, to obtain the Trouble Report request about equipment to be visited; Or the fault alarm signal of sending by receiving faulty equipment, obtains the Trouble Report request of this faulty equipment, and wherein, described Trouble Report request comprises described device location request.At this, described Trouble Report include but not limited to as described in computing equipment while breaking down as described in computing equipment fault content, change described computing equipment, as described in fan board damage, as described in fan board replacing etc.For example, user A has carried out about computing equipment to be visited as the Trouble Report request of computing equipment 2 on as PC by the subscriber equipment the client that device fault information can be provided is installed, if the equipment identification information of the computing equipment 2 of inputting in the device fault information search column in this client is as the search sequence of " 123xyz ", acquisition request device 16 ' passes through ASP, the dynamic web page techniques such as JSP, just get that user A submits to about computing equipment to be visited as the Trouble Report request of computing equipment 2, wherein, described Trouble Report request comprises described device location request, as as described in comprising the first equipment identification information of computing equipment to be visited as " 123xyz ".

Then, generator 18 ' can, first by calling the fault warning application program (API) of described equipment to be visited, obtain the information corresponding with described Trouble Report request of this equipment to be visited, then pass through such as ASP, the dynamic web page technique such as JSP or PHP, or the communication mode of other agreements, as communication protocols such as http or https, described the first device location information and the acquisition information corresponding with described Trouble Report request that primary importance determining device 17 ' is determined, by modes such as note or mail, offer the corresponding user of described Trouble Report request, as this user's subscriber equipment, for user, process, at this, the corresponding information of described and described Trouble Report request includes but not limited to as fault content, the alarm of sending according to fault, time of failure etc.

Preferably, generator 18 ' is by dynamic web page techniques such as ASP, JSP or PHP, or the communication mode of other agreements, as communication protocols such as http or https, also can offer the corresponding information of described Trouble Report request the corresponding application of described Trouble Report request.At this, the corresponding application of described Trouble Report request comprises Trouble Report application, as Trouble Report, unit exception etc. is reported to corresponding application module as upper layer application, to process in time.

Fig. 4 illustrates the method flow diagram in the positional information of complete machine cabinet for definite computing equipment according to a further aspect of the present invention, wherein, described complete machine cabinet comprises one or more fan boards and the rack node being connected with described fan board via address bus, and described rack node is used for accessing described computing equipment.

Particularly, in step S1, the first corresponding relation of the node identification information of bus address information corresponding described rack node with it in described complete machine cabinet is set up or upgraded to location determining device 1; In step S2, location determining device 1 sends the device location request about target computing equipment by described address bus, wherein, described device location request comprises the target bus address information corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node; In step S3, location determining device 1 receives the device identification corresponding with described device location request by described address bus and responds, wherein, described device identification response comprises the target device identification information of described target computing equipment, and the destination node marking information of the described target rack node corresponding with described target bus address information of determining by described the first corresponding relation; In step S4, location determining device 1 is according to described destination node marking information, and the positional information of described complete machine cabinet, determines the target device positional information of described target computing equipment.At this, described fan board comprises fan control board, and it,, for controlling fan, also can comprise bus expansion board, and it is for extended address bus, as passes through I ²c hub, I ²c repeater, I ²the device Jiang Yi road I such as C expander ²c-channel extends to multichannel I ²c-channel, as I ²c hub PCA9518 Jiang Yi road I ²c-channel extends to 5 road I ²c-channel; Wherein, on described fan board, also can signalization strengthen chip, to guarantee the I between position determining means 1 and described fan board ²the quality of C signal.At this, described rack node comprises as backboard and/or middle plate, in actual applications, can guarantee the passivity of backboard/middle plate, and controls the quantity that backboard/middle board management cable connects, and to guarantee the quality of signal transmission, guarantees the maintainability of cable simultaneously.Those skilled in the art will be understood that said fans plate and rack node are only for giving an example; other fan boards existing or that may occur from now on or rack node are as applicable to the present invention; also should be included in protection range of the present invention, and with way of reference, be contained in this at this.

Particularly, in step S1, location determining device 1 is by predetermined being connected as the hardware address between the location determining device 1 of microcontroller with described complete machine cabinet as devices such as computing equipment, fan board, rack nodes in the described complete machine cabinet of ancillary equipment, as the low and high level of the address pins of chip arranges etc., set up or upgrade the first corresponding relation of the node identification information of bus address information corresponding described rack node with it in described complete machine cabinet.At this, according to above-mentioned hardware address, connect, just can uniquely determine described bus address information, it can be stored in described complete machine cabinet in the register as the location determining device 1 of microcontroller.At this, described node identification information comprise as described in computing equipment as described in slot positions of machine cabinet id information in complete machine cabinet etc., its memory that can be stored in described fan board and/or described rack node is as in E2PROM.For example, suppose to adopt hardware connection mode as shown in Figure 1, adopt I ²c bus 7 bit addressing modes are as shown in table 2, and wherein, data bit D7～D0 is slave addresses, and lowest order represents data transfer direction, and S represents initial signal:

Table 2

Suppose that node identification information is the rack Nodes access computing equipment 0 of nodel0, its corresponding bus address D7～D0 is 1010000, node identification information is the rack Nodes access computing equipment 1 of nodel1, its corresponding bus address D7～D0 is 1010001, node identification information is the rack Nodes access computing equipment 2 of nodel2, its corresponding bus address D7～D0 is 1010011, etc., in step S1, location determining device 1 is set up first corresponding relation of node identification information of bus address information corresponding described rack node with it of each computing equipment in described complete machine cabinet.

In step S2, location determining device 1 is by sending the mode of the address of selecting slave to slave such as main frame, by described address bus, send the device location request about target computing equipment, wherein, described device location request comprises the target bus address information corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node.For example, suppose that send-request unit 12 passes through I after sending initial signal ²c address bus sends Frame " 10100111 ", and this Frame has comprised i.e. front 7 " 1010011 " of this Frame of the target bus address information corresponding with the corresponding target rack of target computing equipment node.

In step S3, location determining device 1 receives the device identification corresponding with described device location request by described address bus and responds, wherein, described device identification response comprises the target device identification information of described target computing equipment, and the destination node marking information of the described target rack node corresponding with described target bus address information of determining by described the first corresponding relation.At this, described target device identification information include but not limited to as described in the IP address, MAC Address, equipment Serial Number SN etc. of target computing equipment.At this, in step S3, the mode that location determining device 1 receives the device identification response corresponding with described device location request by described address bus includes but not limited to following at least any one:

1) with in step S2, the consistent computing equipment of described target bus address information that the described device location request that location determining device 1 sends comprises is according to the instruction that reports its target device identification information and destination node marking information receiving, to in step S3, location determining device 1 reports described target device identification information.For example, suppose that, in step S2, location determining device 1 is passed through I ²c address bus sends Frame " 10100111 ", and this Frame comprises the target bus address information " 1010011 " corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node, I ²each slave in C bus all compares this 7 bit address code " 1010011 " and the address of oneself, by comparing, node identification information is that the rack Nodes access computing equipment 2 of nodel2 finds that its corresponding bus address " 1010011 " is with in step S2, the described target bus address information that the described device location request that location determining device 1 sends comprises is consistent, computing equipment 2 thinks that it is just by host addressing, according to

be defined as transmitter, then carry out the instruction that reports its target device identification information and destination node marking information, according to described the first corresponding relation, inquiry obtains the destination node marking information nodel2 of the described target rack node corresponding with its target bus address information " 1010011 ", then in step S3, location determining device 1 report described target device identification information as report its equipment Serial Number SN and as described in destination node marking information nodel2.

2) in step S3, location determining device 1 is first by reading the instruction of the target device identification information of the consistent computing equipment of described target bus address information that its described device location request sending in step S2 comprises, as " get SN ", the direct memory at this computing equipment is as E ²in PROM, read the target device identification information of this computing equipment as equipment Serial Number SN; Then by step S1, described the first corresponding relation that location determining device 1 is set up, according to described target bus address information, as according to instruction, " get ID " inquiry obtains the destination node marking information of the described target rack node corresponding with this target bus address information.For example, connect example, by address comparison, node identification information is that the rack Nodes access computing equipment 2 of nodel2 finds that its corresponding bus address " 1010011 " is with in step S2, the described target bus address information that the described device location request that location determining device 1 sends comprises is consistent, according to

in step S3, location determining device 1 can read be stored in computing equipment 2 memory as E ²data in PROM are if the target device identification information of this computing equipment 2 is as equipment Serial Number SN; Then by step S1, described the first corresponding relation that location determining device 1 is set up, according to described target bus address information, as according to instruction, " get ID " inquiry obtains the destination node marking information nodel2 of the described target rack node corresponding with this target bus address information.

Then, in step S4, location determining device 1 is according to described destination node marking information, and the positional information of described complete machine cabinet, determines the target device positional information of described target computing equipment.At this, the positional information of described complete machine cabinet comprise as: the Host equipment room information of the machine room that 1), complete machine cabinet was positioned at is as machine room title, machine room room number etc.; 2) positional information of described complete machine cabinet in machine room as the rack line number of complete machine cabinet in machine room and row number etc., as the positional information location=of complete machine cabinet (BJ Katherine Victoria+Room001,0101), for example BJ Katherine Victoria+Room01 represents that complete machine cabinet is positioned at Beijing Katherine Victoria machine room, machine room room number is the first row first case that 001,0101 this complete machine cabinet of expression is positioned at machine room.Those skilled in the art will be understood that the expression mode of the positional information of above-mentioned complete machine cabinet is only for example; the expression mode of the positional information of other complete machine cabinets existing or that may occur is from now on as applicable to the present invention; also should be included in protection range of the present invention, and with way of reference, be contained in this at this.Particularly, in step S4, location determining device 1 determines that the mode of the target device positional information of described target computing equipment includes but not limited to following at least any one:

1) according to described destination node marking information as ID, and the positional information of described complete machine cabinet is as location, determines that the target device positional information of described target computing equipment is as being expressed as (location, ID) by two tuples.For example, suppose in step S3, the described target computing equipment that the described device identification response that location determining device 1 receives comprises as the destination node marking information of computing equipment 2 be nodel2, and the positional information of the complete machine cabinet at these computing equipment 2 places is location=(BJ Katherine Victoria+Room001, 0101), in step S4, location determining device 1 determine this target computing equipment as the target device positional information of computing equipment 2 be goal-location=(location, ID)=((BJ Katherine Victoria+Room001, 0101), nodel2), be that target computing equipment target device positional information as described in computing equipment 2 is the complete machine cabinet of the computing equipment 2 the first row first case that is arranged in the machine room that Beijing Katherine Victoria machine room and machine room room number are 001 and the rack groove that cabinet No. is 2.

2) according to the target device identification information of described target computing equipment as described in the corresponding target rack of the target bus address information node of SN and this target computing equipment destination node marking information as ID, set up the corresponding relation of target device identification information and destination node marking information as (SN, ID), then the positional information based on described complete machine cabinet is if location and destination node marking information are as ID, determine that the node location information of this destination node marking Information ID is as ID-location, with the corresponding relation of setting up target device identification information and node location information as (SN, ID-location), in step S4, location determining device 1 is according to node SN, can determine the position of computing equipment in machine room on this node.For example, connect example, hypothetical target computing equipment equipment identification information as described in computing equipment 2 is SN=" 123xyz ", in step S4, first location determining device 1 can obtain the described target device identification information of computing equipment 2 and the corresponding relation of described destination node marking information as (SN, ID)=(123xyz, nodel2), and then be location=(BJ Katherine Victoria+Room001 according to the positional information of the complete machine cabinet at computing equipment 2 places, 0101), in step S4, location determining device 1 can determine that the node location information of destination node marking Information ID of computing equipment 2 is as ID-location=(location, ID)=((BJ Katherine Victoria+Room001, 0101), nodel2), then, in step S4, location determining device 1 can obtain computing equipment 2 shown in the corresponding relation of target device identification information and node location information ID-location as (SN, ID-location)=(123xyz, ((BJ Katherine Victoria+Room001, 0101), nodel2)), target location determining device 14 determine this target computing equipment as the target device positional information of computing equipment 2 be goal-location=(123xyz, ((BJ Katherine Victoria+Room001, 0101), nodel2)), be that equipment identification information is the complete machine cabinet of the computing equipment 2 of SN=" 123xyz " the first row first case that is arranged in the machine room that Beijing Katherine Victoria machine room and machine room room number are 001 and the rack groove that cabinet No. is 2.

Between each step of location determining device 1, be constant work.Particularly, in step S1, location determining device 1 continues to set up or upgrade the first corresponding relation of the node identification information of bus address information corresponding described rack node with it in described complete machine cabinet; In step S2, location determining device 1 continues to send the device location request about target computing equipment by described address bus, wherein, described device location request comprises the target bus address information corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node; In step S3, location determining device 1 continues to receive the device identification corresponding with described device location request by described address bus and responds, wherein, described device identification response comprises the target device identification information of described target computing equipment, and the destination node marking information of the described target rack node corresponding with described target bus address information of determining by described the first corresponding relation; In step S4, location determining device 1 continues according to described destination node marking information, and the positional information of described complete machine cabinet, determines the target device positional information of described target computing equipment.Those skilled in the art will be understood that " continuing " refers to that each step of location determining device 1 constantly carries out respectively the foundation of the first corresponding relation or renewal, the transmission of device location request, determining of the reception of device identification response and target device positional information, until this location determining device 1 stops foundation or the renewal of the first corresponding relation in a long time.

Preferably, location determining device 1 also comprises step S9 (not shown).Particularly, in step S9, whether location determining device 1 detects to meet by address bus and sends the request transmission trigger condition about the device location request of target computing equipment; Wherein, when meeting described request transmission trigger condition, in step S2, location determining device 1 sends the device location request about target computing equipment by described address bus, wherein, described device location request comprises the target bus address information corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node.

Particularly, in step S9, whether location determining device 1 detects to meet by address bus and sends the request transmission trigger condition about the device location request of target computing equipment; Wherein, described request transmission trigger condition comprises following at least any one:

-enable first described complete machine cabinet;

Newly-increased computing equipment in-described complete machine cabinet.

For example, when sending trigger condition, described request comprises while enabling first described complete machine cabinet, suppose that complete machine cabinet is for the new product of paying, when plugging in, when start is used,, in step S9, location determining device 1 judgement is satisfied sends the request transmission trigger condition about the device location request of target computing equipment by address bus; For another example, when described request send trigger condition comprise meet predetermined while pass through described address bus transmission about the request transmit mechanism of the device location request of target computing equipment, as according to polling mechanism, in step S2, location determining device 1 is sent the inquiry request of the bus address information of query count equipment to each computing equipment in complete machine cabinet by some cycles,, in step S9, location determining device 1 judgement is satisfied sends the request transmission trigger condition about the device location request of target computing equipment by address bus; Also as, when described request sends trigger condition and comprises in described complete machine cabinet newly-increased computing equipment, when the computing equipment of the node identification information of the described rack node at the complete machine cabinet rack Nodes access information that is nodel12,, in step S9, location determining device 1 judgement is satisfied sends the request transmission trigger condition about the device location request of target computing equipment by address bus.

When meeting described request transmission trigger condition, in step S2, location determining device 1 sends the device location request about target computing equipment by described address bus, wherein, described device location request comprises the target bus address information corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node.For example, while supposing to enable first described complete machine cabinet, checkout gear detects and meets described request transmission trigger condition, and, in step S2, location determining device 1 triggers and sends after initial signal, then passes through I ²c address bus sends Frame " 10100111 ", and this Frame has comprised the target bus address information " 1010011 " corresponding with the corresponding target rack of target computing equipment node; Or in step S2, location determining device 1 triggers the instruction of the bus address information that reads target computing equipment.

Preferably, location determining device 1 also comprises step S10 (not shown) and step S11 (not shown).Particularly, in step S10, location determining device 1 judges whether to meet the first renewal trigger condition of upgrading described the first corresponding relation; When meeting described the first renewal trigger condition, in step S11, location determining device 1 is upgraded described the first corresponding relation.

Particularly, in step S01, location determining device 1 judges whether to meet the first renewal trigger condition of upgrading described the first corresponding relation; Wherein, described the first renewal trigger condition comprises following at least any one:

-change described fan board;

-change described rack node.

For example, when described the first renewal trigger condition comprises the described fan board of replacing, fan board 0 in the complete machine cabinet as shown in Fig. 1 is changed to any one or more damages in fan board n,, in step S 10, location determining device 1 judgement meets the first renewal trigger condition of upgrading described the first corresponding relation; For another example, when described the first renewal trigger condition comprises the described rack node of replacing, rack node 0 in the complete machine cabinet as shown in Fig. 1 to any one or more in rack node n break down or damage and change,, in step S 10, location determining device 1 judgement meets the first renewal trigger condition of upgrading described the first corresponding relation.

When meeting described the first renewal trigger condition, in step S11, location determining device 1 is upgraded described the first corresponding relation.For example, suppose as shown in Figure 1, when fan board 0 damages, change, as be replaced by fan board 0 ', its corresponding bus address information is " 1011000 ", fan board 0 by address bus as I ²the computing equipment 0 of rack node 0 access that C is coupled to computing equipment 2 does not damage, normal work, the computing equipment 0 of rack node 0 access connecting as this complete machine cabinet fan plate 0 ' of ancillary equipment to computing equipment 2 with in this complete machine cabinet, as the hardware address between the location determining device 1 of microcontroller, is not connected and changes, i.e. fan board replacing front and back its by address bus as I ²the computing equipment 0 of the coupled rack node of C 0 access to the bus address information of computing equipment 2 as I ²c0 to I ²c2 and node identification information thereof do not change as nodel0 to nodel2, in step S10, location determining device 1 judgement meets the first renewal trigger condition of upgrading described the first corresponding relation, and in step S2, location determining device 1 sends the device request about target computing equipment by described address bus, as send Frame " 10110000 ", this Frame comprises the target bus address information " 1011000 " corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node, fan board 0 ' comprises its bus address information " 1011000 " address information " 1011000 " with this Frame is compared, address is identical, fan board 0 ' thinks that it is just by host addressing, according to

be defined as receiver, in step S3, location determining device 1 read be stored in this fan board 0 ' memory as E ²the node identification information of the computing equipment in PROM, as read fan board 0 ' originally via I ²the computing equipment that C bus connects is as the node identification information of computing equipment 0 ' to computing equipment 2 ', the computing equipment 0 ' that discovery reads is inconsistent to node identification information and the node identification information in original described the first corresponding relation of computing equipment 2 ', with fan board 0 by address bus as I ²the computing equipment 0 of rack node 0 access that C is coupled is inconsistent to the node identification information of computing equipment 2, respond computing equipment 0 ' that receiving system 13 reads to the node identification information of computing equipment 2 ' and be respectively nodel0 ' to nodel2 ', and computing equipment 0 to the node identification information of computing equipment 2 is respectively nodel0 to nodel2, in step S11, location determining device 1 writes fan board 0 ' by the node identification information in described the first corresponding relation, is about to the memory of fan board 0 ' as E ²the node identification information nodel0 ' of the computing equipment in PROM changes to same bus address information I in described the first corresponding relation to nodel2 ' ²c0 to I ²the corresponding node identification information of C2 nodel0 to nodel2, for another example, suppose as Fig. 1, when damaging, rack node 0 changes, as be replaced by rack node 0 ', its corresponding bus address information is " 1110000 ", the computing equipment 0 of the fan board 0 being connected with rack node 0 and 0 access of this rack node to computing equipment 2 does not damage, normal work, as the computing equipment 0 of the rack node 0 ' access in this complete machine cabinet of ancillary equipment to computing equipment 2 with in this complete machine cabinet, as the hardware address between the location determining device 1 of microcontroller, be not connected and change, be that the bus address information of the computing equipment of its access before and after rack node replacement is as I ²c0 to I ²c2 and node identification information thereof do not change as nodel0 to nodel2, in step S10, location determining device 1 judgement meets the first renewal trigger condition of upgrading described the first corresponding relation, and in step S2, location determining device 1 sends the device request about target computing equipment by described address bus, as send Frame " 11100000 ", this Frame comprises the target bus address information " 1110000 " corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node, rack node 0 ' comprises its bus address information " 1110000 " address information " 1110000 " with this Frame is compared, address is identical, rack node 0 ' thinks that it is just by host addressing, according to

be defined as receiver, in step S3, location determining device 1 read be stored in this rack node 0 ' memory as E ²the node identification information of the computing equipment in PROM, as read rack node 0 ' originally via I ²the computing equipment that C bus connects is as the node identification information of computing equipment 0 ' to computing equipment 2 ', the computing equipment 0 ' that discovery reads is inconsistent to node identification information and the node identification information in original described the first corresponding relation of computing equipment 2 ', with rack node 0 by address bus as I ²the coupled computing equipment 0 of C is inconsistent to the node identification information of computing equipment 2, respond computing equipment 0 ' that receiving system 13 reads to the node identification information of computing equipment 2 ' and be respectively nodel0 ' to nodel2 ', and computing equipment 0 to the node identification information of computing equipment 2 is respectively nodel0 to nodel2, in step S11, location determining device 1 writes rack node 0 ' by the node identification information nodel0 to nodel2 in described the first corresponding relation, is about to the memory of rack node 0 ' as E ²the node identification information nodel0 ' of the computing equipment in PROM changes to same bus address information I in described the first corresponding relation to nodel2 ' ²c0 to I ²the corresponding node identification information of C2 nodel0 to nodel2.

Particularly, in step S1 ', the first corresponding relation of the node identification information of bus address information corresponding described rack node with it in described complete machine cabinet is set up or upgraded to location determining device 1; In step S2 ', location determining device 1 sends the device location request about target computing equipment by described address bus, wherein, described device location request comprises the target bus address information corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node; In step S3 ', location determining device 1 receives the device identification corresponding with described device location request by described address bus and responds, wherein, described device identification response comprises the target device identification information of described target computing equipment, and the destination node marking information of the described target rack node corresponding with described target bus address information of determining by described the first corresponding relation; In step S4 ', location determining device 1 is according to described destination node marking information, and the positional information of described complete machine cabinet, determines the target device positional information of described target computing equipment; In step S5 ', the second corresponding relation of described computing equipment and its device location information is set up or upgraded to location determining device 1, according to described target device positional information and described target device identification information; In step S6 ', location determining device 1 is obtained the device location request about computing equipment to be visited that user submits to, and wherein, described device location request comprises the first equipment identification information of described computing equipment to be visited; In step S7 ', location determining device 1, according to described the second corresponding relation, is determined first device location information corresponding with described the first equipment identification information; In step S8 ', location determining device 1 offers described user by described the first device location information.At this, step S1 ', step S2 ', step S3 ', step S4 ' and Fig. 4 the corresponding step in corresponding embodiment same or similar, therefore do not repeat them here, and mode is by reference contained in this.

Particularly, in step S5 ', the second corresponding relation of described computing equipment and its device location information is set up or upgraded to location determining device 1, according to described target device positional information and described target device identification information.For example, suppose in step S4 ', the definite target computing equipment target device positional information as described in computing equipment 2 of location determining device 1 is goal-location=(location, ID)=((BJ Katherine Victoria+Room001, 0101), nodel2), and in step S3 ', described target computing equipment target device identification information as described in computing equipment 2 that the described device identification response that location determining device 1 receives comprises is SN=" 123xyz ", in step S5 ', the described computing equipment that location determining device 1 is set up and the second corresponding relation of its device location information are as (SN, goal-location)=(123xyz, ((BJ Katherine Victoria+Room001, 0101), nodel2)).

In step S6 ', location determining device 1 is by dynamic web page techniques such as ASP, JSP, obtain the search sequence of the equipment identification information that user inputs in device location information search column, the device location request about computing equipment to be visited of submitting to obtain user; Or, by based on various communication protocol, can provide the equipment of the device location information corresponding with described device location request to carry out alternately with other, the device location request about computing equipment to be visited of submitting to obtain user, wherein, described device location request comprises the first equipment identification information of described computing equipment to be visited.For example, user A has carried out about computing equipment to be visited as the device location request of computing equipment 2 on as PC by the subscriber equipment the client that device location information can be provided is installed, if the equipment identification information of the computing equipment 2 of inputting in the device location information search column in this client is as the search sequence of " 123xyz ", in step S6 ', location determining device 1 is passed through ASP, the dynamic web page techniques such as JSP, just get that user A submits to about computing equipment to be visited as the device location request of computing equipment 2, wherein, described device location request comprises that the first equipment identification information of described computing equipment to be visited is as " 123xyz ".

In step S7 ', location determining device 1, according to described the second corresponding relation, is determined first device location information corresponding with described the first equipment identification information.For example, connect example, in step S7 ', described the first equipment identification information that the described device location request that location determining device 1 is obtained in step S6 ' according to it comprises is as " 123xyz ", by inquiring about in step S5 ', described the second corresponding relation that location determining device 1 is set up is as (SN, goal-location)=(123xyz, ((BJ Katherine Victoria+Room001, 0101), nodel2)), determine that first device location information corresponding with this first equipment identification information is as (BJ Katherine Victoria+Room001, 0101), be that equipment identification information is the complete machine cabinet of the computing equipment 2 of SN=" 123xyz " the first row first case that is arranged in the machine room that Beijing Katherine Victoria machine room and machine room room number are 001 and the rack groove that cabinet No. is 2.

In step S8 ', location determining device 1 is by dynamic web page techniques such as ASP, JSP or PHP, or the communication mode of other agreements, as communication protocols such as http or https, described the first device location information is offered to described user, as this user's subscriber equipment, for user, browse.

Preferably, in step S6 ', location determining device 1 also can be obtained the equipment operating instruction about computing equipment to be visited that user submits to, and wherein, described equipment operating instruction comprises described device location request; Wherein, in step S8 ', location determining device 1, according to described the first device location information, is carried out described equipment operating instruction to described equipment to be visited.

Particularly, in step S6 ', location determining device 1 also can according to user by subscriber equipment as PC or at designated equipment as the equipment operating about certain computing equipment of carrying out on the server of the upper application module that equipment operating can be provided is installed, the equipment operating instruction about computing equipment to be visited of submitting to obtain user, wherein, described equipment operating instruction comprises described device location request.At this, described equipment operating instruction also includes but not limited to as carried out specific equipment operating instruction on designated equipment, for example, to certain computing equipment, send particular data set, unloading or loading or upgrade the designated module of certain computing equipment.For example, user A is by having carried out on the server the upper application module that equipment operating can be provided is installed about computing equipment to be visited as the equipment operating instruction of computing equipment 2, if the equipment identification information of the computing equipment 2 of inputting in the device location information search column in this upper application module is as the search sequence of " 123xyz ", then choose corresponding Search Results, by mouse or keyboard, carry out the equipment operating that upgrades virus investigation software, in step S6 ', location determining device 1 is passed through ASP, the dynamic web page techniques such as JSP, just get that user A submits to about computing equipment to be visited as the equipment operating instruction of computing equipment 2, wherein, described equipment operating instruction comprises described device location request, as as described in comprising the first equipment identification information of computing equipment to be visited as " 123xyz ".

Then,, in step S8 ', described the first device location information that location determining device 1 is determined according to primary importance determining device 17 ', carries out described equipment operating instruction to described equipment to be visited.For example, connect example, in step S8 ', described the first device location information that location determining device 1 is determined in step S7 ' according to it is as (BJ Katherine Victoria+Room001,0101), to the equipment operating instruction as described in computing equipment 2 execution renewal virus investigation softwares of this equipment to be visited.

Preferably, location determining device 1 also comprises step S12 ' (not shown) and step S13 ' (not shown).Particularly, in step S12 ', location determining device 1 judges whether to meet the second renewal trigger condition of upgrading described the second corresponding relation; When meeting described the second renewal trigger condition, in step S13 ', location determining device 1 is upgraded described the second corresponding relation.

Particularly, in step S12 ', location determining device 1 judges whether to meet the second renewal trigger condition of upgrading described the second corresponding relation; Wherein, described the second renewal trigger condition comprises following at least any one:

-described the first corresponding relation is updated;

For example, when described the second renewal trigger condition comprises that described the first corresponding relation is updated, rack node 0 in the complete machine cabinet as shown in Fig. 1 to any one or more in rack node n break down or damage and change, in step S 1 ', described the first corresponding relation that location determining device 1 is set up is updated,, in step S 12 ', location determining device 1 judgement meets the second renewal trigger condition of upgrading described the second corresponding relation; For another example, when described the second renewal trigger condition comprises that the described node identification information of described computing equipment changes, computing equipment 0 in the complete machine cabinet as shown in Fig. 1 is to any one or more frame positions of having changed in computing equipment 3n-1, be that node identification information changes described in it,, in step S12 ', location determining device 1 judgement meets the second renewal trigger condition of upgrading described the second corresponding relation; Also as, when described the second renewal trigger condition comprises the described computing equipment of changing in described complete machine cabinet, computing equipment 0 in the complete machine cabinet as shown in Fig. 1 to any one or more in computing equipment 3n-1 break down or damage and change,, in step S12 ', location determining device 1 judgement meets the second renewal trigger condition of upgrading described the second corresponding relation.

When meeting described the second renewal trigger condition, in step S13 ', location determining device 1 is upgraded described the second corresponding relation.For example, suppose as shown in Figure 1, computing equipment 1 has been changed frame position, as the position by is as shown in Figure 1 replaced by the position at computing equipment 0 place, there is variation in the node identification information that is the corresponding rack node of computing equipment 1, as node identification information is replaced by SN0 by SN1, in step S2 ', location determining device 1 is passed through I ²c address bus sends Frame " 10100011 ", and this Frame comprises the target bus address information " 1010001 " corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node, I ²each slave in C bus all compares this 7 bit address code " 1010001 " and the address of oneself, by comparing, the computing equipment 1 that is arranged in node identification information and is the rack node access of SN0 find its corresponding bus address " 1010001 " with at step S2 ', the described target bus address information that the described device location request that location determining device 1 sends comprises is consistent, computing equipment 1 thinks that it is just by host addressing, according to

be defined as transmitter, then carry out the instruction that reports its target device identification information and destination node marking information, according in step S1 ', described the first corresponding relation that location determining device 1 is set up, inquiry obtains the destination node marking information nodel1 of the described target rack node corresponding with its target bus address information " 1010001 ", then in step S3 ', location determining device 1 report described target device identification information as report its equipment Serial Number as SN1 and as described in destination node marking information nodel1, in step S3 ', location determining device 1 find this device identification response of receiving as target device identification information as equipment Serial Number as SN1 and as described in destination node marking information nodel1, inconsistent with original equipment Serial Number SN0 in the locational computing equipment of rack node nodel0, in step S12 ', location determining device 1 judgement meets the second renewal trigger condition of upgrading described the second corresponding relation, in step S13 ', location determining device 1 changes to SN1 by original equipment Serial Number SN0 in the locational computing equipment of rack node nodel0, correspondingly, upgrade described the second corresponding relation, be about to original the second corresponding relation in the locational computing equipment of rack node nodel0 and its device location information by (SN0, goal-location0) change to (SN1, goal-location0), for another example, suppose as shown in Figure 1, the computing equipment 1 of rack node nodel1 access breaks down, change, as be replaced by new computing equipment, the equipment identification information of supposing the computing equipment that this is new is SNnew, in step S2 ', location determining device 1 is passed through I ²c address bus sends Frame " 10100011 ", and this Frame comprises the target bus address information " 1010001 " corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node, I ²each slave in C bus all compares this 7 bit address code " 1010001 " and the address of oneself, by comparing, the computing equipment 1 that is arranged in node identification information and is the rack node access of SN0 find its corresponding bus address " 1010001 " with at step S2 ', the described target bus address information that the described device location request that location determining device 1 sends comprises is consistent, computing equipment 1 thinks that it is just by host addressing, according to

be defined as transmitter, then carry out the instruction that reports its target device identification information and destination node marking information, according in step S1 ', described the first corresponding relation that location determining device 1 is set up, inquiry obtains the destination node marking information nodel1 of the described target rack node corresponding with its target bus address information " 1010001 ", then in step S3 ', location determining device 1 report described target device identification information as report its equipment Serial Number as SNnew and as described in destination node marking information nodel1, in step S3 ', location determining device 1 find this device identification response of receiving as target device identification information as equipment Serial Number as SNnew and as described in destination node marking information nodel1, inconsistent with original equipment Serial Number SN1 in the locational computing equipment of rack node nodel1, in step S 12 ', location determining device 1 judgement meets the second renewal trigger condition of upgrading described the second corresponding relation, in step S13 ', location determining device 1 changes to SNnew by original equipment Serial Number SN1 in the locational computing equipment of rack node nodel1, correspondingly, upgrade described the second corresponding relation, be about to original the second corresponding relation in the locational computing equipment of rack node nodel1 and its device location information by (SN1, goal-location1) change to (SNnew, goal-location1).

(with reference to figure 5) in a preferred embodiment, wherein, location determining device 1 comprises step S1 ', step S2 ', step S3 ', step S4 ', step S5 ', step S6 ', step S7 ' and step S8 '.Below with reference to Fig. 5, the preferred embodiment is described: particularly, in step S 1 ', the first corresponding relation of the node identification information of bus address information corresponding described rack node with it in described complete machine cabinet is set up or upgraded to location determining device 1; In step S2 ', location determining device 1 sends the device location request about target computing equipment by described address bus, wherein, described device location request comprises the target bus address information corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node; In step S3 ', location determining device 1 receives the device identification corresponding with described device location request by described address bus and responds, wherein, described device identification response comprises the target device identification information of described target computing equipment, and the destination node marking information of the described target rack node corresponding with described target bus address information of determining by described the first corresponding relation; In step S4 ', location determining device 1 is according to described destination node marking information, and the positional information of described complete machine cabinet, determines the target device positional information of described target computing equipment; In step S5 ', the second corresponding relation of described computing equipment and its device location information is set up or upgraded to location determining device 1, according to described target device positional information and described target device identification information; In step S6 ', location determining device 1 is obtained the Trouble Report request about equipment to be visited, and wherein, described Trouble Report request comprises described device location request; In step S7 ', location determining device 1, according to described the second corresponding relation, is determined first device location information corresponding with described the first equipment identification information; In step S8 ', location determining device 1, by described the first device location information and the information corresponding with described Trouble Report request, offers the corresponding user of described Trouble Report request.At this, step S1 ', step S2 ', step S3 ', step S4 ' and Fig. 4 the corresponding step in corresponding embodiment same or similar, step S5 ' and step S7 ' and Fig. 5 the corresponding intrument in corresponding embodiment same or similar, therefore do not repeat them here, and mode is by reference contained in this.

Particularly, in step S6 ', location determining device 1 is by dynamic web page techniques such as ASP, JSP, obtains the search sequence of the equipment identification information that user inputs in equipment fault search report hurdle, to obtain the Trouble Report request about equipment to be visited; Or the fault alarm signal of sending by receiving faulty equipment, obtains the Trouble Report request of this faulty equipment, and wherein, described Trouble Report request comprises described device location request.At this, described Trouble Report include but not limited to as described in computing equipment while breaking down as described in computing equipment fault content, change described computing equipment, as described in fan board damage, as described in fan board replacing etc.For example, user A has carried out about computing equipment to be visited as the Trouble Report request of computing equipment 2 on as PC by the subscriber equipment the client that device fault information can be provided is installed, if the equipment identification information of the computing equipment 2 of inputting in the device fault information search column in this client is as the search sequence of " 123xyz ", in step S6 ', location determining device 1 is passed through ASP, the dynamic web page techniques such as JSP, just get that user A submits to about computing equipment to be visited as the Trouble Report request of computing equipment 2, wherein, described Trouble Report request comprises described device location request, as as described in comprising the first equipment identification information of computing equipment to be visited as " 123xyz ".

Then,, in step S8 ', location determining device 1 can, first by calling the fault warning application program (API) of described equipment to be visited, be obtained the information corresponding with described Trouble Report request of this equipment to be visited, then pass through such as ASP, the dynamic web page technique such as JSP or PHP, or the communication mode of other agreements, as communication protocols such as http or https, will be in step S7 ', described the first device location information and the acquisition information corresponding with described Trouble Report request that location determining device 1 is determined, by modes such as note or mail, offer the corresponding user of described Trouble Report request, as this user's subscriber equipment, for user, process, at this, the corresponding information of described and described Trouble Report request includes but not limited to as fault content, the alarm of sending according to fault, time of failure etc.

Preferably, in step S8 ', location determining device 1 is by dynamic web page techniques such as ASP, JSP or PHP, or the communication mode of other agreements, as communication protocols such as http or https, also the corresponding information of described Trouble Report request can be offered to the corresponding application of described Trouble Report request.At this, the corresponding application of described Trouble Report request comprises Trouble Report application, as Trouble Report, unit exception etc. is reported to corresponding application module as upper layer application, to process in time.

It should be noted that the present invention can be implemented in the assembly of software and/or software and hardware, for example, can adopt application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) (ASIC), general object computer or any other similar hardware device to realize.In one embodiment, software program of the present invention can carry out to realize step mentioned above or function by processor.Similarly, software program of the present invention (comprising relevant data structure) can be stored in computer readable recording medium storing program for performing, for example, and RAM memory, magnetic or CD-ROM driver or floppy disc and similar devices.In addition, steps more of the present invention or function can adopt hardware to realize, for example, thereby as coordinate the circuit of carrying out each step or function with processor.

In addition, a part of the present invention can be applied to computer program, and for example computer program instructions, when it is carried out by computer, by the operation of this computer, can call or provide the method according to this invention and/or technical scheme.And call the program command of method of the present invention, may be stored in fixing or movably in recording medium, and/or be transmitted by the data flow in broadcast or other signal bearing medias, and/or be stored in according in the working storage of the computer equipment of described program command operation.At this, comprise according to one embodiment of present invention a device, this device comprises for storing the memory of computer program instructions and for the processor of execution of program instructions, wherein, when this computer program instructions is carried out by this processor, trigger this device and move based on aforementioned according to the method for a plurality of embodiment of the present invention and/or technical scheme.

To those skilled in the art, obviously the invention is not restricted to the details of above-mentioned one exemplary embodiment, and in the situation that not deviating from spirit of the present invention or essential characteristic, can realize the present invention with other concrete form.Therefore, no matter from which point, all should regard embodiment as exemplary, and be nonrestrictive, scope of the present invention is limited by claims rather than above-mentioned explanation, is therefore intended to be included in the present invention dropping on the implication that is equal to important document of claim and all changes in scope.Any Reference numeral in claim should be considered as limiting related claim.In addition, obviously other unit or step do not got rid of in " comprising " word, and odd number is not got rid of plural number.A plurality of unit of stating in device claim or device also can be realized by software or hardware by a unit or device.The first, the second word such as grade is used for representing title, and does not represent any specific order.

Claims

1. one kind for determining that computing equipment is in the method for the positional information of complete machine cabinet, wherein, described complete machine cabinet comprises one or more fan boards and the rack node being connected with described fan board via address bus, described rack node is used for accessing described computing equipment, wherein, the method comprises the following steps:

Wherein, the method also comprises:

2. method according to claim 1, wherein, the method also comprises:

-according to described target device positional information and described target device identification information, set up or upgrade the second corresponding relation of described computing equipment and its device location information;

Wherein, the method also comprises:

R obtains the device location request about computing equipment to be visited that user submits to, and wherein, described device location request comprises the first equipment identification information of described computing equipment to be visited;

-according to described the second corresponding relation, determine first device location information corresponding with described the first equipment identification information;

Q offers described user by described the first device location information.

3. method according to claim 2, wherein, described step r comprises:

-obtain the equipment operating instruction about computing equipment to be visited that user submits to, wherein, described equipment operating instruction comprises described device location request;

Wherein, described step q comprises:

-according to described the first device location information, described equipment to be visited is carried out to described equipment operating instruction.

4. method according to claim 2, wherein, described step r comprises:

-obtain the Trouble Report request about equipment to be visited, wherein, described Trouble Report request comprises described device location request;

Wherein, described step q comprises:

-by described the first device location information and the information corresponding with described Trouble Report request, offer the corresponding user of described Trouble Report request.

5. method according to claim 4, wherein, described step q also comprises:

-the corresponding information of described Trouble Report request is offered to the corresponding application of described Trouble Report request.

6. according to the method described in any one in claim 1 to 5, wherein, the method also comprises:

Whether-detection meets by address bus sends the request transmission trigger condition about the device location request of target computing equipment;

Wherein, described step a comprises:

-when meeting described request transmission trigger condition, by described address bus, send the device location request about target computing equipment, wherein, described device location request comprises the target bus address information corresponding with the corresponding target rack of described target computing equipment node;

Wherein, described request transmission trigger condition comprises following at least any one:

-enable first described complete machine cabinet;

Newly-increased computing equipment in-described complete machine cabinet.

7. according to the method described in any one in claim 1 to 6, wherein, the method also comprises:

-judging whether to meet first of described the first corresponding relation of renewal upgrades trigger condition;

-when meeting described the first renewal trigger condition, upgrade described the first corresponding relation;

Wherein, described the first renewal trigger condition comprises following at least any one:

-change described fan board;

-change described rack node.

8. method according to claim 2, wherein, the method also comprises:

-judging whether to meet second of described the second corresponding relation of renewal upgrades trigger condition;

-when meeting described the second renewal trigger condition, upgrade described the second corresponding relation;

Wherein, described the second renewal trigger condition comprises following at least any one:

-described the first corresponding relation is updated;

9. one kind for determining that computing equipment is in the location determining device of the positional information of complete machine cabinet, wherein, described complete machine cabinet comprises one or more fan boards and the rack node being connected with described fan board via address bus, described rack node is used for accessing described computing equipment, wherein, this location determining device comprises:

Wherein, this location determining device also comprises:

10. location determining device according to claim 9, wherein, this location determining device also comprises:

Second is related to apparatus for establishing, for according to described target device positional information and described target device identification information, sets up or upgrade the second corresponding relation of described computing equipment and its device location information;

Wherein, this location determining device also comprises:

Acquisition request device, the device location request about computing equipment to be visited of submitting to for obtaining user, wherein, described device location request comprises the first equipment identification information of described computing equipment to be visited;

Primary importance determining device, for according to described the second corresponding relation, determines first device location information corresponding with described the first equipment identification information;

Generator, for offering described user by described the first device location information.

11. location determining device according to claim 10, wherein, described request acquisition device is used for:

Wherein, described generator is used for:

12. location determining device according to claim 10, wherein, described request acquisition device is used for:

Wherein, described generator is used for:

13. location determining device according to claim 12, wherein, described generator is used for:

14. according to the location determining device described in any one in claim 9 to 13, and wherein, this location determining device also comprises:

Whether checkout gear, for detection of meet by address bus and send the request transmission trigger condition about the device location request of target computing equipment;

Wherein, described request dispensing device is used for:

-enable first described complete machine cabinet;

Newly-increased computing equipment in-described complete machine cabinet.

15. according to the location determining device described in any one in claim 9 to 14, and wherein, this location determining device also comprises:

The first judgment means, for judging whether to meet the first renewal trigger condition of upgrading described the first corresponding relation;

The first updating device, for when meeting described the first renewal trigger condition, upgrades described the first corresponding relation;

-change described fan board;

-change described rack node.

16. location determining device according to claim 10, wherein, this location determining device also comprises:

The second judgment means, for judging whether to meet the second renewal trigger condition of upgrading described the second corresponding relation;

The second updating device, for when meeting described the second renewal trigger condition, upgrades described the second corresponding relation;

-described the first corresponding relation is updated;

17. 1 kinds of computer equipments, comprise the location determining device as described in any one in claim 9 to 16.