CN111669929A - Cabinet, cabinet group, monitoring method and monitoring equipment thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a cabinet, a cabinet group, a monitoring method thereof, and a monitoring device. According to the scheme provided by the embodiment of the invention, at least one path of distribution bus can be integrated on a single cabinet, so that the cabinet can be directly distributed through the integrated distribution bus on the cabinet. The rack group by when single rack concatenation was obtained, only need connect the connector on the adjacent rack box, can be in order to realize the same way distribution bus's on the different racks connection to can be connected through connector and power, realize the power supply to this way distribution bus, thereby realize the bus-bar distribution to each rack in the rack group. Compared with the existing cable power distribution or bus power distribution mode, the power distribution workload of the cabinet group can be effectively reduced, and the reliability of power distribution connection can be effectively improved. In addition, for the cabinet and the cabinet group with the monitoring system integrated on the cabinet, the embodiment of the invention further provides a corresponding monitoring method and monitoring equipment.

Description

Cabinet, cabinet group, monitoring method and monitoring equipment thereof

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a cabinet, a cabinet group, a monitoring method thereof, and a monitoring device.

Background

A rack group (e.g., a data center rack) is generally formed by splicing a plurality of racks, and the power distribution portion of the rack group is separated from each rack. When the cabinets are spliced, the cabinets need to be assembled, and power distribution is performed on the cabinets.

At present, the mainstream mode for distributing power for each cabinet in a cabinet group is cable power distribution. As shown in fig. 1, assuming that a cabinet group includes 20 cabinets (denoted by reference numbers 1, 2, and … … 20, respectively), the distribution cables need to be connected to the cabinets from the first cabinet, and if the number of cabinets in the cabinet group is large, the number of cables that need to be connected is large, and the difficulty in maintenance and inspection of the cabinet splicing field is large.

In addition, under the cable distribution mode, the rack concatenation scene needs the installation team of specialty to support, and is higher to installation team personnel skill requirement, and there are a large amount of installations and wiring work in the scene, and work load is big, and is with high costs, and a large amount of spare part materials need management and installation, still have the part to lose or damage probably, and artifical preparation cable connecting terminal still has the problem of connecting the lower reliability. In addition, the operation and maintenance stage is difficult to expand the capacity of the cabinet and the power distribution part.

At present, another way to distribute power for each cabinet in a cabinet group is bus distribution. As shown in fig. 2, assuming that one cabinet group includes 20 cabinets (respectively denoted by rack1, rack2, and … … rack 20), two buses (one bus may be denoted as a, and one bus may be denoted as B) are generally uniformly provided for the cabinet group.

Under the bus distribution mode, because need set up the generating line for rack group unification, consequently, need carry out rack overall arrangement and spatial structure site survey earlier stage, confirm each rack overall arrangement and turning size, carry out the customization design according to site survey data, customize according to the demand to parts such as initial end case, jack box, female arranging and adaptor, the customization cycle is longer, and the expense is higher. In addition, need the professional to accomplish the back at the part of customization, go on the installation of rack, generating line and distribution annex etc. to the scene, still can make the rack concatenation cost higher, and in case rack overall arrangement or spatial structure change, still need the scene to cut the generating line and adapt to, the concatenation degree of difficulty further increases. In addition, a large amount of parts and materials on site need to be managed and installed, and the complexity and cost of management and installation are high.

To sum up, two current rack group distribution modes all have the distribution work load big at least, and because constructor individual difference, the problem that distribution connection reliability is difficult to obtain the assurance.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention provides a cabinet, a cabinet group, a monitoring method and monitoring equipment thereof, which are used for solving the problems of large workload of power distribution and low reliability of power distribution connection of the cabinet group.

The invention provides a cabinet, which comprises at least one bus box 11 at the outer side, wherein each bus box 11 comprises a path of distribution bus, and each bus box 11 comprises two connectors, and the connectors are interfaces for connecting with a power supply or interfaces for connecting with connectors on bus boxes comprising the same path of distribution bus on other cabinets.

The invention also provides a cabinet set, which is formed by connecting at least two cabinets through the connector.

The invention also provides a monitoring method of the cabinet group, the cabinet group is formed by connecting at least two cabinets through the connector, and the cabinet also comprises a monitoring system for realizing cabinet monitoring, the method comprises the following steps:

determining whether a new monitoring system is accessed through communication;

when a new monitoring system is determined to be accessed, allocating an Internet Protocol (IP) address or a serial port communication address to the monitoring system, and updating an address list, wherein the address list stores the corresponding relation between the allocated IP address or the serial port communication address and the monitoring system;

and communicating with each monitoring system in the updated address list through the corresponding IP address or serial port communication address.

The invention also provides a monitoring method of the cabinet, wherein the cabinet is the above cabinet, and the cabinet also comprises a monitoring system for realizing cabinet monitoring, and the method comprises the following steps:

determining whether a monitoring system is accessed through communication;

when the monitoring system is determined to be accessed, an Internet Protocol (IP) address or a serial port communication address is distributed to the monitoring system;

and communicating with the monitoring system through the IP address or the serial port communication address.

The invention also provides a monitoring device of a cabinet set, the cabinet set is formed by connecting at least two cabinets through the connector, and the cabinet also comprises a monitoring system for realizing cabinet monitoring, the monitoring device comprises:

the communication module is used for determining whether a new monitoring system is accessed through communication;

the communication module is used for receiving a monitoring system access request sent by a monitoring system, and sending the monitoring system access request to the communication module;

and the communication module is also used for communicating with each monitoring system in the updated address list through a corresponding IP address or serial port communication address.

The present invention also provides a monitoring device for a cabinet, wherein the cabinet is the above-mentioned cabinet, and the inside of the cabinet further includes a monitoring system for realizing cabinet monitoring, and the monitoring device includes:

the communication module is used for determining whether a monitoring system is accessed through communication;

the distribution module is used for distributing an Internet Protocol (IP) address or a serial port communication address to the monitoring system when the communication module determines that the monitoring system is accessed;

the communication module is further configured to communicate with the monitoring system through the IP address or the serial communication address.

According to the scheme provided by the embodiment of the invention, at least one path of distribution bus can be integrated on a single cabinet, so that the cabinet can be directly distributed through the integrated distribution bus on the cabinet. The rack group by when single rack concatenation was obtained, only need connect the connector on the adjacent rack box, can be in order to realize the same way distribution bus's on the different racks connection to can be connected through connector and power, realize the power supply to this way distribution bus, thereby realize the bus-bar distribution to each rack in the rack group. Compared with the existing cable power distribution or bus power distribution mode, the power distribution workload of the cabinet group can be effectively reduced, and the reliability of power distribution connection can be effectively improved. In addition, for the cabinet and the cabinet group with the monitoring system integrated on the cabinet, the embodiment of the invention further provides a corresponding monitoring method and monitoring equipment.

Additional features and advantages of the invention will be set forth in the description which follows, and in part will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention. The objectives and other advantages of the invention will be realized and attained by the structure particularly pointed out in the written description and claims hereof as well as the appended drawings.

Drawings

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, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a power distribution of cables in a cabinet set provided by the prior art;

fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of bus distribution of a cabinet set provided in the prior art;

fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a cabinet according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of a cabinet including a rack for enclosing a passage according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic view of a signal terminal and a power distribution terminal included in the connector according to the first embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of a connector using a flexible connection according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of a connector using hard connection according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a cabinet set according to a second embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of a cabinet set according to a third embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 10 is a schematic diagram of the cascade connection of the cabinets in the cabinet group according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 11 is a schematic diagram of a communication topology according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 12 is a flowchart illustrating steps of a monitoring method according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 13 is a flowchart illustrating steps of a monitoring method according to a fifth embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 14 is a schematic structural diagram of a monitoring device according to a sixth embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 15 is a schematic structural diagram of a monitoring device according to a seventh embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to solve the problems of large power distribution workload and low power distribution connection reliability of the existing equipment cabinet group, the embodiment of the invention provides that at least one path of power distribution bus can be integrated on a single equipment cabinet in the equipment cabinet group, the single equipment cabinet does not need to be installed in a structural part, and a strong-current cable does not need to be deployed, namely, the equipment cabinet can be directly distributed through the power distribution bus integrated on the single equipment cabinet, so that the power distribution workload can be effectively reduced. In addition, the power distribution connection can be directly realized through the connector, and the reliability of the power distribution connection can be effectively ensured.

Further, an embodiment of the present invention further provides that each single cabinet may further include a Power Distribution Unit (PDU), so that power distribution in the single cabinet may be achieved without additionally installing PDUs and power distribution wires in the cabinets.

Further, the embodiment of the invention also provides that a monitoring system can be integrated in each single cabinet, so that the monitoring of the single cabinet is realized, and the monitoring requirement of the single cabinet is met.

In addition, for the condition that each single cabinet also comprises a monitoring system, the embodiment of the invention also provides a corresponding monitoring method for the cabinet group and the cabinet.

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention clearer, the present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, and it is apparent that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

It should be noted that, the "plurality" or "a plurality" mentioned herein means two or more. "and/or" describes the association relationship of the associated objects, meaning that there may be three relationships, e.g., a and/or B, which may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone. The character "/" generally indicates that the former and latter associated objects are in an "or" relationship.

The terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and in the claims, and in the drawings described above, are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the data so used is interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the invention described herein are capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein.

Furthermore, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

Example one

An embodiment of the present invention provides a cabinet, which may have a structure as shown in fig. 3, where the outside of the cabinet includes at least one bus box 11 (illustrated in fig. 3 by taking two bus boxes as an example), each bus box 11 includes one path of distribution bus (illustrated in fig. 3 by taking distribution bus included in two bus boxes as a path of bus and a path of bus B as an example), and each bus box 11 includes two connectors, where the connectors are interfaces for connecting with a power supply or interfaces for connecting with connectors on bus boxes including the same path of distribution bus on other cabinets.

The two connectors on the busbar box can be located anywhere on the busbar box. In fig. 3, it is illustrated that two connectors on one bus box are respectively located on the left side and the right side of the bus box, the left side connector is connected with a power supply to realize power supply input, and the right side connector is connected with connectors (not shown in fig. 3) on the bus box including the same distribution bus on other cabinets. Of course, the connectors on both sides of each bus bar box can also be used for connecting with the connectors on the bus bar boxes including the same distribution bus bar on different cabinets.

Further, a power distribution unit 12 for realizing power distribution in the cabinet can be further included in the cabinet. For illustration, the PDUs located within the cabinet are shown in FIG. 3 with dashed lines. The number of PDUs in an enclosure may be at least one, as shown in FIG. 3, and the number of PDUs in an enclosure may be, but is not limited to, two.

Further, a monitoring system 13 for implementing cabinet monitoring can be further included in the cabinet. For the sake of illustration, the monitoring system located within the cabinet is shown in dashed lines in fig. 3.

The monitoring system can monitor various cabinet environmental parameters. Wherein the cabinet environment parameters may include, but are not limited to, at least one of cabinet internal parameters (e.g., at least one of temperature, humidity, wind speed, differential pressure, etc.), PDU parameters (e.g., at least one of voltage, current, power, etc.), and switch parameters (e.g., at least one of whether a cabinet door is closed, whether a fire alarm is occurring, whether a person passes in front of the cabinet, etc.). In one possible implementation, it is understood that the monitoring system includes at least one sensor to monitor various cabinet environmental parameters. As shown in fig. 3, to enable monitoring of PDU parameters, a monitoring system may be interfaced with the PDU.

Further, the outside of the cabinet may further include a closed channel bracket 14 for forming a closed channel, a schematic view of the cabinet including the closed channel bracket may be as shown in fig. 4, the closed channel bracket is mainly illustrated in fig. 4, and other parts of the cabinet in fig. 4 may be, but are not limited to be, understood as the same as fig. 3.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment, the outside of a single cabinet may be but not limited to include two bus boxes, that is, it may be understood that two distribution buses may be integrated on a single cabinet, so that while the cabinet is distributed through any one distribution bus, standby may be implemented through another distribution bus, and reliability and stability of distribution are improved.

The outer side of a single cabinet can also but not limited to include at least three bus boxes, that is, at least three paths of distribution buses can be integrated on the single cabinet, so that the cabinet can be distributed through any path of distribution bus, and meanwhile, the standby can be realized through other paths of distribution buses, and the reliability and stability of distribution are further improved.

Of course, the outside of a single cabinet can also include but is not limited to a bus box, that is, it can be understood that a single distribution bus can be integrated on a single cabinet, thereby effectively reducing the cost of the single cabinet.

It should be further noted that, in this embodiment, in order to ensure the convenience of splicing the cabinets, it is preferable that the at least one bus box is located on a side of the outside of the cabinet opposite to the ground contact side. That is, as shown in fig. 3, the at least one bus bar box may be, but is not limited to being, located at a top side of an outside of the cabinet.

In this embodiment, the connectors on the busbar box can be understood as being used for realizing distribution connection, therefore, the connectors can include distribution terminals, and the number of the connector cores and the type of the connectors (the type of the connectors can be understood as the layout of the distribution terminals on the connectors) can be determined according to the distribution power.

Further, if the monitoring system is also included in the cabinet, the connector on the bus bar box can also be used for realizing the communication connection of the monitoring system, and the connector can also comprise a signal terminal besides a power distribution terminal. At this time, the number of cores of the connector and the type of the connector (the type of the connector can be understood as the layout of the power distribution terminals and the signal terminals on the connector) can be determined according to the power distribution power and the number of signals, and the schematic diagram of the connector including the signal terminals and the power distribution terminals can be, but is not limited to, as shown in fig. 5.

It should be noted that the connector on the busbar box may be hard-wired (e.g., a connector fixed by a busbar (e.g., a copper bar)), or may be soft-wired (e.g., a connector fixed by a soft wire). In this embodiment, among the two connectors included in one bus bar box, one connector may employ a hard connection and one connector may employ a soft connection, but not limited thereto. Thereby adopt the flexible coupling at a connector, position error between the rack when can effectively eliminating the rack concatenation to outside making the connector have better antidetonation shock-absorbing function, another connector can adopt the more easy hard connection that realizes to realize, makes the realization of this connector more convenient, and the cost is lower.

As shown in fig. 6, the two connectors on one bus box are respectively located on the left side and the right side of the bus box, and the left side connector adopts a flexible connection. As shown in fig. 7, two connectors are respectively located on the left side and the right side of the bus bar box on one bus bar box, and the left side connector adopts hard connection.

Preferably, in order to further ensure the reliability of the connector connection between the two cabinets, the connector between the two cabinets can be realized by a fool-proof plug-in terminal. Thus, preferably, two connectors on a bus box may be, but are not limited to, one connector being a receptacle and one connector being a plug.

It should be further noted that, in the present embodiment, the cabinet can be distributed through the distribution bus in the bus box. In a possible implementation, each bus box 11 may further include a connector thereon for connecting with a cabinet power distribution unit. After the connector is connected with the cabinet power distribution unit, the distribution bus in the bus box 11 can be distributed by the cabinet power distribution unit through the connector, so that the cabinet power distribution is realized.

In the present embodiment, the bus bar box 11 may be fixed to the cabinet by any means. In a possible implementation, the bus box 11 may be fixed to the cabinet by, but not limited to, screws or snaps.

In this embodiment, the bus box 11 may further include a support device, or a component for mounting the support device, on the bus box 11, the support device being used for supporting the bus box 11 with another cabinet when the bus box 11 is separated from the cabinet.

The support device included on the busbar box 11 may be in any form, for example, but not limited to, at least one pin penetrating through the busbar box 11, so that when the cabinet provided by this embodiment is used to form a cabinet set, if it is necessary to separate one cabinet from the busbar box in the cabinet set, after the busbar box separated from the cabinet loses the support of the cabinet, the busbar box can be erected on other adjacent cabinets of the cabinet set by the pin penetrating through the busbar box, and the other cabinets are used to form a support, so that the busbar box can be effectively supported by the support component without disconnecting the busbar box from the other busbar boxes or cutting off the power supply of the distribution busbar in the busbar box, and the normal operation of the other cabinets in the cabinet set is not affected.

The components for mounting the support device included in the busbar box 11 may be of any form, for example, when the support device is a pin penetrating through the busbar box, the components for mounting the support device may be, but are not limited to, holes in the busbar box (for example, holes located at the left and right sides of the busbar box), so that the pin may be mounted on the busbar box through the holes at the left and right sides of the busbar box, and when the busbar box is separated from the cabinet, the busbar box may be supported by other cabinets, so that the busbar box may be supported more effectively by the support component without disconnecting the busbar box from other busbar boxes or cutting off the power supply of the distribution busbar in the busbar box, and the normal operation of other cabinets in the cabinet group may not be affected.

According to the scheme provided by the first embodiment, the power distribution (and the PDU and/or in-cabinet monitoring) can be included in the smallest unit (single cabinet) of the cabinet group, and when the cabinet group is formed, the field installation of a large number of structural components can be reduced, the power distribution and weak current wiring work can be reduced, the field deployment time is shortened, and the installation and wiring reliability is improved to a greater extent. And the cabinets of the cabinet group can be connected with each other through connectors to establish power distribution and communication, and the advantages of simple and reliable connection are achieved. In addition, the rack that embodiment one provided not only when being applied to the rack group, can reduce the distribution work load of rack group, improve the reliability that the rack group is connected electrically, when independently using as the rack, for current rack, also can reduce the distribution work load of rack to improve the reliability that the rack distributes and connects.

On the basis of the cabinet provided by the first embodiment of the invention, the invention further provides a cabinet set, and the cabinet set can be understood as being formed by connecting at least two cabinets provided by the first embodiment of the invention through the connector.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment, when a certain cabinet in the cabinet group has a fault, the cabinet may be separated from the bus bar box integrated with the cabinet, and the cabinet may be maintained separately without cutting off the power supply of the distribution bus bar in the bus bar box, and without affecting the normal operation of other cabinets in the cabinet group.

If two connectors on each bus box of a single cabinet, at least one connector adopts flexible connection, certain moving space can be provided for the bus box separated from the cabinet through the flexible connection, and the safety of the bus box is guaranteed when the bus box is separated from the cabinet.

If the bus box comprises the supporting device or a component for installing the supporting device, the bus box can be effectively supported by the supporting component, so that the power supply of the distribution bus in the bus box is further ensured not to be cut off, and the normal work of other cabinets in the cabinet set is ensured.

When a single cabinet provided by the first embodiment is used for forming a cabinet group, the cabinet is used as the minimum unit to integrate the distribution bus, the workload of field structural member installation and distribution wiring is reduced to a great extent, the deployment time is short, and the reliability of field installation and distribution connection can be improved to a higher degree. In addition, the capacity expansion in the later period is convenient, and the capacity expansion can be realized only by connecting a new single cabinet to the original cabinet group through the connector. In addition, still have the convenient advantage of maintenance, when single rack is unusual, can carry out the outage to single rack and maintain, do not influence the power supply of whole way generating line.

The cabinet group provided by the invention can change the configuration according to the requirement, and can be quickly deployed to data centers of various scenes due to simple and quick cabinet splicing.

The cabinet group provided by the invention is explained by two specific examples.

Example two

The second embodiment of the present invention provides an equipment cabinet set, which may be but is not limited to be used as a data center equipment cabinet, and the structure of the equipment cabinet set may be as shown in fig. 8. In fig. 8, it is illustrated that the cabinet group includes 3 single cabinets (each single cabinet can be understood as shown in fig. 3 in the first embodiment), and each single cabinet includes two bus boxes (each of the two bus boxes includes a-way bus bar and a B-way bus bar). The power input device comprises a power input device, a power input device and a power input device, wherein the power input device comprises a cabinet, a power distribution bus and a power input device, the power input device comprises a connector, the connector is connected with a bus box of the same power distribution bus, the bus box is located at one end of the cabinet, the bus box comprises a bus, the connector is not connected with other bus boxes, the power input device comprises a power input device, the connector is not connected with other bus boxes, and the power input device is used for inputting power.

EXAMPLE III

For the case that the outside of the cabinet further includes a closed channel bracket, the third embodiment of the present invention provides a cabinet set, which may be but is not limited to be used as a data center cabinet, and the structure of the cabinet set may be as shown in fig. 9. In fig. 9, it can be understood that two cabinet groups are included, each cabinet group includes 6 individual cabinets (each individual cabinet can be understood as shown in fig. 4 in the first embodiment), and similar to the second embodiment, the cabinet connection of the cabinet groups is realized by connecting connectors on bus-bar boxes including the same distribution bus-bar on two cabinets. And can be connected with the power supply through the connector, realize the power input of each way distribution bus on the rack group.

Because the outer side of a single machine cabinet also comprises a closed channel bracket, glass can be erected on the closed channel bracket of each machine cabinet of the two machine cabinet groups, so that a closed channel is formed, and the data center machine cabinet with the closed channel is constructed. Preferably, the closed channel bracket can further comprise a lamp to realize illumination.

Based on the same inventive concept, the embodiment of the invention provides the following monitoring method for the cabinet group.

Example four

The fourth embodiment of the invention provides a monitoring method for the cabinet group provided by the invention. In this embodiment, it can be understood that each cabinet in the cabinet group includes a monitoring system for implementing local cabinet monitoring. And the monitoring system in each cabinet can establish network or serial connection with the upper monitoring equipment through the connector on the local cabinet bus box, namely, the connector comprises a power distribution terminal and a signal terminal at the moment, so that the integrated connection of power distribution and communication is realized.

Fig. 10 shows a schematic diagram of cascading cabinets of a cabinet group, where in fig. 10, three single cabinets are cascaded to form the cabinet group. And the cascaded cabinets are integrally connected through connectors to realize power distribution and communication. The topological diagram of the communication between the upper monitoring device and each cabinet monitoring system may be as shown in fig. 11, and the upper monitoring device and each cabinet monitoring system may communicate with each other through a network or a serial port. Specifically, the flow of steps of the monitoring method for the cabinet group may be as shown in fig. 12, and includes:

step 101, determining whether a new monitoring system is accessed.

In this step, it may be determined whether a new monitoring system is accessed through communication. If it is determined that a new monitoring system is accessed, execution may continue with step 102.

Step 102, an Internet Protocol (IP) address or a serial communication address is assigned.

In this step, when it is determined that a new monitoring system is accessed, address arbitration may be performed, an internet protocol IP address or a serial communication address may be allocated to the monitoring system, and an address list may be updated, where a correspondence between the allocated IP address or serial communication address and the monitoring system is stored in the address list.

And step 103, communication is carried out.

In this step, the monitoring system may communicate with each monitoring system in the updated address list through a corresponding IP address or serial communication address, thereby monitoring each cabinet in the cabinet group.

In a possible implementation manner, each cabinet is connected to a cabinet group, and the monitoring system in the cabinet can access the upper monitoring device. At this time, the new monitoring system in step 101 may be understood as the monitoring system in one cabinet corresponding to the latest connection to the cabinet group. In step 102, an IP address or a serial communication address is assigned to the monitoring system, which may be understood to be performed according to a connection sequence of the cabinets to the cabinet group.

It should be noted that, in step 101, if it is determined that no new monitoring system is accessed, communication may be performed with each monitoring system in the address list through a corresponding IP address or serial port communication address according to an existing address list.

According to the scheme provided by the embodiment, in the process of splicing the on-site cabinets, the newly added cabinets can be assigned with addresses and communication is established through an automatic discovery mechanism, the monitoring data of the newly added cabinets can be directly acquired, and the method can be used in a plug-and-play manner, so that physical splicing and communication deployment with a single cabinet as a unit are realized.

Based on the same inventive concept, the embodiment of the invention provides the following method for monitoring the cabinet.

EXAMPLE five

The fifth embodiment of the invention provides a cabinet monitoring method. In this embodiment, it can be understood that the cabinet includes a monitoring system for implementing local cabinet monitoring. And the monitoring system in the cabinet can establish network or serial connection with the upper monitoring equipment through the connector on the local cabinet bus box, namely, the connector can be understood to comprise a power distribution terminal and a signal terminal at the moment, and the power distribution communication integrated connection is realized.

Specifically, the step flow of the cabinet monitoring method may be as shown in fig. 13, and includes:

step 201, determining whether a monitoring system is accessed.

In this step, it may be determined whether a monitoring system is accessed through communication.

Step 202, allocating an IP address or a serial communication address.

In this step, when it is determined that the monitoring system is accessed in step 201, an internet protocol IP address or a serial communication address may be allocated to the monitoring system.

Step 203, communication is performed.

In this step, the monitoring system may communicate with the IP address or the serial communication address.

In this embodiment, when a single cabinet is used independently, an address may be assigned to the cabinet through an automatic discovery mechanism, communication may be established, the single cabinet may be monitored, and monitoring data of the cabinet may be directly obtained.

Based on the same inventive concept as the fourth embodiment, the embodiments of the present invention provide the following monitoring apparatus.

EXAMPLE six

The sixth embodiment of the present invention provides a monitoring device for an enclosure group, where the enclosure group is understood as an enclosure provided in the first embodiment, and is formed by connecting a bus box to a connector on a bus box including a same power distribution bus on another enclosure, and each enclosure further includes a monitoring system for monitoring the enclosure. The structure of the monitoring device can be as shown in fig. 14, including:

the communication module 21 is used for determining whether a new monitoring system is accessed through communication; the allocating module 22 is configured to allocate an internet protocol IP address or a serial communication address to the monitoring system and update an address list when the communication module determines that a new monitoring system is accessed, where a corresponding relationship between the allocated IP address or serial communication address and the monitoring system is stored in the address list; the communication module 21 is further configured to communicate with each monitoring system in the updated address list through a corresponding IP address or serial communication address.

The communication module 21 is further configured to communicate with each monitoring system in the original address list through a corresponding IP address or serial communication address when it is determined that no new monitoring system is accessed.

Based on the same inventive concept as the fifth embodiment, the fifth embodiment of the present invention provides the following monitoring device.

EXAMPLE seven

The seventh embodiment of the present invention provides a monitoring device for a cabinet, where the cabinet may be understood as including a monitoring system for implementing cabinet monitoring. The structure of the monitoring device may be as shown in fig. 15, including:

the communication module 31 is used for determining whether a monitoring system is accessed through communication; the allocating module 32 is configured to allocate an internet protocol IP address or a serial port communication address to the monitoring system when the communication module determines that the monitoring system is accessed; the communication module 31 is further configured to communicate with the monitoring system through the IP address or the serial communication address.

In the embodiments of the present invention, it should be understood that the disclosed apparatus and method may be implemented in other ways. For example, the above-described embodiments of the apparatus are merely illustrative, and for example, the described unit or division of units is only one division of logical functions, and there may be other divisions when actually implemented, for example, a plurality of units or components may be combined or may be integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted, or not executed. In addition, the shown or discussed mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection may be an indirect coupling or communication connection through some interfaces, devices or units, and may be in an electrical or other form.

The functional units in the embodiments of the present invention may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may be an independent physical module.

The integrated unit, if implemented in the form of a software functional unit and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may be stored in a computer readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, all or part of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium and includes instructions for causing a computer device, such as a personal computer, a server, or a network device, or a processor (processor) to execute all or part of the steps of the methods according to the embodiments of the present invention. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: various media that can store program codes, such as a universal serial bus flash drive (usb flash drive), a removable hard disk, a ROM, a RAM, a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.

As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, embodiments of the present invention may be provided as a method, system, or computer program product. Accordingly, the present invention may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, the present invention may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.

The present invention is described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the invention. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable apparatus to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

While preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described, additional variations and modifications in those embodiments may occur to those skilled in the art once they learn of the basic inventive concepts. Therefore, it is intended that the appended claims be interpreted as including preferred embodiments and all such alterations and modifications as fall within the scope of the invention.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made in the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Thus, if such modifications and variations of the present invention fall within the scope of the claims of the present invention and their equivalents, the present invention is also intended to include such modifications and variations.

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1. The utility model provides a cabinet, its characterized in that, the cabinet outside includes at least one bus box (11), includes distribution bus in every bus box (11) all the way, and includes two connectors on every bus box (11), the connector is for being used for the interface of being connected with the power, or is for being used for carrying out the interface of being connected with the connector on the bus box that includes distribution bus in the same way on other cabinets.

2. The cabinet of claim 1, further comprising a power distribution unit PDU (12) within the cabinet for enabling power distribution within the cabinet.

3. The cabinet of claim 1, further comprising a monitoring system (13) within the cabinet for enabling cabinet monitoring.

4. The cabinet of claim 1, further comprising a closed channel bracket (14) outside the cabinet for forming a closed channel.

5. The cabinet of claim 1, wherein the connectors include power distribution terminals, and the number of connector cores and connector type are determined based on the power distribution.

6. The cabinet of claim 5, wherein the connector further comprises signal terminals, and the number of connector cores and the type of connector are determined based on the distribution power and the number of signals.

7. The cabinet of any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein one of the two connectors is hard and one connector is soft.

8. The cabinet of any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein one of the two connectors is a receptacle and one of the two connectors is a plug.

9. The cabinet according to any of claims 1 to 4, wherein the at least one bus box (11) is located on the opposite side of the outside of the cabinet to the ground contact side.

10. The cabinet as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the bus box (11) is fixed on the cabinet by screws or snaps.

11. The cabinet according to any of claims 1 to 4, wherein each bus box (11) further comprises a connector for connecting with a cabinet power distribution unit.

12. The cabinet according to any of claims 1 to 4, wherein each bus box (11) further comprises a support device or a component for mounting a support device, the support device being used for supporting the bus box (11) with other cabinets when the bus box (11) is separated from the cabinet.

13. A cabinet set, characterized in that the cabinet set is formed by connecting at least two cabinets according to any one of claims 1 to 12 through the connector.

14. A method for monitoring a cabinet set, wherein the cabinet set is formed by connecting at least two cabinets according to any one of claims 1, 2, 4, 6 to 12 through the connector, and a monitoring system for monitoring the cabinets is further included in the cabinets, the method comprising:

determining whether a new monitoring system is accessed through communication;

when a new monitoring system is determined to be accessed, allocating an Internet Protocol (IP) address or a serial port communication address to the monitoring system, and updating an address list, wherein the address list stores the corresponding relation between the allocated IP address or the serial port communication address and the monitoring system;

and communicating with each monitoring system in the updated address list through the corresponding IP address or serial port communication address.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the method further comprises:

and when determining that no new monitoring system is accessed, communicating with each monitoring system in the original address list through the corresponding IP address or serial port communication address.

16. A method for monitoring a cabinet according to any one of claims 1, 2, 4, 6 to 12, wherein the cabinet further includes a monitoring system for monitoring the cabinet, the method comprising:

determining whether a monitoring system is accessed through communication;

when the monitoring system is determined to be accessed, an Internet Protocol (IP) address or a serial port communication address is distributed to the monitoring system;

and communicating with the monitoring system through the IP address or the serial port communication address.

17. A monitoring device for a cabinet set, the cabinet set is formed by connecting at least two cabinets according to any one of claims 1, 2, 4, 6 to 12 through the connector, and the cabinet further comprises a monitoring system for monitoring the cabinet, the monitoring device comprises:

the communication module is used for determining whether a new monitoring system is accessed through communication;

the communication module is used for receiving a monitoring system access request sent by a monitoring system, and sending the monitoring system access request to the communication module;

and the communication module is also used for communicating with each monitoring system in the updated address list through a corresponding IP address or serial port communication address.

18. The monitoring device of claim 17, wherein the communication module is further configured to communicate with each monitoring system in the original address list via a corresponding IP address or serial communication address when it is determined that no new monitoring system is accessed.

19. A monitoring device of a cabinet, wherein the cabinet is the cabinet as claimed in any one of claims 1, 2, 4, 6 to 12, and the cabinet further comprises a monitoring system for monitoring the cabinet, the monitoring device comprises:

the communication module is used for determining whether a monitoring system is accessed through communication;

the distribution module is used for distributing an Internet Protocol (IP) address or a serial port communication address to the monitoring system when the communication module determines that the monitoring system is accessed;

the communication module is further configured to communicate with the monitoring system through the IP address or the serial communication address.

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