CN111045681A - Equipment topology display method and device - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses a method and a device for displaying equipment topology, which comprises the following steps: acquiring identification marks of multiple device topologies and corresponding asset position information, and writing the identification marks and the asset position information into a BIOS (basic input output System); compiling a BIOS and refreshing the BIOS on a server, acquiring a current identification of the server, and determining current asset position information according to the current identification by using the BIOS; the current asset location information is transmitted by the server to a baseboard management controller of the server and displayed on the baseboard management controller. The invention can adaptively and correctly display the multi-device topology according to the actual situation, and improves the convenience and the universality of the BMC work.
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Technical Field
The present invention relates to the field of servers, and in particular, to a method and an apparatus for displaying device topology.
Background
The PCIE (high speed serial computer extended bus standard extension) asset information function is a function of collecting relevant information of the PCIE device through a BIOS (basic input output system), sending the relevant information to a BMC (baseboard management controller), and then displaying the relevant information to a web UI (user graphical interface). One important item of information in the function is the position information of the equipment, and a user can correspond the specific equipment to the silk screen on the machine through the position information so as to correspond to the specific position on the machine, thereby facilitating the machine maintenance, the fault part positioning, the accessory replacement and the like. In the server products used in the prior art, one project often includes a plurality of machine types, and one machine type has more than one topology, but a set of firmware codes only includes information related to one topology or machine type, that is, only the location information of the topology or machine type can be correctly displayed. Once the machine topology or the machine type is replaced, the related information changes, the display is inaccurate, and the correct display function of the position information of the machine which processes multiple topologies and multiple configurations cannot be met.
Aiming at the problem that the topology of multiple devices is difficult to display in the prior art, no effective solution is available at present.
Disclosure of Invention
In view of this, an object of the embodiments of the present invention is to provide a device topology display method and apparatus, which can adaptively and correctly display a multi-device topology according to an actual situation, and improve convenience and universality of BMC operation.
In view of the above, a first aspect of the embodiments of the present invention provides an apparatus topology display method, including the following steps:
acquiring identification marks of multiple device topologies and corresponding asset position information, and writing the identification marks and the asset position information into a BIOS (basic input output System);
compiling a BIOS and refreshing the BIOS on a server, acquiring a current identification of the server, and determining current asset position information according to the current identification by using the BIOS;
the current asset location information is transmitted by the server to a baseboard management controller of the server and displayed on the baseboard management controller.
In some embodiments, the devices include PCIE devices that are directly connected through PCIE slots or indirectly connected to the server motherboard through an intermediate device; the device topology includes the hardware configuration features and the connection means of the device.
In some embodiments, the server has multiple models; each model has only one topology; the identification of the topology of the device comprises an identification of the model of the device.
In some embodiments, the server has multiple models; each model has multiple topologies; the identification of the device topology comprises identification of the model of the device and identification of the topology of the device.
In some embodiments, the baseboard management controller has a web interface, and displaying the current asset location information on the baseboard management controller includes: and displaying the current asset position on a webpage end provided by the baseboard management controller.
A second aspect of an embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus topology display device, including:
a processor; and
a memory storing program code executable by the processor, the program code when executed performing the steps of:
acquiring identification marks of multiple device topologies and corresponding asset position information, and writing the identification marks and the asset position information into a BIOS (basic input output System);
compiling a BIOS and refreshing the BIOS on a server, acquiring a current identification of the server, and determining current asset position information according to the current identification by using the BIOS;
the current asset location information is transmitted by the server to a baseboard management controller of the server and displayed on the baseboard management controller.
In some embodiments, the devices include PCIE devices that are directly connected through PCIE slots or indirectly connected to the server motherboard through an intermediate device; the device topology includes the hardware configuration features and the connection means of the device.
In some embodiments, the server has multiple models; each model has only one topology; the identification of the topology of the device comprises an identification of the model of the device.
In some embodiments, the server has multiple models; each model has multiple topologies; the identification of the device topology comprises identification of the model of the device and identification of the topology of the device.
In some embodiments, the baseboard management controller has a web interface, and displaying the current asset location information on the baseboard management controller includes: and displaying the current asset position on a webpage end provided by the baseboard management controller.
The invention has the following beneficial technical effects: the method and the device for displaying the equipment topology, provided by the embodiment of the invention, are characterized in that identification marks of various equipment topologies and corresponding asset position information are obtained, and the identification marks and the asset position information are written into a BIOS; compiling a BIOS and refreshing the BIOS on a server, acquiring a current identification of the server, and determining current asset position information according to the current identification by using the BIOS; the technical scheme that the server transmits the current asset position information to the baseboard management controller of the server and displays the current asset position information on the baseboard management controller can display the multi-device topology correctly according to the actual situation in a self-adaptive mode, and the convenience and the universality of the BMC work are improved.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic flow chart of a device topology display method provided by the present invention.
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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.
It should be noted that all expressions using "first" and "second" in the embodiments of the present invention are used for distinguishing two entities with the same name but different names or different parameters, and it should be noted that "first" and "second" are merely for convenience of description and should not be construed as limitations of the embodiments of the present invention, and they are not described in any more detail in the following embodiments.
In view of the above, a first aspect of the embodiments of the present invention provides an embodiment of a device topology display method capable of adaptively and correctly displaying a multi-device topology according to actual situations. Fig. 1 is a schematic flow chart of a device topology display method provided by the present invention.
The device topology display method, as shown in fig. 1, includes the following steps:
step S101: acquiring identification marks of multiple device topologies and corresponding asset position information, and writing the identification marks and the asset position information into a BIOS (basic input output System);
step S103: compiling a BIOS and refreshing the BIOS on a server, acquiring a current identification of the server, and determining current asset position information according to the current identification by using the BIOS;
step S105: the current asset location information is transmitted by the server to a baseboard management controller of the server and displayed on the baseboard management controller.
It will be understood by those skilled in the art that all or part of the processes of the methods of the embodiments described above can be implemented by a computer program, which can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium, and when executed, can include the processes of the embodiments of the methods 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. Embodiments of the computer program may achieve the same or similar effects as any of the preceding method embodiments to which it corresponds.
In some embodiments, the devices include PCIE devices that are directly connected through PCIE slots or indirectly connected to the server motherboard through an intermediate device; the device topology includes the hardware configuration features and the connection means of the device.
In some embodiments, the server has multiple models; each model has only one topology; the identification of the topology of the device comprises an identification of the model of the device.
In some embodiments, the server has multiple models; each model has multiple topologies; the identification of the device topology comprises identification of the model of the device and identification of the topology of the device.
In some embodiments, the baseboard management controller has a web interface, and displaying the current asset location information on the baseboard management controller includes: and displaying the current asset position on a webpage end provided by the baseboard management controller.
The method disclosed according to an embodiment of the present invention may also be implemented as a computer program executed by a CPU, which 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. The above-described method steps and system elements 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.
The following further illustrates embodiments of the invention in terms of specific examples.
First, a method that can distinguish between topologies or models is identified. Specifically, a signal (i.e., an identifier) for distinguishing a topology or a model, which can be directly or indirectly acquired by the BIOS, is acquired, so that the BIOS can automatically detect and determine which topology or model the current machine is according to different states of the distinguishing signal. And for each topology or model, the BIOS collects a group of data related to the asset information position information and backfills the data into the BIOS, and each type or topology is processed to the group of data related to the topology or the model according to the definition or the processing of different topologies or models respectively.
Then compiling the BIOS and refreshing the BIOS on a server, wherein the BIOS can be executed to adaptively distinguish each topology or model, and data accurately used for the topology or model is transmitted to the BMC, so that the webpage end UI of the BMC can accurately display the device position information of each topology or model. The device position information can inform the slot where the PCIE device is located (namely, the position where the PCIE device is connected to the mainboard) and the silk screen on the mainboard, so that the PCIE device can be corresponded to the specific position on the server, and the manual operations of machine maintenance, fault part positioning, accessory replacement and the like are facilitated.
It can be seen from the foregoing embodiments that, in the device topology display method provided in the embodiments of the present invention, identification identifiers of multiple device topologies and corresponding asset location information are obtained, and the identification identifiers and the asset location information are written into the BIOS; compiling a BIOS and refreshing the BIOS on a server, acquiring a current identification of the server, and determining current asset position information according to the current identification by using the BIOS; the technical scheme that the server transmits the current asset position information to the baseboard management controller of the server and displays the current asset position information on the baseboard management controller can display the multi-device topology correctly according to the actual situation in a self-adaptive mode, and the convenience and the universality of the BMC work are improved.
It should be particularly noted that, the steps in the embodiments of the device topology displaying method described above can be mutually intersected, replaced, added, or deleted, and therefore, the device topology displaying method based on these reasonable permutation and combination transformations shall also belong to the scope of the present invention, and shall not limit the scope of the present invention to the described embodiments.
In view of the above object, a second aspect of the embodiments of the present invention provides an embodiment of a device topology display apparatus capable of adaptively and correctly displaying a multi-device topology according to actual situations.
The device topology display apparatus includes:
a processor; and
a memory storing program code executable by the processor, the program code when executed performing the steps of:
acquiring identification marks of multiple device topologies and corresponding asset position information, and writing the identification marks and the asset position information into a BIOS (basic input output System);
compiling a BIOS and refreshing the BIOS on a server, acquiring a current identification of the server, and determining current asset position information according to the current identification by using the BIOS;
the current asset location information is transmitted by the server to a baseboard management controller of the server and displayed on the baseboard management controller.
In some embodiments, the devices include PCIE devices that are directly connected through PCIE slots or indirectly connected to the server motherboard through an intermediate device; the device topology includes the hardware configuration features and the connection means of the device.
In some embodiments, the server has multiple models; each model has only one topology; the identification of the topology of the device comprises an identification of the model of the device.
In some embodiments, the server has multiple models; each model has multiple topologies; the identification of the device topology comprises identification of the model of the device and identification of the topology of the device.
In some embodiments, the baseboard management controller has a web interface, and displaying the current asset location information on the baseboard management controller includes: and displaying the current asset position on a webpage end provided by the baseboard management controller.
It can be seen from the foregoing embodiments that, in the device topology display apparatus provided in the embodiments of the present invention, the identification identifiers and the corresponding asset location information of multiple device topologies are obtained, and the identification identifiers and the asset location information are written into the BIOS; compiling a BIOS and refreshing the BIOS on a server, acquiring a current identification of the server, and determining current asset position information according to the current identification by using the BIOS; the technical scheme that the server transmits the current asset position information to the baseboard management controller of the server and displays the current asset position information on the baseboard management controller can display the multi-device topology correctly according to the actual situation in a self-adaptive mode, and the convenience and the universality of the BMC work are improved.
It should be particularly noted that, the above embodiment of the device topology display apparatus employs the embodiment of the device topology display method to specifically describe the working process of each module, and those skilled in the art can easily think that these modules are applied to other embodiments of the device topology display method. Of course, since the steps in the embodiment of the device topology display method can be mutually intersected, replaced, added, and deleted, these reasonable permutation and combination transformations of the device topology display apparatus should also belong to the scope of the present invention, and should not limit the scope of the present invention to the embodiment.
The foregoing is an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, but it should be noted that various changes and modifications could be made herein without departing from the scope of the present disclosure as defined by the appended claims. The functions, steps and/or actions of the method claims in accordance with the disclosed embodiments described herein need not be performed in any particular order. Furthermore, although elements of the disclosed embodiments of the invention may be described or claimed in the singular, the plural is contemplated unless limitation to the singular is explicitly stated.
It should be understood that, as used herein, the singular forms "a", "an" and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly supports the exception. It should also be understood that "and/or" as used herein is meant to include any and all possible combinations of one or more of the associated listed items. The numbers of the embodiments disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention are merely for description, and do not represent the merits of the embodiments.
It will be understood by those skilled in the art that all or part of the steps for implementing the above embodiments may be implemented by hardware, or may be implemented by a program instructing relevant hardware, where the program may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium, and the above-mentioned storage medium may be a read-only memory, a magnetic disk or an optical disk, etc.
Those of ordinary skill in the art will understand that: the discussion of any embodiment above is meant to be exemplary only, and is not intended to intimate that the scope of the disclosure, including the claims, of embodiments of the invention is limited to these examples; within the idea of an embodiment of the invention, also technical features in the above embodiment or in different embodiments may be combined and there are many other variations of the different aspects of an embodiment of the invention as described above, which are not provided in detail for the sake of brevity. Therefore, any omissions, modifications, substitutions, improvements, and the like that may be made without departing from the spirit and principles of the embodiments of the present invention are intended to be included within the scope of the embodiments of the present invention.
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1. A device topology display method is characterized by comprising the following steps:
acquiring identification marks of multiple device topologies and corresponding asset position information, and writing the identification marks and the asset position information into a BIOS (basic input output System);
compiling a BIOS and refreshing the BIOS on a server, acquiring a current identification of the server, and determining current asset position information according to the current identification by using the BIOS;
transmitting, by the server, the current asset location information to a baseboard management controller of the server and displaying the current asset location information on the baseboard management controller.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the device comprises a PCIE device directly connected to the server motherboard through a PCIE slot or indirectly connected to the server motherboard through an intermediate device; the device topology includes hardware configuration features and connection modes of the device.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the server has a plurality of models; each model has only one topology; the identification of the device topology comprises an identification of a model of the device.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the server has a plurality of models; each model has multiple topologies; the identification mark of the device topology comprises a mark of a model of the device and a mark of the topology of the device.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the baseboard management controller has a web-end interface, and wherein displaying the current asset location information on the baseboard management controller comprises: and displaying the current asset position on a webpage end provided by the baseboard management controller.
6. An apparatus topology display device, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory storing program code executable by the processor, the program code when executed performing the steps of:
acquiring identification marks of multiple device topologies and corresponding asset position information, and writing the identification marks and the asset position information into a BIOS (basic input output System);
compiling a BIOS and refreshing the BIOS on a server, acquiring a current identification of the server, and determining current asset position information according to the current identification by using the BIOS;
transmitting, by the server, the current asset location information to a baseboard management controller of the server and displaying the current asset location information on the baseboard management controller.
7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the device comprises a PCIE device directly connected to a server motherboard via a PCIE slot or indirectly connected to an intermediate device; the device topology includes hardware configuration features and connection modes of the device.
8. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the server has a plurality of models; each model has only one topology; the identification of the device topology comprises an identification of a model of the device.
9. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the server has a plurality of models; each model has multiple topologies; the identification mark of the device topology comprises a mark of a model of the device and a mark of the topology of the device.
10. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the baseboard management controller has a web interface, and wherein displaying the current asset location information on the baseboard management controller comprises: and displaying the current asset position on a webpage end provided by the baseboard management controller.
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