CN108847959A - Server monitoring method and server - Google Patents

Server monitoring method and server Download PDF

Info

Publication number
CN108847959A
CN108847959A CN201810513006.7A CN201810513006A CN108847959A CN 108847959 A CN108847959 A CN 108847959A CN 201810513006 A CN201810513006 A CN 201810513006A CN 108847959 A CN108847959 A CN 108847959A
Authority
CN
China
Prior art keywords
server
network interface
interface card
instruction
management controller
Prior art date
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Granted
Application number
CN201810513006.7A
Other languages
Chinese (zh)
Other versions
CN108847959B (en
Inventor
王庆
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)
Lenovo Beijing Ltd
Original Assignee
Lenovo Beijing Ltd
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
Filing date
Publication date
Application filed by Lenovo Beijing Ltd filed Critical Lenovo Beijing Ltd
Priority to CN201810513006.7A priority Critical patent/CN108847959B/en
Publication of CN108847959A publication Critical patent/CN108847959A/en
Application granted granted Critical
Publication of CN108847959B publication Critical patent/CN108847959B/en
Active legal-status Critical Current
Anticipated expiration legal-status Critical

Links

Classifications

    • HELECTRICITY
    • H04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04LTRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L41/00Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks
    • H04L41/08Configuration management of networks or network elements
    • H04L41/0803Configuration setting
    • H04L41/0813Configuration setting characterised by the conditions triggering a change of settings
    • H04L41/082Configuration setting characterised by the conditions triggering a change of settings the condition being updates or upgrades of network functionality
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04LTRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L43/00Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks
    • H04L43/08Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters

Abstract

Present disclose provides a kind of server monitoring methods, including:The Management Controller of server obtains the specify information of the network interface card of server based on sideband data interface;The specify information of the network interface card of acquired server is sent to the remote side administration equipment of server by the Management Controller, so that the remote side administration equipment is monitored the network interface card of server.The disclosure additionally provides a kind of server.

Description

Server monitoring method and server
Technical field
This disclosure relates to a kind of server monitoring method and server.
Background technique
Server is as the basic computational ele- ment in data center, in any Internet data center (IDC, Internet Data Center) it is all important and common equipment in/computer room.It wherein, is in whole network monitoring to the monitoring of server Important link.Current network operation state can be better grasped by the monitoring to server, judges that server exists in time The various exceptions occurred in operational process, and to judge that the reason of Network Abnormal causes provides important foundation.
During being monitored to server, essentially the network interface card of server is monitored.Existing skill In art, usually before server starting up enters operating system during reading service device network interface card relevant information it is concurrent It send into remote side administration equipment and is monitored management, have the following problems:
The prior art can not read the relevant information of server network interface card in server quick start, can only be in server Network interface card information is read before normally launching into operating system to retransmit to remote side administration equipment.Cause remote side administration equipment can not Up-to-date information to be monitored is timely and effectively quickly got, cannot achieve effective monitoring.
Summary of the invention
An aspect of this disclosure provides a kind of server monitoring method, including:The Management Controller of server is based on Sideband data interface obtains the specify information of the network interface card of server;Management Controller is specified the network interface card of acquired server Information is sent to the remote side administration equipment of server, so that the remote side administration equipment is monitored the network interface card of server.
Optionally, the specify information of the network interface card of server includes:The firmware resource information of the network interface card of server.
Optionally, the Management Controller of server obtains the specify information packet of the network interface card of server based on sideband data interface It includes:The network controller of the network interface card of server is controlled by sideband data interface to the management of server in network interface card firmware update Device sends the first instruction, includes updated firmware resource information in first instruction.Management Controller is connect by sideband data Mouth receives first instruction, reads updated firmware resource information from first instruction.
Optionally, firmware resource information is packaged in the designated data structure of above-mentioned first instruction.
Optionally, the Management Controller of server obtains the specify information packet of the network interface card of server based on sideband data interface It includes:The network controller of the network interface card of server is controlled by sideband data interface to the management of server in network interface card firmware update Device sends the second instruction, includes firmware update prompt information in second instruction.Management Controller is connect by sideband data interface Second instruction is received, the firmware update prompt information is read from second instruction, in Server Restart to server Processor sends third instruction.Processor re-reads the firmware of network interface card after receiving third instruction before entering operating system Resource information is simultaneously sent to Management Controller;Management Controller receives the firmware resource information.
Optionally, the firmware update prompt information is:The mark being packaged in the designated data structure of above-mentioned second instruction Know symbol.
Another aspect of the disclosure provides a kind of server, including:Management Controller and network interface card.Management Controller, For obtaining the specify information of the network interface card based on sideband data interface;And for acquired specify information to be sent to The remote side administration equipment of server, so that remote side administration equipment is monitored the network interface card of server.
Optionally, the specify information of network interface card includes:The firmware resource information of network interface card.
Optionally, above-mentioned network interface card includes network controller, in network interface card firmware update by sideband data interface to Management Controller sends the first instruction, includes updated firmware resource information in first instruction.Management Controller, for leading to First instruction of sideband data interface is crossed, reads updated firmware resource information from first instruction.
Optionally, firmware resource information is packaged in the designated data structure of above-mentioned first instruction.
Optionally, above-mentioned server further includes:Processor.Network interface card includes network controller, in network interface card firmware update When by sideband data interface to Management Controller send second instruction, this second instruction in include firmware update prompt information. Management Controller, for reading firmware update prompt from the second instruction by the second instruction described in sideband data interface Information sends third instruction to processor in Server Restart.Processor, for entering behaviour after receiving third instruction The firmware resource information of network interface card is re-read before making system and is sent to Management Controller.Management Controller, it is described for receiving Firmware resource information.
Optionally, firmware update prompt information is:The identifier being packaged in the designated data structure of above-mentioned second instruction.
Detailed description of the invention
In order to which the disclosure and its advantage is more fully understood, referring now to being described below in conjunction with attached drawing, wherein:
Fig. 1 diagrammatically illustrates the application scenarios of server monitoring method and server according to the embodiment of the present disclosure;
Fig. 2 diagrammatically illustrates the flow chart of the server monitoring method according to the embodiment of the present disclosure;
Fig. 3 A diagrammatically illustrates the data flow diagram of the server monitoring method according to the embodiment of the present disclosure;
Fig. 3 B diagrammatically illustrates the data flow diagram of the server monitoring method according to another embodiment of the disclosure;
Fig. 4 diagrammatically illustrates the block diagram of the server according to the embodiment of the present disclosure;
Fig. 5 diagrammatically illustrates the block diagram of the server according to another embodiment of the disclosure;And
Fig. 6 diagrammatically illustrates the block diagram of the server according to the another embodiment of the disclosure.
Specific embodiment
Hereinafter, will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings embodiment of the disclosure.However, it should be understood that these descriptions are only exemplary , and it is not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure.In the following detailed description, to elaborate many specific thin convenient for explaining Section is to provide the comprehensive understanding to the embodiment of the present disclosure.It may be evident, however, that one or more embodiments are not having these specific thin It can also be carried out in the case where section.In addition, in the following description, descriptions of well-known structures and technologies are omitted, to avoid Unnecessarily obscure the concept of the disclosure.
Term as used herein is not intended to limit the disclosure just for the sake of description specific embodiment.It uses herein The terms "include", "comprise" etc. show the presence of the feature, step, operation and/or component, but it is not excluded that in the presence of Or add other one or more features, step, operation or component.
There are all terms (including technical and scientific term) as used herein those skilled in the art to be generally understood Meaning, unless otherwise defined.It should be noted that term used herein should be interpreted that with consistent with the context of this specification Meaning, without that should be explained with idealization or excessively mechanical mode.
It, in general should be according to this using statement as " at least one in A, B and C etc. " is similar to Field technical staff is generally understood the meaning of the statement to make an explanation (for example, " system at least one in A, B and C " Should include but is not limited to individually with A, individually with B, individually with C, with A and B, with A and C, have B and C, and/or System etc. with A, B, C).Using statement as " at least one in A, B or C etc. " is similar to, generally come Saying be generally understood the meaning of the statement according to those skilled in the art to make an explanation (for example, " having in A, B or C at least One system " should include but is not limited to individually with A, individually with B, individually with C, with A and B, have A and C, have B and C, and/or the system with A, B, C etc.).It should also be understood by those skilled in the art that substantially arbitrarily indicating two or more The adversative conjunction and/or phrase of optional project shall be construed as either in specification, claims or attached drawing A possibility that giving including one of these projects, either one or two projects of these projects.For example, phrase " A or B " should A possibility that being understood to include " A " or " B " or " A and B ".
Shown in the drawings of some block diagrams and/or flow chart.It should be understood that some sides in block diagram and/or flow chart Frame or combinations thereof can be realized by computer program instructions.These computer program instructions can be supplied to general purpose computer, The processor of special purpose computer or other programmable data processing units, so that these instructions are when executed by this processor can be with Creation is for realizing function/operation device illustrated in these block diagrams and/or flow chart.
Therefore, the technology of the disclosure can be realized in the form of hardware and/or software (including firmware, microcode etc.).Separately Outside, the technology of the disclosure can take the form of the computer program product on the computer-readable medium for being stored with instruction, should Computer program product uses for instruction execution system or instruction execution system is combined to use.In the context of the disclosure In, computer-readable medium, which can be, can include, store, transmitting, propagating or transmitting the arbitrary medium of instruction.For example, calculating Machine readable medium can include but is not limited to electricity, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared or semiconductor system, device, device or propagation medium. The specific example of computer-readable medium includes:Magnetic memory apparatus, such as tape or hard disk (HDD);Light storage device, such as CD (CD-ROM);Memory, such as random access memory (RAM) or flash memory;And/or wire/wireless communication link.
Fig. 1 diagrammatically illustrates the application scenarios of server monitoring method and server according to the embodiment of the present disclosure.It needs It should be noted that being only the example that can apply the scene of the embodiment of the present disclosure shown in Fig. 1, to help those skilled in the art to manage The technology contents of the disclosure are solved, but are not meant to that the embodiment of the present disclosure may not be usable for other equipment, system, environment or field Scape.
As shown in Figure 1, the application scenarios may include server 101, network 102 and remote side administration equipment 103.Server 101, as the basic computational ele- ment in data center, can be to provide the server of various services, herein with no restrictions.
Network 102 between server 101 and remote side administration equipment 103 to provide the medium of communication link.Network 102 It may include various connection types, such as wired, wireless communication link or fiber optic cables etc..
Remote side administration equipment 103 is interacted by network 102 with server 101, by receiving or sending the realization pair such as message The operation such as management, control, monitoring and alarm of function, component, physical features, the operating status of server 101 etc., such as monitoring clothes Temperature, voltage, fan operating state, power supply supply and cabinet invasion of each component of business device etc..Remote side administration equipment 103 can To be the various electronic equipments with output function (display, indicator light etc.) and/or input function.
It should be noted that server monitoring method provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure can generally be held by server 101 Row, gets data to be monitored by server 101 and is then forwarded to remote side administration equipment 103 and be monitored.
It should be understood that the number of server, network and remote side administration equipment in Fig. 1 is only schematical.According to reality It now needs, can have any number of server, network and remote side administration equipment.
Fig. 2 diagrammatically illustrates the flow chart of the server monitoring method according to the embodiment of the present disclosure.
As shown in Fig. 2, this method includes operation S201~S202.
In operation S201, the Management Controller of server obtains the specified letter of the network interface card of server based on sideband data interface Breath.
The Management Controller of server can be regarded as a small-scale operating system independently of server system, effect It is to interact remotely to manage, monitor, install, restart etc. operation with realize server with remote side administration equipment.The management of server Controller can be supported sideband data interface (NC-SI, Network Controller-Sideband Interface), service The network interface card of device can support sideband data interface, and accordingly, this operation is based on sideband data interface and realizes Management Controller and network interface card Between information transmitting.
In operation S202, the specify information of the network interface card of acquired server is sent to clothes by the Management Controller of server The remote side administration equipment of business device, so that remote side administration equipment is monitored the network interface card of server.
In this operation, Management Controller sends out the specify information of the network interface card of the server got based on sideband data interface Remote side administration equipment is given, remote side administration equipment is realized according to the specify information of the network interface card of the server received to server The monitoring of network interface card.
As it can be seen that method shown in Fig. 2 using sideband data interface establish server Management Controller and network interface card it is straight Letter is connected, Management Controller obtains the specify information of network interface card based on sideband data interface, then the specify information of network interface card is sent to The remote side administration equipment of server realizes monitoring of the remote side administration equipment to the network interface card of server.On the one hand, this programme avoids The case where prior art can not get network interface card information in server quick start, on the other hand, this programme and the prior art Reading network interface card information, which is retransmited to the scheme of remote side administration equipment, before server normally launches into operating system compares, energy It is enough more quickly, accurately and timely to get corresponding network interface card information to be monitored, it is the server monitoring side more optimized Case.
In one embodiment of the present disclosure, the specify information of the network interface card of server includes:The firmware of the network interface card of server Resource information.The firmware resource information of network interface card may include various information relevant to network interface card firmware, such as firmware type, firmware version Sheet, installed date, rollback firmware version, mounted firmware version, distributor information, revisions number, information of the network port etc. Etc. one or more.When the remote side administration equipment of server is monitored the network interface card of server, pass through consolidating for monitoring network interface card Part resource information can know the various performance state indicators of the network interface card of server, and then can know its in network interface card and server The collaborative work interaction scenario of his element.When the firmware of the network interface card of server updates, server needs will be updated Firmware resource information is sent to remote side administration equipment and is monitored.
It is operated in S201 in one embodiment of the present disclosure to get the firmware resource information of the network interface card of server The Management Controller of server can be based on the specify information for the network interface card that sideband data interface obtains server:In server In the case that the firmware of network interface card does not update, the network controller of the network interface card of server passes through sideband data interface to server Management Controller send first instruction, this first instruction in include network interface card original firmware resource information.When the net of server When the firmware of card updates, the network controller of the network interface card of server in network interface card firmware update by sideband data interface to The Management Controller of server sends the first instruction, includes updated firmware resource information in first instruction.Then service The first instruction that the Management Controller of device is sent by sideband data interface network controller is read from first instruction Take the updated firmware resource information of the network interface card of the initial firmware resource information and/or server of the network interface card of server.
The present embodiment is established straight between Management Controller and network controller in server using sideband data interface Letter is connected, the data packet that network controller will carry the first instruction of the firmware resource information of network interface card by sideband data interface passes It is defeated by Management Controller, Management Controller is able to directly receive the newest firmware resource information of network interface card, without passing through service Whether reading and transfer of the processor of device to the newest firmware resource information of network interface card, the process and server start, with what Kind mode starting is not related, normal instead of server is necessarily required in the prior art when network interface card firmware updates Starting can just read the mode of updated firmware resource information, more quick and convenient.
Wherein, the mode for the firmware resource information that the first instruction carries network interface card can be:Firmware resource information is packaged in In the designated data structure of first instruction.
S201 is operated in another embodiment of the disclosure to get the firmware resource information of the network interface card of server The Management Controller of middle server includes based on the specify information of network interface card that sideband data interface obtains server:The net of server The network controller of card sends second to the Management Controller of server by sideband data interface in network interface card firmware update and refers to It enables, the firmware update prompt information of the network interface card comprising server in second instruction.The Management Controller of server passes through side Band data-interface receives second instruction, and the firmware update prompt information of the network interface card of reading service device, is taking from the second instruction Business, which is thought highly of, sends third instruction to the processor of server when opening.The processor of server is entering after receiving third instruction The firmware resource information of network interface card is re-read before operating system and is sent to the Management Controller of server, the management control of server Device processed receives the firmware resource information re-read.
The present embodiment is established straight between Management Controller and network controller in server using sideband data interface Letter is connected, network controller will carry the data of the second instruction of the firmware update prompt information of network interface card by sideband data interface Packet is transferred to Management Controller, and Management Controller is able to directly learn the message that the firmware of network interface card updates, then manages control Device processed sends third instruction to the processor of server in Server Restart, so that processor is instructed according to third in server The newest firmware resource information of network interface card is re-read before into operating system and is then forwarded to Management Controller, i.e. Management Controller exists After the firmware update for knowing the network interface card of server, the newest firmware of network interface card for getting server by the processor of server is provided Source information.Should during, based on sideband data interface management controller can the message that updates of timely learning network interface card firmware, And then the instruction based on third instruction can be made to the processor of server, it avoids server when network interface card firmware updates and adopts The problem of being restarted with fast attack mode and causing processor that can not read the newest firmware resource information of network interface card.
Wherein, the firmware update prompt information of network interface card entrained in the second instruction can be expressed as being packaged in described second Identifier in the designated data structure of instruction.
Below with reference to Fig. 3 A~Fig. 3 B, the various embodiments described above are illustrated in conjunction with specific example.Fig. 3 A is schematically shown According to the data flow diagram of the server monitoring method of the embodiment of the present disclosure, Fig. 3 B is diagrammatically illustrated according to another reality of the disclosure Apply the data flow diagram of the server monitoring method of example.
As shown in Figure 3A, which describes the process that data are transferred to remote side administration equipment from server.Service Device includes Management Controller and network controller.Management Controller can be BMC chip in this example, be also possible to IMM chip, i.e., Management Controller can be in accordance with Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI, Intelligent Platform Management Interface) various chip/controllers of agreement, herein with no restrictions, wherein IPMI is the remote side administration for realizing server Basis.On the one hand network controller is connected to external network interface and internal host interface, another aspect and and Management Controller Between have a sideband data interface (NC-SI).Server can use PCIE network interface card in this example, can also be had using other The network interface card of sideband data interface, herein with no restrictions.
Network controller is based in bottom hardware communication interaction protocol (PLDM, Platform level Data Module) About the agreement of sideband data interface, the newest firmware resource Information encapsulation of the network interface card of server, which is become, directly to be transmitted To the data packet of Management Controller, which, can be in the form of command data structure from network control as the first instruction Device processed is sent to Management Controller by sideband data interface.Transmission opportunity can be transmission when Server Restart, It can be the transmission when network interface card firmware updates, depending on demand, herein with no restrictions.
After Management Controller receives the first instruction, reading service device network interface card is newest from the data packet of the first instruction Firmware resource information, which is sent to by remote side administration equipment based on IPMI protocol, so that remote side administration is set It can be with the newest firmware resource information of display server network interface card, to be monitored to server network card in standby screen.
As it can be seen that the processor that the above process does not need server passes through unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) firmware resource of network interface card is individually read before server enters operating system Information can according to need and reduce server from the time started into operating system, provides better user experience.Wherein UEFI is a kind of standard that style interface is described in detail, this interface for operating system automatically from the operating environment of pretrigger, It is loaded into a kind of operating system, is mainly provided in and does some customization or standard before server enters operating system Operation.
As shown in Figure 3B, which describes the process that data are transferred to remote side administration equipment from server.Service Device includes Management Controller, network controller and processor.Management Controller can be BMC chip in this example, be also possible to IMM Chip, i.e. Management Controller can be various chip/controllers in accordance with IPMI protocol, and herein with no restrictions, wherein IPMI is Realize the basis of the remote side administration of server.On the one hand network controller is connected to external network interface and internal host interface, On the other hand there is a sideband data interface (NC-SI) between Management Controller again.Server can use PCIE in this example Network interface card can also use other network interface cards with sideband data interface, herein with no restrictions.
Network controller is updated based on the agreement in PLDM about sideband data interface in the firmware of server network interface card Afterwards, the firmware update prompt information of server network interface card is encapsulated into the second instruction that can be directly passed to Management Controller, Second instruction can be sent to management control from network controller by sideband data interface in the form of PLDM event message Device, specifically, firmware update prompt information can be the identifier in PLDM event message, such as most simplifiedly, and second refers to Order is an identifier for indicating the firmware of server network interface card and updating with PLDM event message transmission.Indicate network Controller informs that the firmware of Management Controller server network interface card updates by sideband data interface, and server is needed to open again Network interface card newest firmware resource information is obtained when dynamic.
After the identifier that the firmware that Management Controller receives expression server network interface card updates, Management Controller notice The processor of server indicates that the third for the firmware resource information for informing that processor reacquires server network interface card is instructed from management Controller is sent to processor, and specifically, the communication hardware connection type between Management Controller and processor has PCIE interface And USB interface, for example, when server is when starting booting, processor first can if the exchange of the information between realizing Preset uefi code is run, when uefi code runs to DXE phase, the UEFI of processor can go to send corresponding life It enables to Management Controller, to obtain the information that Management Controller is provided to the UEFI of processor, if third instructs, at this In the process, Management Controller can instruct the third for indicating the firmware resource information for needing processor to reacquire a network interface card Quick start would not be opened when the UEFI of processor receives the instruction of this third by being sent to the UEFI of processor Process only allows server normally to start, the UEFI of such processor can read service before entering operating system The firmware resource information of device network interface card, and the firmware resource information read is back to Management Controller.Wherein uefi code is transported Processor executes the initial work of most of system when row arrives DXE phase, this stage memory can be made completely With, thus this stage can carry out a large amount of complex work.The UEFI of processor reads service before entering operating system The concrete mode of the firmware resource information of device network interface card can be, by using a software module inside UEFI --- without generation It manages resource information management module (AIM, Agentless Inventory Management Module) tool and grabs server network The firmware resource information of card.
Management Controller is believed the firmware resource based on IPMI protocol after the firmware resource information for obtaining server network interface card Breath is sent to remote side administration equipment, so that can be provided in the screen of remote side administration equipment with the newest firmware of display server network interface card Source information, to be monitored to server network card.
As it can be seen that the above process does not need the firmware resource information of network controller transmission server network interface card, it need to only pass through side Band data-interface sends a PLDM event message to Management Controller, a label is done, to inform Management Controller The firmware resource information of network interface card is reacquired by processor.
It should be noted that various specific protocol names, data knot mentioned in example shown in Fig. 3 A~Fig. 3 B Structure title, element title, tool title etc. are for being illustrated more clearly that the above logic of each embodiment and are lifted Example, the disclosure is not caused to limit, any agreement for meeting above-mentioned logic, data structure, element, tool etc. are suitable for this It is open.
Fig. 4 diagrammatically illustrates the block diagram of the server according to the embodiment of the present disclosure.
As shown in figure 4, server 400 includes Management Controller 410 and network interface card 420.The server 400 can execute above With reference to the method that Fig. 2~Fig. 3 B is described, to realize a kind of improved server monitoring process.
Specifically, Management Controller 410, for obtaining the specify information of network interface card 420 based on sideband data interface;And For the specify information of acquired network interface card 420 to be sent to the remote side administration equipment of server 400, so that remote side administration equipment Network interface card 420 is monitored.
As it can be seen that server by utilizing sideband data interface shown in Fig. 4 establishes the direct communication of Management Controller and network interface card, Management Controller obtains the specify information of network interface card based on sideband data interface, then the specify information of network interface card is sent to server Remote side administration equipment realizes monitoring of the remote side administration equipment to the network interface card of server.On the one hand, this programme avoids the prior art The case where network interface card information can not be got in server quick start, on the other hand, this programme and the prior art are in server Reading network interface card information, which is retransmited to the scheme of remote side administration equipment, before normally launching into operating system compares, and can more accelerate Speed accurately and timely gets corresponding network interface card information to be monitored, is the server monitoring scheme more optimized.
In one embodiment of the present disclosure, the specify information of network interface card 420 includes:The firmware resource information of network interface card.
Fig. 5 diagrammatically illustrates the block diagram of the server according to another embodiment of the disclosure.As shown in figure 5, server 500 Including Management Controller 410 and network interface card 420, network interface card 420 includes network controller 421.
Wherein, Management Controller 410 and network interface card 420 had hereinbefore carried out explanation, and duplicate part repeats no more.
The network controller 421 of network interface card 420, for passing through sideband data interface in 420 firmware update of network interface card to management Controller 410 sends the first instruction, includes the updated firmware resource information of network interface card 420 in the first instruction.
Management Controller 410 reads network interface card from the first instruction for instructing by sideband data interface first 420 updated firmware resource information.
Management Controller 410, for the firmware resource information of acquired network interface card 420 to be sent to the remote of server 400 Management equipment is held, so that remote side administration equipment is monitored network interface card 420.
In one embodiment of the present disclosure, the mode for the firmware resource information that the first instruction carries network interface card can be:Gu Part resource information is packaged in the designated data structure of first instruction.
Fig. 6 diagrammatically illustrates the block diagram of the server according to the another embodiment of the disclosure.As shown in fig. 6, server 600 Including Management Controller 410, network interface card 420 and processor 430, network interface card 420 includes network controller 422.
Wherein, Management Controller 410 and network interface card 420 had hereinbefore carried out explanation, and duplicate part repeats no more.
The network controller 422 of network interface card 420, for passing through sideband data interface in 420 firmware update of network interface card to management Controller 410 sends the second instruction, includes the firmware update prompt information of network interface card 420 in the second instruction.
Management Controller 410 reads network interface card from the second instruction for instructing by sideband data interface second 420 firmware update prompt information sends third instruction to processor 430 when server 600 is restarted.
Processor 430, for re-reading the firmware of network interface card 420 before entering operating system after receiving third instruction Resource information is simultaneously sent to Management Controller 410.
Management Controller 410, for receiving the firmware resource information of network interface card 420.
Wherein, the firmware update prompt information of network interface card entrained in the second instruction can be expressed as being packaged in described second Identifier in the designated data structure of instruction.
Server shown in figure 4 above~Fig. 6 is only an example, should not function and use to the embodiment of the present disclosure Range band carrys out any restrictions.
It should be noted that Management Controller 410, network interface card 420, processor 430 in Fig. 4~each embodiment shown in fig. 6 Embodiment, the technical issues of solving, the function of realization and the technical effect that reaches respectively and in method section Example The embodiment of the step of each correspondence, the technical issues of solving, the function of realization and the technical effect that reaches is identical or class Seemingly, details are not described herein.
Flow chart and block diagram in attached drawing are illustrated according to the system of the various embodiments of the disclosure, method and computer journey The architecture, function and operation in the cards of sequence product.In this regard, each box in flowchart or block diagram can generation A part of one module, program segment or code of table, a part of above-mentioned module, program segment or code include one or more Executable instruction for implementing the specified logical function.It should also be noted that in some implementations as replacements, institute in box The function of mark can also occur in a different order than that indicated in the drawings.For example, two boxes succeedingly indicated are practical On can be basically executed in parallel, they can also be executed in the opposite order sometimes, and this depends on the function involved.Also it wants It is noted that the combination of each box in block diagram or flow chart and the box in block diagram or flow chart, can use and execute rule The dedicated hardware based systems of fixed functions or operations is realized, or can use the group of specialized hardware and computer instruction It closes to realize.
It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the feature recorded in each embodiment and/or claim of the disclosure can To carry out multiple combinations or/or combination, even if such combination or combination are not expressly recited in the disclosure.Particularly, exist In the case where not departing from disclosure spirit or teaching, the feature recorded in each embodiment and/or claim of the disclosure can To carry out multiple combinations and/or combination.All these combinations and/or combination each fall within the scope of the present disclosure.
Although the disclosure, art technology has shown and described referring to the certain exemplary embodiments of the disclosure Personnel it should be understood that in the case where the spirit and scope of the present disclosure limited without departing substantially from the following claims and their equivalents, A variety of changes in form and details can be carried out to the disclosure.Therefore, the scope of the present disclosure should not necessarily be limited by above-described embodiment, But should be not only determined by appended claims, also it is defined by the equivalent of appended claims.

Claims (10)

1. a kind of server monitoring method, including:
The Management Controller of server obtains the specify information of the network interface card of server based on sideband data interface;
The specify information of the network interface card of acquired server is sent to the remote side administration equipment of server by the Management Controller, So that the remote side administration equipment is monitored the network interface card of server.
2. according to the method described in claim 1, wherein, the specify information of the network interface card of server includes consolidating for the network interface card of server Part resource information.
3. according to the method described in claim 2, wherein, the Management Controller of server is based on sideband data interface and obtains service The specify information of the network interface card of device includes:
Management control of the network controller of the network interface card of server in network interface card firmware update by sideband data interface to server Device processed sends the first instruction, includes updated firmware resource information in first instruction;
The Management Controller is by the first instruction described in sideband data interface, after reading update in first instruction Firmware resource information.
4. according to the method described in claim 3, wherein, the firmware resource information is packaged in the specified of first instruction In data structure.
5. according to the method described in claim 2, wherein, the Management Controller of server is based on sideband data interface and obtains service The specify information of the network interface card of device includes:
Management control of the network controller of the network interface card of server in network interface card firmware update by sideband data interface to server Device processed sends the second instruction, includes firmware update prompt information in second instruction;
The Management Controller is read described solid by the second instruction described in sideband data interface from second instruction Part updates prompt information, sends third instruction to the processor of server in Server Restart;
The processor re-reads the firmware resource information of network interface card simultaneously before entering operating system after receiving third instruction It is sent to the Management Controller;
The Management Controller receives the firmware resource information.
6. according to the method described in claim 5, wherein, the firmware update prompt information is to be packaged in second instruction Identifier in designated data structure.
7. a kind of server, including:Management Controller and network interface card;
The Management Controller, for obtaining the specify information of the network interface card based on sideband data interface;And for will be obtained The specify information taken is sent to the remote side administration equipment of server, so that the remote side administration equipment supervises the network interface card Control.
8. server according to claim 7, wherein:
The specify information of network interface card includes:The firmware resource information of network interface card.
9. server according to claim 8, wherein:
The network interface card includes network controller, for being controlled by sideband data interface to the management in network interface card firmware update Device sends the first instruction, includes updated firmware resource information in first instruction;
The Management Controller, for being read from first instruction by the first instruction described in sideband data interface Updated firmware resource information.
10. server according to claim 8, further includes:Processor;
The network interface card includes network controller, for being controlled by sideband data interface to the management in network interface card firmware update Device sends the second instruction, includes firmware update prompt information in second instruction;
The Management Controller, for being read from second instruction by the second instruction described in sideband data interface The firmware update prompt information sends third instruction to the processor in Server Restart;
The processor, for re-reading the firmware resource letter of network interface card before entering operating system after receiving third instruction It ceases and is sent to the Management Controller;
The Management Controller, for receiving the firmware resource information.
CN201810513006.7A 2018-05-24 2018-05-24 Server monitoring method and server Active CN108847959B (en)

Priority Applications (1)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
CN201810513006.7A CN108847959B (en) 2018-05-24 2018-05-24 Server monitoring method and server

Applications Claiming Priority (1)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
CN201810513006.7A CN108847959B (en) 2018-05-24 2018-05-24 Server monitoring method and server

Publications (2)

Publication Number Publication Date
CN108847959A true CN108847959A (en) 2018-11-20
CN108847959B CN108847959B (en) 2021-01-15

Family

ID=64213512

Family Applications (1)

Application Number Title Priority Date Filing Date
CN201810513006.7A Active CN108847959B (en) 2018-05-24 2018-05-24 Server monitoring method and server

Country Status (1)

Country Link
CN (1) CN108847959B (en)

Cited By (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
CN111988810A (en) * 2020-08-13 2020-11-24 苏州浪潮智能科技有限公司 Wireless server supervision method based on MIWI and mesh networking device
CN112953788A (en) * 2021-01-22 2021-06-11 浪潮电子信息产业股份有限公司 Network state detection method and device, BMC and storage medium
CN115632900A (en) * 2022-08-31 2023-01-20 超聚变数字技术有限公司 Computing device

Citations (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
CN104202195A (en) * 2014-09-10 2014-12-10 华为技术有限公司 Server unified communication method, baseboard management controller (BMC) and server
GB2532054A (en) * 2014-11-07 2016-05-11 Ibm NC-SI port controller
CN105897471A (en) * 2016-04-05 2016-08-24 浪潮电子信息产业股份有限公司 Out-of-band management system and out-of-band management method
CN107026759A (en) * 2017-04-21 2017-08-08 深圳市同泰怡信息技术有限公司 The firmware and its development approach of a kind of remote management BBU modules based on BMC
CN107143513A (en) * 2017-04-21 2017-09-08 深圳市同泰怡信息技术有限公司 Server fan control strategy remote management formula firmware development method based on BMC
US20180077245A1 (en) * 2016-09-13 2018-03-15 American Megatrends, Inc. System and method for providing multiple ipmi serial over lan (sol) sessions in management controller stack

Patent Citations (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
CN104202195A (en) * 2014-09-10 2014-12-10 华为技术有限公司 Server unified communication method, baseboard management controller (BMC) and server
GB2532054A (en) * 2014-11-07 2016-05-11 Ibm NC-SI port controller
CN105897471A (en) * 2016-04-05 2016-08-24 浪潮电子信息产业股份有限公司 Out-of-band management system and out-of-band management method
US20180077245A1 (en) * 2016-09-13 2018-03-15 American Megatrends, Inc. System and method for providing multiple ipmi serial over lan (sol) sessions in management controller stack
CN107026759A (en) * 2017-04-21 2017-08-08 深圳市同泰怡信息技术有限公司 The firmware and its development approach of a kind of remote management BBU modules based on BMC
CN107143513A (en) * 2017-04-21 2017-09-08 深圳市同泰怡信息技术有限公司 Server fan control strategy remote management formula firmware development method based on BMC

Cited By (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
CN111988810A (en) * 2020-08-13 2020-11-24 苏州浪潮智能科技有限公司 Wireless server supervision method based on MIWI and mesh networking device
CN111988810B (en) * 2020-08-13 2022-12-09 苏州浪潮智能科技有限公司 Wireless server supervision method based on MIWI and mesh networking device
CN112953788A (en) * 2021-01-22 2021-06-11 浪潮电子信息产业股份有限公司 Network state detection method and device, BMC and storage medium
CN115632900A (en) * 2022-08-31 2023-01-20 超聚变数字技术有限公司 Computing device
CN115632900B (en) * 2022-08-31 2023-09-01 超聚变数字技术有限公司 Computing equipment

Also Published As

Publication number Publication date
CN108847959B (en) 2021-01-15

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
CN105653425B (en) Monitoring system based on complex event processing engine
CN103475677B (en) The method, apparatus and system of dummy node are managed in a kind of PaaS cloud platforms
CN109634686A (en) A kind of method and system by BMC remote configuration server state
CN108847959A (en) Server monitoring method and server
CN103365667A (en) Method and device for installing operating system in host system
US20140321460A1 (en) Communication path switching device, communication path switching method and communication path switching program
CN109861839A (en) The unbroken virtual switch upgrade method of business and relevant device
US11636016B2 (en) Cloud simulation and validation system
WO2015158120A1 (en) Method and apparatus for upgrading software version
US10892961B2 (en) Application- and infrastructure-aware orchestration for cloud monitoring applications
CN108897575A (en) The configuration method and configuration system of electronic equipment
CN107924330A (en) Technology for integrated thread scheduling
CN103944814A (en) Data exchange method and system and gateway server
CN105051692A (en) Automated failure handling through isolation
JP6195465B2 (en) Remote card content management using synchronous server-side scripting
US20140108937A1 (en) Model-Based Configuration Capture and Replay in a Converged Infrastructure System to Support Remote Troubleshooting
CN109165261A (en) Method of data synchronization, device, server and computer storage medium
US20080010315A1 (en) Platform management of high-availability computer systems
US20130138856A1 (en) Method and apparatus for node hot-swapping
CN110399253A (en) Delay machine treating method and apparatus
KR102149529B1 (en) Industrial communication system and method
US20150212834A1 (en) Interoperation method of newtork device performed by computing device including cloud operating system in could environment
CN107592340A (en) The method and apparatus of remote operation management server
Lai et al. A design framework of automatic deployment for 5G network slicing
CN110417593A (en) A kind of device management method and device

Legal Events

Date Code Title Description
PB01 Publication
PB01 Publication
SE01 Entry into force of request for substantive examination
SE01 Entry into force of request for substantive examination
GR01 Patent grant
GR01 Patent grant