CN108169695A - The method that malfunction monitoring is integrated using the regulated power supply of the network equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for integrated fault monitoring using a stabilized power supply of network equipment, wherein the network equipment includes at least one stabilized power supply supplying DC voltage, the stabilized power supply can collect information collection modules for network equipment fault values and output fault values to the communication network the transmission module. The operation method of the stabilized power supply includes: the step of setting the fault critical value, the step of collecting the fault value, the step of comparing the fault and the step of remote fault alarm. The above steps are to define the fault critical value stored in the information collection module, and make the information collection module regularly collect the fault value of the network equipment, and the information collection module generates fault information when the fault value meets the fault critical value, and sends a remote fault alarm The step is to use the transmission module to collect fault information and send it to the communication network.

Description

A Method of Integrated Fault Monitoring Using Stabilized Power Supply of Network Equipment

technical field

A method for integrated fault monitoring using a regulated power supply of network equipment, in particular a method for autonomously monitoring and providing fault warnings using a regulated power supply.

Background technique

Please refer to FIG. 1 for a network equipment monitoring system with multiple regulated power supplies. In FIG. Each operates independently at a different location. In addition to being connected to loads, multiple groups of regulated power supplies 91 are further connected to a data processing system 92. The data processing system 92 can be a backplane in the chassis, or can be a network device connected to some regulated power supplies 91 through lines. The data processing system 92 must provide running power through some stabilized power supplies 91 simultaneously. The output and abnormal state of some regulated power supplies 91 are all read by the data processing system 92, and are transmitted to the fault monitoring equipment 93 through communication means, so that the network administrator who is not on site can know the status of each regulated power supply 91 through the fault monitoring device 93. Running state and whether the regulated power supply 91 fails and shuts down.

One possibility is that the data processing system 92 itself also needs to provide operating power through the regulated power supply 91. If the regulated power supply 91 has failed, the data processing system 92 cannot normally operate as a matter of course, and the fault monitoring device 93 cannot obtain any The data is compared to whether it is the fault of the regulated power supply 91 or the data processing system 92, which leads to difficulties in troubleshooting.

In addition to the above-mentioned problems of whether the regulated power supply 91 and the data processing system 92 start normally, there may be previous symptoms before the regulated power supply 91 shuts down completely, such as unstable output voltage, decreased fan speed, and gradual temperature rise. From the experience of management and maintenance, it is known that some previous symptoms of instability may represent insignificant damages such as capacitor damage in the stabilized voltage supply 91 , short circuit, excessive dust accumulation, and the like. If the voltage instability will cause the data processing system 92 to crash, of course the failure information cannot be returned, and the data processing system 92 may not be able to find the problem immediately after restarting.

Contents of the invention

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a monitoring method that utilizes a stabilized power supply to return fault values, and the monitoring method includes a mechanism for comparing abnormal conditions and alerting the network administrator, so that the network administrator can truly understand the conditions of each device in the network equipment .

The present invention is a method for integrated fault monitoring using a stabilized power supply of network equipment, wherein the network equipment contains at least one stabilized power supply supplying DC voltage, and the stabilized power supply can collect information collection modules for network equipment fault values and output fault values Transmission module to the communication network. The operation method of the stabilized power supply includes: the step of setting the fault critical value, the step of collecting the fault value, the step of comparing the fault and the step of remote fault alarm. Among them, the step of setting the fault critical value defines the fault critical value stored in the information collection module, the collecting fault value step makes the information collecting module regularly collect the fault value of the network equipment, and the comparing fault step makes the information collecting module compare the fault value to meet the fault critical value When the fault information is generated, the transmission module is used to collect the fault information in the remote fault alarm step and sent to the communication network.

In addition to transmitting the fault information, the above method can also send the fault value to the communication network at regular intervals. The network administrator can read the fault value by connecting with the communication network, and when any monitored fault occurs in the network equipment, the network administrator can understand the source of the fault through the fault monitoring status, so as to facilitate the network administrator to maintain the system .

Description of drawings

Figure 1 is a block diagram of the monitoring architecture.

Fig. 2 is a block diagram of the implementation process of the method of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the application architecture of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of the application architecture of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a specific architectural block diagram of FIG. 3 .

Detailed ways

The present invention is a method for integrated fault monitoring using the regulated power supply of network equipment, wherein the network equipment may include a single regulated power supply 2 (as shown in FIG. 3 ) or a multi-output system including multiple sets of regulated power supplies 2 (such as Figure 4). Please refer to Figure 3 first, the network equipment shown in Figure 3 includes a data processing system 1 and a regulated power supply 2, the data processing system 1 can be triggered by the on-off switch 7, and then the data processing system 1 outputs a power on-off signal to drive the regulated power supply 2 Switch to working state or sleep state. And the stabilized power supply 2 can collect the information collection module 4 of the network equipment fault value and the transmission module 5 that outputs the fault value to the communication network. The above-mentioned fault value can be the output voltage value of the stabilized voltage power supply 2, the output current value, the internal temperature or Any one or more values among fan revolutions. The fault value may further include the on/off state of the data processing system 1 . The information collection module 4 has to compare the abnormality of the fault value to generate fault information, and send the fault information to the communication network through the transmission module 5. The network administrator can collect the fault information through the fault monitoring device 3, and then know the abnormal state of the network equipment. In practice, the data processing system 1 shown in FIG. 3 can be the main board of a computer, and the regulated power supply 2 supplies the power output by the computer, and the fault monitoring device 3 monitors the state of the system.

Please refer to FIG. 4 for another network device. The data processing system 1 can be connected to multiple sets of regulated power supplies 2 , and each regulated power supply 2 is equipped with an information collection module 4 and a transmission module 5 . The data processing system 1 is also triggered by the on-off switch 7 , and then outputs a power on-off signal to drive the regulated power supply 2 to switch to the working state or the dormant state. The information collection module 4 collects fault values, and compares whether fault information is generated based on the fault values, and transmits the fault information to the communication network by the transmission module 5. Similarly, the fault values may include the on-off state of the data processing system 1 . The fault monitoring device 3 obtains fault information from the communication network. In practice, the information processing system 1 shown in FIG. 4 can be a backplane connected with multiple sets of regulated power supplies 2 .

In the above-mentioned embodiments of FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 , the information collection module 4 can regularly send the fault value to the communication network through the transmission module 5, so that the fault monitoring device 3 can regularly monitor some of the data collected by the regulated power supply 2 fault value.

In order to achieve the above-mentioned effect, the present invention provides a method for utilizing the regulated power supply 2 to monitor network equipment faults, so that the regulated power supply 2 (comprising the information collection module 4 and the transmission module 5 installed in the regulated power supply 2) operates as follows step:

A: The step of setting the fault critical value is to define the fault critical value stored in the information collection module 4 .

B: the step of collecting the fault value makes the information collection module 4 regularly collect the fault value of the network equipment.

C: The step of comparing faults, so that the information collection module 4 generates fault information when the compared fault value meets the fault critical value.

D: The step of remote fault alarm, making the transmission module 5 collect fault information and send it to the communication network.

Please refer to Figure 2 again for the flow chart of the operation of the above steps. The information collection module 4 needs to set the fault critical value (as step square 81) earlier before comparing the fault state, so after the information collection module 4 starts working, it can regularly collect the fault value (as step square two 82), and compare Whether the collected fault value meets the fault critical value (such as step three 83). If the fault value does not meet the fault critical value, it means that the network equipment is operating normally; but if the fault value meets the fault critical value, it means that some part of the network equipment is abnormal in the working state, so it is generated by the information collection module 4 in the regulated power supply 2 fault information, and send the fault information to the communication network 88 through the transmission module 5 (such as step square four 84). Therefore, the circuit architectures in FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 can run the method proposed by the present invention through the above-mentioned flow. The above-mentioned fault value can be any one or more values among the output voltage value, output current value, internal temperature or fan speed of the regulated power supply 2 . The set fault critical value can be the upper limit value of the fault value, or the lower limit value, or set the upper limit value and the lower limit value at the same time, and even the fault critical value can be set as the fluctuation of the fault value Limit value, that is, when the fluctuation of the fault value exceeds the upper limit of the fluctuation, it is considered that the system is unstable (for example, the output voltage fluctuation range is too large), and a fault message is issued. Furthermore, since the fault value can further include the on-off state of the data processing system 1, and the data processing system 1 should also be in the working state when the regulated power supply 1 is in the working state, the fault critical value also includes the regulated power supply 2 in the working state. state, the abnormal shutdown of the data processing system 1.

Please continue to refer to Fig. 4, after the regulated power supply 2 sends the fault information to the communication network 88, the network administrator can collect and monitor the regulated power supply through the communication network 88 (as step five 85), and the network administrator obtains the fault After the information, it is determined to switch the regulated power supply 2 to the sleep mode or the working mode according to the comparison (such as step six 86). More advanced, the network administrator can set different fault critical values, and return the updated fault critical value to the regulated power supply 2 through the communication network 88 (such as step seven 87), and the transmission module 5 returns to the information collection module 4 and update the failure threshold.

Please refer to FIG. 5 for a more specific embodiment of the present invention. The regulated power supply 2 includes an input terminal 20 , a power conversion unit 21 and a power control unit 22 , and the data processing system 1 in FIG. 5 is a motherboard 10 of a computer. The mainboard 10 is connected to the on-off switch 7 , and the network administrator has to touch the on-off switch 7 to drive the mainboard 10 to switch the state of the regulated power supply 2 . Assuming that the regulated power supply 2 is in a dormant state, the network administrator touches the on-off switch 7 so that the motherboard 10 sends a power on-off signal to the power control unit 22 of the regulated power supply 2, and then the power control unit 22 starts the power conversion unit 21 to output power supply load operation. It should be further explained that the power control unit 22 controls the start-up sequence of the stabilized power supply 2, including the operation and speed of the fan, and the monitoring of the internal temperature can also be operated by the power control unit 22, and the power control unit 22 operates the above functions. The technology is known to those with ordinary knowledge in the technical field, so it is not described in detail with illustrations. The information collection module 4 can choose to collect any one or more values from the power conversion unit 21 or the power control unit 22 among output voltage value, output current value, internal temperature or fan speed. Simultaneously, the information collection module 4 can collect the system state signal representing the opening and closing state of the mainboard 10 more, and then utilize the transmission module 5 to transmit the fault value collected by the information collection module 4 to the fault monitoring device 5 through the communication network, so that the fault monitoring device 3 The states of the regulated power supply 2 and the data processing system 1 are displayed. Furthermore, the information collection module 4 can be further connected to the program access unit 6, wherein the program access unit 6 stores the programmed man-machine interface, the information collection module 4 reads the man-machine interface, and integrates the fault value and the man-machine interface, and Through the transmission module 5, the fault monitoring equipment 3 reads the fault value and the man-machine interface.

Based on the above technical features, the main difference between the present invention and the monitoring circuit is that the fault value of the regulated power supply 2 in the architecture is transmitted back to the data processing system 1 and then transferred to the remote. However, the present invention collects the fault value in the stabilized power supply 2 and transmits it to a remote place through the communication network without returning to the data processing system 1, so even if the main output of the stabilized power supply 2 stops, becomes unstable or the data processing system 1 crashes , the information collection module 4 can also collect the fault value and send it back to the fault monitoring device 3, thereby avoiding each of the problems described in the prior art. Furthermore, the regulated power supply 2 can generate a fault message when the network device is in an abnormal state by running the aforementioned method, so as to remind the network administrator to repair or strengthen the monitoring of the state of the network device. Again, because the time and years of use of each stabilized power supply 2 are different, the information collection module 4 has a built-in timing circuit, and the information collection module 4 generates a warranty signal after the preset time to remind the network administrator to perform regular maintenance, or It will be replaced at that time during the useful life. The communication network between the transmission module 5 and the fault monitoring device 3 may be a physical network cable, or a wireless network, or a combination of a network cable and a wireless network. The communication format between the transmission module 5 and the remote monitoring device 3 is not limited under the premise of effectively transmitting the fault value.

Claims (9)

1. it is supplied in a kind of method that regulated power supply using the network equipment integrates malfunction monitoring, the wherein network equipment comprising at least one The regulated power supply of DC voltage is answered, regulated power supply can acquire the information acquisition module of network equipment failure value and output failure It is worth to the transmission module of communication network, and the method that regulated power supply is run includes：

Fault critical step is set, definition is stored in the fault critical of information acquisition module；

Fault value step is acquired, makes the fault value of the acquisition network equipment of information acquisition module timing；

Compare failure step, information acquisition module is made to generate fault message when relatively fault value meets fault critical；

Remote failure alarming step makes transmission module acquisition fault message and is sent in communication network.

2. the method that the regulated power supply according to claim 1 using the network equipment integrates malfunction monitoring, which is characterized in that The fault value can be any one among output voltage values, output current value, internal temperature or the fan revolution of regulated power supply A or multiple numerical value.

3. the method that the regulated power supply according to claim 2 using the network equipment integrates malfunction monitoring, which is characterized in that The fault critical is the upper limit value and lower limiting value of fault value.

4. the method that the regulated power supply according to claim 1 using the network equipment integrates malfunction monitoring, which is characterized in that The fault critical is the variation upper limit value of fault value.

5. the method that the regulated power supply according to claim 2 using the network equipment integrates malfunction monitoring, which is characterized in that The network equipment further includes data processing system, and data processing system obtains out-put supply keying signal driving at least voltage stabilizing electricity Source switches on working condition or dormant state, and fault value further includes the open/close states of data processing system.

6. the method that the regulated power supply according to claim 1 using the network equipment integrates malfunction monitoring, which is characterized in that The fault critical includes regulated power supply in working condition, the abnormal closing situation of data processing system.

7. the method that the regulated power supply according to claim 1 using the network equipment integrates malfunction monitoring, which is characterized in that The transmission module transmits signal, and transmission module is acquired derived from fault monitoring device with fault monitoring device by communication network Newer fault critical, and it is transmitted to information acquisition module operation setting fault critical step.

8. the method that the regulated power supply according to claim 1 using the network equipment integrates malfunction monitoring, which is characterized in that The fault value timing of described information acquisition module acquisition is sent to by transmission module in communication network.

9. the method that the regulated power supply according to claim 1 using the network equipment integrates malfunction monitoring, which is characterized in that Described information acquisition module have built-in timing circuit, information acquisition module must be given tacit consent to fix time after generate guarantee signal remind Network administrator.