CN110659166A

CN110659166A - Method and equipment for testing BMC asset information function

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Publication number: CN110659166A
Application number: CN201910839662.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 伯绍文
Original assignee: Suzhou Wave Intelligent Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Suzhou Wave Intelligent Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-09-03
Filing date: 2019-09-03
Publication date: 2020-01-07
Anticipated expiration: 2039-09-03
Also published as: CN110659166B

Abstract

The invention provides a method and equipment for testing BMC asset information function, wherein the method comprises the following steps: generating a configuration table according to the combination of all the component information; converting each configuration in the configuration table into a corresponding IPMI command combination; sending the IPMI command combination to the BMC; sequentially executing each IPMI command combination through the BMC, and writing an execution result into the BMC; the BMC asset information function is verified based on a comparison of the results with standard asset information. By using the method provided by the invention, the maximum test coverage of different shipment configurations can be ensured without actually matching different board cards or components, the accuracy and integrity of the BMC asset information function are ensured, and the test efficiency is improved.

Description

Method and equipment for testing BMC asset information function

Technical Field

The field relates to the field of computers, and more particularly to a method and a device for testing BMC asset information functions.

Background

With the development of the internet and big data, the number of client purchasing servers is increasing day by day. The BMC (baseboard management controller) is used as a monitoring management center of a server, and an important function is to show "asset information" of the server to a client, that is, how many CPUs, how many memories, how many network cards, what model and what specification each CPU is configured with, what model and what capacity each memory is configured with, and the like.

However, when the function of the BMC is used for processing complex configuration, problems easily occur, for example, after more than 5 network cards are matched, only information of 3 cards can be displayed at most; and like PCIE SSD cards with different models of the same manufacturer, the PCIE SSD cards with the same model are displayed in the asset information, and the problems greatly influence the production or customers. In order to ensure the accuracy of the asset information in the BMC, the conventional testing method is to match with actual physical devices and check whether the information is correct or not after the BMC is started. This method, although most practical, is very inefficient. For a model with 10 CPU, 10 memory, 10 network card and 10 Raid card, different permutation and combination can reach dozens, the traditional method can not cover 100 percent, and the time is basically consumed in the processes of borrowing objects, building a prototype, starting up, disassembling the prototype and changing the objects.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of this, an object of the embodiments of the present invention is to provide a method for testing a BMC asset information function, which can ensure maximum test coverage of different shipment configurations without actually collocating different boards or components, ensure accuracy and integrity of the BMC asset information function, and improve test efficiency.

Based on the above object, an aspect of the embodiments of the present invention provides a method for testing BMC asset information function, including the following steps:

generating a configuration table according to the combination of all the component information;

converting each configuration in the configuration table into a corresponding combination of IPMI (Intelligent platform management interface) commands;

sending the IPMI command combination to the BMC;

sequentially executing each IPMI command combination through the BMC, and writing an execution result into the BMC;

the BMC asset information function is verified based on a comparison of the results with standard asset information.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the IPMI command combination is generated based on the interaction specification of BMC and IPMI command.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, further comprising: check if the result was successfully written to BMC.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, further comprising: results are queried using the Restful command.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, further comprising: the results are displayed in a web interface.

In another aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, there is also provided a BMC asset information function test apparatus, including:

at least one processor; and

a memory storing program code executable by the processor, the program code when executed by the processor performing the steps of:

converting each configuration in the configuration table into a corresponding IPMI command combination;

sending the IPMI command combination to the BMC;

According to one embodiment of the invention, the steps further comprise: check if the result was successfully written to BMC.

According to one embodiment of the invention, results are queried using the Restful command.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the results are displayed in a web interface.

The invention has the following beneficial technical effects: according to the method for testing the BMC asset information function, a configuration table is generated according to the combination of all component information; converting each configuration in the configuration table into a corresponding IPMI command combination; sending the IPMI command combination to the BMC; sequentially executing each IPMI command combination through the BMC, and writing an execution result into the BMC; according to the technical scheme for checking the BMC asset information function based on the comparison of the result and the standard asset information, the maximum test coverage of different shipment configurations can be guaranteed without actually matching different board cards or components, the accuracy and the integrity of the BMC asset information function are guaranteed, and the test efficiency is improved.

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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art that other embodiments can be obtained by using the drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic flow diagram of a method for testing BMC asset information functionality according to one embodiment of the invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the following embodiments of the present invention are described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In view of the above-mentioned objects, a first aspect of the embodiments of the present invention provides an embodiment of a method for testing BMC asset information function. Fig. 1 shows a schematic flow diagram of the method.

As shown in fig. 1, the method may include the steps of:

s1, generating a configuration table according to the combination of all the component information;

s2 converting each configuration in the configuration table into a corresponding IPMI command combination;

s3 sending the IPMI command combination to the BMC;

s4 sequentially executing each IPMI command combination through the BMC, and writing an execution result into the BMC;

s5 verifies BMC asset information functionality based on comparison of the results with standard asset information.

Through the technical scheme, the maximum test coverage of different shipment configurations can be guaranteed without actually matching different board cards or components, the accuracy and the integrity of the BMC asset information function are guaranteed, and the test efficiency is improved.

The component information as shown in table 1 below:

component part	Model number	Number of
			CPU	A/B/C/D	1/2
MEM	E/F/G	2/4/6/8/10/12/14/16
			PCIE	H/I/J/K	0/1/2/3

The configuration table generated from the component information of table 1 is as follows:

CFG1：CPU,A,1；MEM,E,2；PCIE1,H,1；PCIE2,J,1

CFG2：CPU,B,2；MEM,F,16；PCIE1,I,1；PCIE2,J,1；PCIE3,K,1

…

CFG(M)：CPU,D,2；MEM,F,10；PCIE1,I,1

a configuration table is generated according to the possibilities of all combinations of the component information of table 1, for example, configuration 1CFG1 in the above configuration table represents 1 a model CPU, 2E model MEM, 1H model card inserted in PCIE1, and 1J model card inserted in PCIE 2.

Configuration 2GFG2 shows 2B model CPUs, 16F model MEM, 1I model card inserted in PCIE1, 1J model card inserted in PCIE2, and 1K model card inserted in PCIE 3.

Configuration (M) indicates 2D model CPUs, 10F model MEM, and 1I model card plugged in PCIE 1. Table 1 and the configuration table are only examples, and the specific component information needs to be determined according to the currently tested BMC.

The standard output for each configuration is also specified after the configuration table is determined, and is used to compare with the asset information displayed in the BMC. For example, display configuration 1 is that the BMC can correctly display 1 CPU of a model, 2 memories of E model, 1 card of H model inserted in the position of PCIE1, and 1 card of J model inserted in the position of PCIE 2. And the information of a certain device is not displayed more or less, and the model of each device is the correct specification name, rather than any starting name, and the standards are all obtained by manually inquiring the specification number to ensure the correctness of the passing standards.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the IPMI command combination is generated based on the interaction specification of BMC and IPMI command.

The BIOS sends related bottom layer information of CPU, MEM, PCIE, HDD, MAC, BIOS/ME FW and the like of the system in the POST (Power On Self test) process, such as type ID, position ID and device ID to BMC through IPMI OEM command, the BMC stores the related information in the EEPROM, corresponding character strings are found from a database stored in the BMC through analyzing the type ID, the position ID and the device ID sent by the BIOS and displayed in asset information of a WEB interface, and the data structure of the interactive command is shown in the following table 2:

converting the configuration information table described above into command combinations according to table 2, taking the CPU and memory information in CFG1 as an example, the flow is:

1) sending information of 1 CPU;

2) sending information of 2 memories;

the command combination is:

#CPU

echo"set cpu info！number＝"$i

ipmitool-H$IP-Uroot-Proot-Ilanplus raw 0x3c 0x01 0x01 0x01 0x00 0x01 0x0F 0x0F 0x0F 0x01 0x55 0x00 0x06 0x49 0x6E 0x74 0x65 0x6C 0x28 0x52 0x290x20 0x58 0x65 0x6F 0x6E 0x28 0x52 0x29 0x20 0x47 0x6F 0x6C 0x64 0x20 0x360x31 0x33 0x30 0x20 0x43 0x50 0x55 0x20 0x40 0x20 0x32 0x2E 0x31 0x30 0x470x48 0x7A 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x54 0x06 0x05 0x00 0x490x00 0x00 0x02 0xA0 0x0F 0x10 0x00 0x20 0x00 0x10 0x00 0x00 0x04 0x00 0x400x00 0x58 0x7D 0x00 0xFC 0x00 0x88 0x79 0x6f 0x5e 0x4d 0x3c 0x2b 0x1a

#MEM

echo"set mem info！number＝"$i

ipmitool-H$IP-Uroot-Proot-Ilanplus raw 0x3c 0x01 0x01 0x02 0x00 0x06 0x01 0x10 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x01 0x10 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0x00 0x31 0x00 0x53 0x61 0x6D 0x73 0x75 0x6E 0x67 0x00 0x000x00 0x55 0x08 0x55 0x08 0x1A 0x80 0x00 0x02 0x40 0x00 0xB0 0x04 0x10 0x00

ipmitool-H$IP-Uroot-Proot-Ilanplus raw 0x3c 0x01 0x01 0x02 0x01 0x06 0x01 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x01 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0x00 0x37 0x00 0x34 0x31 0x35 0x30 0x31 0x35 0x33 0x45 0x000x00 0x4D 0x33 0x39 0x33 0x41 0x32 0x47 0x34 0x30 0x44 0x42 0x30 0x2D 0x430x50 0x42 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x00

and in the BMC which sends the command combination generated above, the BMC generates component information according to the interaction specification of the BMC and the IPMI command. For example, if the BMC asset information function is correct, executing the command may indicate that the BMC can correctly display 1 CPU of a model a, 2 memories of a model E, 1 card of an H model inserted in the PCIE1, and 1 card of a J model inserted in the PCIE 2. And then, comparing according to the standard asset information in the BMC, and detecting whether the displayed information after the BMC executes the command is correct so as to detect whether the BMC asset information function is correct. If the display result is not consistent with the standard asset information, the BMC needs to be maintained.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, after sending the IPMI command combination to the BMC, the method further includes: and checking whether the result is successfully written into the BMC to ensure that the BMC can receive the IPMI command.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, results are queried using the Restful command. The BMC is logged in through a Restful interface, then asset information is collected, and finally the BMC is logged out.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the results are displayed in a web interface.

The method provides a method for testing the BMC asset information function. The invention extracts the BIOS and BMC interactive command, simulates the BIOS to send different asset information contents to the BMC, and covers all possible shipment configurations of the machine types. By the method, the maximum test coverage of different shipment configurations can be guaranteed without actually matching different board cards or components, the accuracy and the integrity of the BMC asset information function are guaranteed, and the test efficiency is improved.

The above embodiments are only specific cases of the present invention, and the scope of the present invention includes but is not limited to the above embodiments, and any method for implementing an automated testing of a BMC asset information function based on IPMI interactive commands according to the present invention and any suitable changes or substitutions thereof by those skilled in the art should fall within the scope of the present invention.

It should be noted that, as will be understood by those skilled in the art, all or part of the processes in the methods of the above embodiments may be implemented by instructing relevant hardware through a computer program, and the above programs may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium, and when executed, the programs may include the processes of the embodiments of the methods as described above. The storage medium may be a magnetic disk, an optical disk, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), or the like. The embodiments of the computer program may achieve the same or similar effects as any of the above-described method embodiments.

Furthermore, the method disclosed according to an embodiment of the present invention may also be implemented as a computer program executed by a CPU, and the computer program may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. The computer program, when executed by the CPU, performs the above-described functions defined in the method disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention.

In view of the above object, a second aspect of the embodiments of the present invention provides a test device for implementing a BMC asset information function, including:

at least one processor; and

sending the IPMI command combination to the BMC;

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the steps further comprise: check if the result was successfully written to BMC.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, results are queried using the Restful command.

It should be particularly noted that the embodiment of the system described above employs the embodiment of the method described above to specifically describe the working process of each module, and those skilled in the art can easily think that the modules are applied to other embodiments of the method described above.

Further, the above-described method steps and system elements or modules may also be implemented using a controller and a computer-readable storage medium for storing a computer program for causing the controller to implement the functions of the above-described steps or elements or modules.

Those of skill would further appreciate that the various illustrative logical blocks, modules, circuits, and algorithm steps described in connection with the disclosure herein may be implemented as electronic hardware, computer software, or combinations of both. To clearly illustrate this interchangeability of hardware and software, various illustrative components, blocks, modules, circuits, and steps have been described above generally in terms of their functionality. Whether such functionality is implemented as software or hardware depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the overall system. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the disclosed embodiments of the present invention.

The embodiments described above, particularly any "preferred" embodiments, are possible examples of implementations and are presented merely to clearly understand the principles of the invention. Many variations and modifications may be made to the above-described embodiments without departing from the spirit and principles of the technology described herein. All such modifications are intended to be included within the scope of this disclosure and protected by the following claims.

Claims

1. A method for testing BMC asset information function is characterized by comprising the following steps:

sending the IPMI command combination to a BMC;

verifying the BMC asset information function based on a comparison of the execution result with standard asset information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the IPMI command combination is generated based on interaction specification of BMC and IPMI command.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising: and checking whether the execution result is successfully written into the BMC.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising: the results of the execution are queried using the Restful command.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising: and displaying the execution result in a web interface.

6. A BMC asset information function testing device, the device comprising:

at least one processor; and

a memory storing program code executable by the processor, the program code, when executed by the processor, performing the steps of:

sending the IPMI command combination to a BMC;

and checking the BMC asset information function based on the comparison of the execution result and the standard asset information.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the steps further comprise: and checking whether the result is successfully written into the BMC.

8. The device of claim 6, wherein the IPMI command combination is generated based on interaction specification of BMC and IPMI command.

9. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the results are queried using a Restful command.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the results are displayed in a web interface.