CN110557460A

CN110557460A - Monitoring system for infrastructure equipment of data center

Info

Publication number: CN110557460A
Application number: CN201910899766.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 刘星
Original assignee: Excellent Polytron Technologies Inc
Current assignee: Excellent Polytron Technologies Inc
Priority date: 2019-09-23
Filing date: 2019-09-23
Publication date: 2019-12-10

Abstract

The invention provides a monitoring system of infrastructure equipment of a data center, which comprises: the system comprises a field data acquisition assembly, a monitoring module and a monitoring module, wherein the field data acquisition assembly is arranged in a plurality of data centers and comprises an exchanger and wireless acquisition equipment, the exchanger is in communication connection with the wireless acquisition equipment, and monitoring interfaces of all infrastructure equipment of the data centers are in communication connection with the exchanger; the switch receives the monitoring data of each infrastructure device through the monitoring interface of each infrastructure device and transmits the monitoring data to the wireless acquisition device; the wireless acquisition equipment analyzes the received monitoring data by a data transmission protocol and sends the analyzed monitoring data based on the wireless data transmission protocol of the wireless acquisition equipment; the cloud server is in wireless communication connection with the wireless acquisition devices of the data centers, receives the analyzed monitoring data sent by each wireless acquisition device, and stores and processes the analyzed monitoring data.

Description

Monitoring system for infrastructure equipment of data center

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of infrastructure management of a data center, in particular to a monitoring system of infrastructure equipment of the data center.

Background

with more and more enterprises building a plurality of data centers in various places, how to integrate infrastructure data of the plurality of data centers into a set of enterprise-level infrastructure unified monitoring and management platform, and realizing unified management of the plurality of data centers becomes an important subject faced by the enterprises.

At present, the market has the problems of various types of terminal acquisition equipment, non-uniform standards, uneven quality and the like, so that the defects of poor operation performance of the terminal acquisition equipment, incapability of uploading real-time operation data and alarm data of the terminal equipment and the like are caused.

in addition, the monitoring systems in various places and the unified monitoring management platform of the enterprise need to be in butt joint in a system platform-level butt joint mode; when the data center monitoring system of each site adopts systems of different manufacturers, an enterprise needs to perform secondary development work aiming at each monitoring equipment manufacturer; the development workload is large, the difficulty is high, and under the scene of large uploaded data volume, the system is unstable in operation and the data refreshing time is slow.

disclosure of Invention

In order to solve the above possible technical problems, the present application provides a monitoring system for infrastructure equipment of a data center.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a monitoring system for infrastructure equipment of a data center, including:

The field data acquisition assembly is arranged in a plurality of data centers and comprises an exchanger and wireless acquisition equipment, the exchanger is in communication connection with the wireless acquisition equipment, and monitoring interfaces of all infrastructure equipment of the data centers are in communication connection with the exchanger;

Wherein, according to a data transmission protocol of the monitoring data of each infrastructure equipment, the switch receives the monitoring data of each infrastructure equipment via the respective monitoring interface of the infrastructure equipment and transmits the monitoring data to the wireless acquisition equipment;

The wireless acquisition equipment analyzes the received monitoring data through the data transmission protocol and sends the analyzed monitoring data based on the wireless data transmission protocol of the wireless acquisition equipment; and

the cloud server is in wireless communication connection with the wireless acquisition devices of the data center, receives the analyzed monitoring data sent by each wireless acquisition device, and stores and processes the analyzed monitoring data.

In some embodiments, the monitoring system further includes a unified monitoring platform, where the unified monitoring platform obtains the processed monitoring data from the cloud server, and establishes a monitoring sub-platform for each of the plurality of data centers respectively based on the processed monitoring data, and monitors each infrastructure device of the corresponding data center in the monitoring sub-platform in real time.

In some embodiments, the unified monitoring platform is disposed on the cloud server.

In some embodiments, the wireless collection device performing the data transmission protocol analysis on the received monitoring data and sending the analyzed monitoring data based on a wireless data transmission protocol of the wireless collection device further includes the wireless collection device analyzing the monitoring data transmitted by using a Modbus RTU or a Modbus TCP protocol and sending the analyzed monitoring data by using an SNMP protocol.

In some embodiments, the wireless acquisition device further includes a 4G network card and a memory, the wireless acquisition device is connected to the cloud server through a 4G network via the 4G network card in a wireless communication manner, and the memory is configured to store the parsed monitoring data.

In some embodiments, the wireless acquisition device sends the alert information of the wireless acquisition device based on the wireless data transmission protocol.

In some embodiments, the cloud server performs corresponding flexible capacity expansion based on an increase in the number of data centers.

In some embodiments, the cloud server performs load balancing based on the number of infrastructure devices of the data center.

In some embodiments, the data center infrastructure equipment includes, high voltage dc equipment, UPS, switch boards, column head cabinets, and precision air conditioners.

Compared with the prior art, the implementation mode of the application has the main differences and the effects that:

The embodiment of this application breaks through traditional scheme in the past, adopts the mode that sets up the wireless collection equipment of 4G in data center, not only realizes collecting and keeping watch on infrastructure equipment monitoring data such as electrical equipment in the local data center, warm logical equipment, environmental quantity monitoring facilities, and the mode that the unified control management platform of enterprise level was through the wireless collection equipment collection data of 4G of direct following each local data center realizes the integration of each local data center infrastructure data moreover.

In addition, the method and the system solve the problems of long acquisition equipment delay time, more cables and long construction time caused by different terminal equipment acquisition schemes adopted by the data center infrastructure monitoring system of each station in the past project; the problem of in the past project, because adopt the monitored control system software of different producers, when the enterprise sets up unified monitoring management platform, need do development work many times to the northbound interface protocol of different producers, development cycle is long, the development degree of difficulty is big is solved.

Drawings

Fig. 1 shows a hardware schematic of a monitoring system of infrastructure equipment of a data center according to an embodiment of the invention.

Detailed Description

in order to make the purpose and technical solution of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solution of the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings of the embodiments of the present invention. It is to be understood that the embodiments described are only a few embodiments of the present invention, and not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the described embodiments of the invention without any inventive step, are within the scope of protection of the invention.

In the prior art, for the construction of an enterprise-level unified monitoring management platform, a set of infrastructure monitoring system is mainly constructed locally for monitoring infrastructure equipment of a local data center; meanwhile, the local infrastructure monitoring system realizes data integration with an enterprise-level unified monitoring management platform in a software Northbound Interface (Northbound Interface) mode. This is generally achieved in two parts:

A. Establishing a local data center monitoring system:

The local data center monitoring system consists of terminal acquisition equipment, a monitoring system server and monitoring system software. The terminal acquisition equipment and the monitored equipment are connected by cables, and data are transmitted between the terminal acquisition equipment and the monitored equipment through standard protocols such as a Modbus RTU (remote terminal unit) or Modbus TCP (transmission control protocol). The monitoring system server usually adopts a master-slave mode and is mainly responsible for the work of integral data processing, storage, localized display and the like. The monitoring system software is responsible for the configuration display, alarm processing, report making and other works of the data.

B. Integration of infrastructure monitoring systems of data centers in various regions

the infrastructure monitoring system of each local data center uploads local monitoring data to an enterprise-level infrastructure monitoring management platform according to the requirement of a predetermined northbound interface form, and the commonly used northbound interface form comprises OPCClasic, OPC UA and ODCC northbound interface standards.

According to an embodiment of the invention, a monitoring system for infrastructure equipment of a data center is provided.

Fig. 1 is a hardware schematic of a monitoring system 100 for infrastructure equipment of a data center according to an embodiment of the present invention. The system 100 includes a unified monitoring platform 110, a cloud server 120, and wireless collection devices 131A-C and switches 132A-C disposed in respective data centers 130A-C, where each set of wireless collection devices and switches (i.e., 131A and 132A, 131B and 132B, and 131C and 132C) may also be referred to as field data collection components. In the figures, the letter following the reference number, e.g., "131A," indicates a reference to the element having that particular reference number. The reference number without a subsequent letter in the text, e.g. "131", indicates a general reference to the embodiment of the element bearing the reference number.

As shown in fig. 1, the field data collecting assembly is provided in a plurality of data centers 130A, 130B, and 130C, and includes a switch and a wireless collecting device, and the switch and the wireless collecting device are communicatively connected by hardware such as a network cable.

Wireless acquisition devices 131A-C may include a processor, a network card, and memory. The processor may include, but is not limited to, a central processing unit CPU, an image processor GPU, a digital signal processor DSP, a microprocessor MCU, or a programmable logic device FPGA.

The memory can be used for storing monitoring data such as parsed monitoring data, software programs and modules of application software, and the processor executes various functional applications and data processing by running the software programs and modules stored in the memory, so as to realize various functions of the wireless acquisition device. The memory may include high speed random access memory, and may also include non-volatile memory, such as one or more magnetic storage devices, flash memory, or other non-volatile solid-state memory.

the network card is used to receive or transmit data via a mobile communications network, such as a 4G or 5G network, which may include various wireless communications links conforming to the 4G or 5G standards. The wireless acquisition equipment is in wireless communication connection with the cloud server through the network card.

it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that the wireless acquisition devices 131A-C shown in fig. 1 are merely illustrative and are not intended to limit the structure of the electronic apparatus. For example, wireless capture devices 131A-C may also include more or fewer components, or have different configurations.

The data centers 130A-C include various infrastructure equipment, such as first-tier cabinets 133A-C, UPS (uninterruptible power supply) 134A-C, power distribution cabinets 135A-C, HVDC (high voltage direct current) equipment 136A-C, and precision air conditioners 137A-C. The monitoring interfaces of the respective infrastructure equipment are communicatively connected to the switch via hardware, such as a network cable. The individual infrastructure devices and switches typically communicate data via standard protocols such as Modbus RTU or Modbus TCP.

In some embodiments, the switch receives the monitoring data for each infrastructure device via its respective monitoring interface and transmits the monitoring data to the wireless collection device according to a data transmission protocol for the monitoring data for each infrastructure device. The wireless acquisition equipment analyzes the received monitoring data by the data transmission protocol, and transmits the analyzed monitoring data based on the wireless data transmission protocol of the wireless acquisition equipment.

As an example, in the case where the monitoring interface of each infrastructure equipment is a portal, the infrastructure equipment is directly connected to the switch through a network cable; under the condition that one or more monitoring interfaces of the infrastructure equipment are serial ports, the serial port-network port conversion equipment is installed on the infrastructure equipment, and then the infrastructure equipment is connected with the switch through a network cable.

According to the embodiment of the application, the wireless acquisition device 131 has a function of processing and analyzing the monitoring data. In the system operation process, the wireless acquisition device 131 analyzes the monitoring data transmitted by using a Modbus RTU or a Modbus TCP protocol, and transmits the analyzed monitoring data by using an SNMP protocol. In addition, in some examples, the wireless acquisition device 131 performs data format conversion on the monitoring data, which may have different data formats, sent by each infrastructure device, into a data format readable by the cloud server, so that the monitoring data is unified in terms of both transmission protocol and data format before being sent to the cloud server.

In some embodiments, the wireless capture device 131 parses and sends the monitoring data to the cloud server 120 in real-time. In addition, in the case of a failure of the mobile communication network, the wireless acquisition device 131 may delay sending the analyzed monitoring data, for example, the memory of the wireless acquisition device 131 may also locally store the analyzed monitoring data, and send the analyzed monitoring data to the cloud server after the communication of the wireless communication network is resumed.

In other embodiments, the wireless collection device 131 may also send alarm information for the wireless collection device itself, for example, based on a wireless data transfer protocol such as the SNMP protocol described above, which may include, for example, a wireless signal failure alarm, a power failure alarm, etc.

According to the embodiment of the application, the performance consumption of monitoring data acquisition is distributed to each wireless acquisition device 131, and the pressure of the cloud server is reduced.

With further reference to fig. 1, as shown, the cloud server 120 is connected in wireless communication with the wireless collection devices 131 of the plurality of data centers 130, and the cloud server 120 receives the parsed monitoring data transmitted from each of the wireless collection devices 131 and stores and processes the parsed monitoring data.

The cloud server 120 is configured to store, process, analyze, and output various monitoring data transmitted by the field device acquisition components of each data center 130 on a cloud platform in real time, for example, process all alarm information, record an alarm event, and the like. Thus, the unification and standardization at the monitoring data processing server side are realized.

In some embodiments, since each type of monitoring data of the data centers of different sites is stored, processed, analyzed, and output in real time in the cloud server 120, the monitoring system reduces the investment in server hardware and simultaneously realizes uniform storage and processing of the monitoring data of the data centers of each site.

As an example, when the number of data center sites increases and the data amount increases, the cloud server 120 may meet the demand of the data amount increase through flexible capacity expansion. In addition, under the condition that the number of infrastructure devices of the data center of a certain site is large, which affects the data phase response time and the stable operation of the cloud server 120, the cloud server 120 may adopt a load balancing strategy to distribute the data of the data center with large data volume to the data center with small data volume, so as to realize the stable operation of the cloud server.

According to other embodiments of the present application, as shown in the figure, the monitoring system 100 may further include a unified monitoring platform 110, and the unified monitoring platform 110 obtains the processed monitoring data from the cloud server through a network. It is understood that in other embodiments not shown, the unified monitoring platform 110 may also be disposed on the cloud server 120.

The unified monitoring platform 110 is used to take charge of unified monitoring and management of each data center infrastructure device, so that it is not necessary to establish a separate infrastructure monitoring system in each local data center located at different sites. As an example, the unified monitoring platform 110 may classify the processed monitoring data according to each data center 130, respectively establish a monitoring sub-platform for each data center of the plurality of data centers, respectively obtain the monitoring data of the corresponding data center, and monitor each infrastructure device of the corresponding data center in real time in the monitoring sub-platform. By the method, the management platform is unified and standardized under the same monitoring system from each data center site to the unified management platform.

In the embodiment of the application, the monitoring system 100 employs a distributed modular structure for monitoring each data center 130, and the installation and debugging of all software are centralized in the cloud server 120, so that the system is easy to implement and maintain. In the monitoring system 100, all data processing is performed on the cloud management server, and when a new data center site is added, uploading and issuing of data can be completed only by accessing corresponding equipment to the cloud management server, so that the expansibility of the system is greatly enhanced.

In other embodiments, the same user may access the unified monitoring platform 110 by way of a mobile-side wechat applet or a PC client to browse various monitoring data and alarms.

Because each data center is usually deployed in different places, design houses in different places often adopt different design schemes, and data center monitoring systems of different sites may adopt different terminal acquisition devices (for example, terminal devices of some machine room monitoring systems can adopt a gateway mode, and some machine rooms can adopt a data management machine mode), so that differences between the equipment quality and the data acquisition time can be caused, and the unified operation, maintenance and management of the data center monitoring systems are influenced. Furthermore, due to different bidding modes, the machine rooms of all the sites can also adopt monitoring systems of different manufacturers, enterprises require integrated interfaces of different manufacturers to carry out development work respectively, and development workload is large and difficulty is high.

According to the implementation mode of the application, the scheme design of unified standards is adopted from the wireless acquisition equipment and the cloud server of the bottom layer to the monitoring platform. The quality and the performance of the acquisition equipment at the tail end can be ensured, and the condition that a unified monitoring platform needs to be developed for multiple times aiming at monitoring data centers of different sites in the traditional scheme can be avoided, so that the development workload is greatly reduced.

In the description provided herein, numerous specific details are set forth. It is understood, however, that embodiments of the invention may be practiced without these specific details. In some instances, well-known methods, structures and techniques have not been shown in detail in order not to obscure an understanding of this description.

Similarly, it should be appreciated that in the foregoing description of exemplary embodiments of the invention, various features of the invention are sometimes grouped together in a single embodiment, figure, or description thereof for the purpose of streamlining the invention and aiding in the understanding of one or more of the various inventive aspects. However, the disclosed method should not be interpreted as reflecting an intention that: that the invention as claimed requires more features than are expressly recited in each claim. Rather, as the following claims reflect, inventive aspects lie in less than all features of a single foregoing disclosed embodiment. Thus, the claims following the detailed description are hereby expressly incorporated into this detailed description, with each claim standing on its own as a separate embodiment of this invention.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the modules in the device in an embodiment may be adaptively changed and disposed in one or more devices different from the embodiment. The modules or units or components of the embodiments may be combined into one module or unit or component, and furthermore they may be divided into a plurality of sub-modules or sub-units or sub-components. All of the features disclosed in this specification (including any accompanying claims, abstract and drawings), and all of the processes or elements of any method or apparatus so disclosed, may be combined in any combination, except combinations where at least some of such features and/or processes or elements are mutually exclusive. Each feature disclosed in this specification (including any accompanying claims, abstract and drawings) may be replaced by alternative features serving the same, equivalent or similar purpose, unless expressly stated otherwise.

Furthermore, those skilled in the art will appreciate that while some embodiments described herein include some features included in other embodiments, rather than other features, combinations of features of different embodiments are meant to be within the scope of the invention and form different embodiments. For example, in the claims, any of the claimed embodiments may be used in any combination.

The word "comprising" does not exclude the presence of elements or steps not listed in a claim. The word "a" or "an" preceding an element does not exclude the presence of a plurality of such elements. The invention may be implemented by means of hardware comprising several distinct elements, and by means of a suitably programmed terminal device. In the unit claims enumerating several terminal devices, several of these terminal devices may be embodied by one and the same item of hardware. The usage of the words first, second and third, etcetera do not indicate any ordering. These words may be interpreted as names.

Claims

1. A monitoring system for infrastructure equipment of a data center, comprising:

2. the monitoring system according to claim 1, further comprising a unified monitoring platform, wherein the unified monitoring platform obtains the processed monitoring data from the cloud server, and establishes a monitoring sub-platform for each of the plurality of data centers based on the processed monitoring data, and monitors each infrastructure device of the corresponding data center in real time in the monitoring sub-platform.

3. The monitoring system of claim 2, wherein the unified monitoring platform is disposed on the cloud server.

4. The monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the wireless collection device performing the data transmission protocol parsing on the received monitoring data and transmitting the parsed monitoring data based on a wireless data transmission protocol of the wireless collection device further comprises the wireless collection device parsing the monitoring data transmitted using a Modbus RTU or a Modbus TCP protocol, transmitting the parsed monitoring data using an SNMP protocol.

5. the monitoring system of claim 1, wherein the wireless collection device further comprises a 4G network card and a memory, the wireless collection device is in wireless communication with the cloud server via the 4G network card through a 4G network, and the memory is configured to store the parsed monitoring data.

6. The monitoring system of claim 1, wherein the wireless collection device sends the wireless collection device alert information based on the wireless data transfer protocol.

7. The monitoring system of claim 1, wherein the cloud server performs corresponding flexible expansion based on an increase in the number of data centers.

8. The monitoring system of claim 1, wherein the cloud server is load balanced based on a number of the infrastructure devices of the data center.

9. A monitoring system according to any of claims 1-8, characterized in that the data center's individual infrastructure equipment includes, HVDC equipment, UPS, switch boards, column head cabinets and precision air conditioners.