CN113900718A

CN113900718A - Method, system and device for decoupling asset information of BMC (baseboard management controller) and BIOS (basic input/output system)

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Publication number: CN113900718A
Application number: CN202111158362.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 刘永敬
Original assignee: Suzhou Inspur Intelligent Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Suzhou Inspur Intelligent Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-09-30
Filing date: 2021-09-30
Publication date: 2022-01-07
Anticipated expiration: 2041-09-30
Also published as: CN113900718B

Abstract

The invention provides a method, a system and a device for decoupling asset information of BMC and BIOS, wherein the method comprises the following steps: determining the configuration mode of the external equipment of the server, and acquiring the configuration information of the external equipment of the server; writing a burning tool according to configuration information of external equipment of the server; writing configuration information of external equipment of the server into a nonvolatile storage space of a server mainboard through a burning tool; acquiring configuration information of external equipment of the server from the nonvolatile storage space, and writing the configuration information into the shared memory; the BMC acquires PCIE equipment information according to configuration of the external equipment and dynamically loads a physical position information table; thread monitoring and information acquisition are carried out on the PCIE equipment; and regulating and controlling the PCIE equipment according to the acquired PCIE equipment information. According to the invention, the BMC does not rely on the BIOS to push the asset information, but classifies the configuration mode of the external equipment of the server, writes the information into the storage space which is not easy to lose, and directly obtains the information by the BMC, so that the obtaining speed is improved, and the error rate is reduced.

Description

Method, system and device for decoupling asset information of BMC (baseboard management controller) and BIOS (basic input/output system)

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of computers, in particular to a method, a system and a device for decoupling asset information of BMC and BIOS.

Background

The BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) is used as a Management Controller of the server, and can manage and control the server, including monitoring a temperature point in a server motherboard, monitoring peripheral devices, and controlling heat dissipation. Among the peripheral devices, PCIE devices occupy a large portion, and the main PCIE devices include a network card, a GPU card, a RAID card, an accelerator card, an MOC card, and the like. The BMC needs to monitor the information of these devices, including bandwidth, operating rate, temperature, etc. The BMC can set the rotating speed of the fan according to different temperatures, so that the external card can work at a proper temperature, and if the external card does not work at the proper temperature, the peripheral equipment is damaged, and the server can not run normally seriously.

Therefore, a stable and convenient monitoring mode is needed to monitor the external PCIE devices. Since the PCIE links in the motherboard hardware are all connected to the CPU, and the BMC cannot acquire detailed information of the current PCIE device (including physical characteristics such as manufacturers and types of external devices), the current implementation manner is that after the System is powered on, the System interface sends the information to the BMC after the information of the external device is acquired by a BIOS (Basic Input Output System), and after the BMC receives the information, the BMC establishes monitoring of different PCIE devices by different threads after dynamically loading hardware connection information of the device.

The coupling between the BMC and the BIOS is very strong, when the system cannot be powered on or the asset information sent by the BIOS is wrong (for example, a card or a bandwidth is dropped), the BMC cannot acquire normal asset information, the monitoring of the PCIE device cannot be performed normally, so that the static information and the dynamic information of the PCIE cannot be acquired, and the PCIE device cannot work normally after the temperature is out of control. There is therefore a need for a stable way to decouple asset information for BMC and BIOS.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a method, a system, and a device for decoupling asset information of a BMC and a BIOS, so that the BMC does not rely on the BIOS to push asset information, but classifies a configuration mode of an external device of a server, writes the information into a storage space that is not easily lost, and directly obtains the information by the BMC, thereby improving an obtaining speed and reducing an error rate.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention is realized by the following technical scheme: a method for coupling asset information of a BMC and a BIOS comprises the following steps:

determining the configuration mode of the external equipment of the server, and acquiring the configuration information of the external equipment of the server;

writing a burning tool according to configuration information of external equipment of the server;

writing configuration information of external equipment of the server into a nonvolatile storage space of a server mainboard through a burning tool;

starting the BMC, acquiring configuration information of external equipment of the server from the nonvolatile storage space, and writing the configuration information into the shared memory;

the BMC acquires PCIE equipment information according to configuration of the external equipment and dynamically loads a physical position information table;

thread monitoring and information acquisition are carried out on the PCIE equipment;

and regulating and controlling the PCIE equipment according to the acquired PCIE equipment information.

Further, the configuration mode of the external device of the server comprises: the configuration mode of the external equipment of the first server and the configuration mode of the external equipment of the second server;

the configuration mode of the external equipment of the first server is specifically that the server is configured with 8 GPUs, 2 network cards and 1 Raid card;

and the configuration mode of the external equipment of the second server is specifically that the server is configured with 4 GPUs and 2 Raid cards.

Further, the external device configuration information of the server written in the shared memory is used for communication of different threads.

Further, the PCIE device information includes:

the information of the PCIE device comprises position information of the PCIE device, manufacturer information of the PCIE device and type information of the PCIE device.

Further, the physical location information table stores information of I2C links corresponding to different physical locations.

Further, the thread monitoring and information acquisition for the PCIE device includes:

and acquiring and monitoring the static information and the dynamic information of the PCIE equipment.

Further, the static information of the PCIE device includes: the PN code, SN code, manufacturer name, bandwidth, PCIE link information and firmware version number of the PCIE device;

the dynamic information of the PCIE device includes: temperature, power consumption, and frequency of use of PCIE devices.

Further, the adjusting and controlling the PCIE device according to the acquired PCIE device information includes:

and displaying the acquired static information of the PCIE equipment, and performing alarm and fan control according to the acquired dynamic information of the PCIE equipment.

Correspondingly, the invention also discloses an asset information coupling system of BMC and BIOS, comprising: the configuration information acquisition unit is used for determining the configuration mode of the external equipment of the server and acquiring the configuration information of the external equipment of the server;

the writing unit is used for writing a burning tool according to the configuration information of the external equipment of the server;

the storage unit is used for writing the configuration information of the external equipment of the server into the nonvolatile storage space of the server mainboard through the burning tool;

the sharing unit is used for starting the BMC, acquiring configuration information of the external equipment of the server from the nonvolatile storage space and writing the configuration information into the shared memory;

the loading unit is used for controlling the BMC to acquire PCIE equipment information according to the configuration of the external equipment and dynamically loading the physical position information table;

the monitoring unit is used for performing thread monitoring and information acquisition on the PCIE equipment;

and the regulation and control unit is used for regulating and controlling the PCIE equipment according to the acquired PCIE equipment information.

Correspondingly, the invention discloses an asset information coupling device of BMC and BIOS, comprising:

the memory is used for storing the asset information coupling program of the BMC and the BIOS;

and the processor is used for realizing the steps of the asset information coupling method of the BMC and the BIOS when executing the asset information coupling program of the BMC and the BIOS.

Correspondingly, the invention discloses a readable storage medium, wherein the readable storage medium is stored with an asset information coupling program of the BMC and the BIOS, and the asset information coupling program of the BMC and the BIOS realizes the steps of the asset information coupling method of the BMC and the BIOS when being executed by a processor.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that: the invention provides a method, a system and a device for decoupling asset information of BMC (baseboard management controller) and BIOS (basic input/output system), which are used for pushing the asset information by the BMC without depending on BISO (building information infrastructure), directly writing the asset information into a storage space which is not easy to lose, acquiring the asset information by the BMC, and dynamically loading a physical connection table according to the asset information to acquire the physical connection information. And finally, communication is carried out according to a relevant physical protocol, and static and dynamic information of the PCIE equipment is monitored. Therefore, a PCIE equipment monitoring model can be established quickly and accurately, and stable operation of the server is maintained.

The method and the system can classify the configuration modes of the external equipment of the server, write the information into the storage space which is not easy to lose, and directly acquire the information by the BMC, thereby improving the acquisition speed and reducing the error rate. During factory production, configuration modes can be formulated according to different external equipment combinations, the nonvolatile storage space on the server mainboard is written in one key through the writing tool, and the operation is convenient and fast.

The method is not only suitable for decoupling asset information between the BMC and the BIOS, but also suitable for decoupling with other information, and is wide in application.

Therefore, compared with the prior art, the invention has prominent substantive features and remarkable progress, and the beneficial effects of the implementation are also obvious.

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 embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the provided drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a flow chart of the method of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a system block diagram of the present invention.

In the figure, 1 is a configuration information acquisition unit; 2 is a writing unit; 3 is a storage unit; 4 is a sharing unit; 5 is a loading unit; 6 is a monitoring unit; and 7 is a regulation and control unit.

Detailed Description

The core of the invention is to provide an asset information coupling method of BMC and BIOS, in the prior art, the PCIE equipment is monitored through the BMC and the BIOS, the defect of strong coupling of the BMC and the BIOS exists, when a system cannot be started or asset information sent by the BIOS is wrong, the BMC cannot acquire normal asset information, the monitoring of the PCIE equipment cannot be normally carried out, so that static information and dynamic information of the PCIE cannot be acquired, and the PCIE equipment cannot normally work after the temperature is out of control.

The method for decoupling the asset information of the BMC and the BIOS directly writes the asset information into a storage space which is not easy to lose, obtains the asset information by the BMC, and then dynamically loads a physical connection table according to the asset information to obtain the physical connection information. And finally, communication is carried out according to a relevant physical protocol, and static and dynamic information of the PCIE equipment is monitored. Therefore, the method and the system have the advantages that the BMC does not rely on the BIOS to push the asset information, classifies the configuration mode of the external equipment of the server, writes the information into the storage space which is not easy to lose, and directly obtains the information by the BMC, so that the obtaining speed is improved, and the error rate is reduced.

In order that those skilled in the art will better understand the disclosure, the invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments. It is to be understood that the described embodiments are merely exemplary of the invention, and not restrictive of the full scope of the invention. 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.

The first embodiment is as follows:

as shown in fig. 1, the present embodiment provides a method for decoupling BMC and BIOS asset information, including the following steps:

s1: determining the configuration mode of the external equipment of the server, and acquiring the configuration information of the external equipment of the server.

The configuration mode of the external equipment of the server comprises the following steps: the configuration mode of the external equipment of the first server and the configuration mode of the external equipment of the second server.

The configuration mode of the external equipment of the first server is specifically that the server is configured with 8 GPUs, 2 network cards and 1 Raid card; and the configuration mode of the external equipment of the second server is specifically that the server is configured with 4 GPUs and 2 Raid cards.

S2: and writing a burning tool according to the configuration information of the external equipment of the server.

The step provides a tool for writing the configuration information of the burning external equipment which can be used for a factory, and is beneficial to large-scale rapid production.

S3: and writing the configuration information of the external equipment of the server into the nonvolatile storage space of the mainboard of the server by using the burning tool.

The configuration information of the external equipment is quickly written into the nonvolatile storage space of the server through the burning tool, and the external equipment has the advantages of no loss in power failure and effective lifetime, and does not need to be written again.

S4: and starting the BMC, acquiring configuration information of the external equipment of the server from the nonvolatile storage space, and writing the configuration information into the shared memory.

And the external equipment configuration information of the server written in the shared memory is used for communication of different threads.

S5: and the BMC acquires PCIE equipment information according to the configuration of the external equipment and dynamically loads a physical position information table.

Wherein, the PCIE device information includes: the information of the PCIE device comprises position information of the PCIE device, manufacturer information of the PCIE device and type information of the PCIE device. The physical location information table stores information of I2C links corresponding to different physical locations.

S6: and performing thread monitoring and information acquisition on the PCIE equipment.

Specifically, static information and dynamic information of the PCIE device are acquired and monitored. The static information of the PCIE device includes: the PN code, SN code, vendor name, bandwidth, PCIE link information, and firmware version number of the PCIE device. The dynamic information of the PCIE device includes: temperature, power consumption, and frequency of use of PCIE devices.

S7: and regulating and controlling the PCIE equipment according to the acquired PCIE equipment information.

Specifically, the obtained static information of the PCIE device is displayed, and an alarm and fan control are performed according to the obtained dynamic information of the PCIE device. The BMC monitors static information and dynamic information of the PCIE, wherein the static information is used for displaying, and the dynamic information is used for clearly knowing the working state of the equipment.

The embodiment provides a method for decoupling asset information of a BMC and a BIOS, which is used for directly writing the asset information into a storage space which is not easy to lose and obtaining the asset information by the BMC, so that the BMC does not rely on the BISO to push the asset information any more. And then, dynamically loading a physical connection table according to the asset information to acquire physical connection information. And finally, communication is carried out according to a relevant physical protocol, and static and dynamic information of the PCIE equipment is monitored. Therefore, a PCIE equipment monitoring model can be established quickly and accurately, and stable operation of the server is maintained.

Example two:

based on the first embodiment, as shown in fig. 2, the present invention further discloses a system for decoupling asset information of BMC and BIOS, including: the device comprises a configuration information acquisition unit 1, a writing unit 2, a storage unit 3, a sharing unit 4, a loading unit 5, a monitoring unit 6 and a regulation and control unit 7.

The configuration information obtaining unit 1 is configured to determine a configuration mode of the external device of the server, and obtain configuration information of the external device of the server.

And the writing unit 2 is used for writing a burning tool according to the configuration information of the external equipment of the server.

And the storage unit 3 is used for writing the configuration information of the external equipment of the server into the nonvolatile storage space of the server mainboard through the burning tool.

And the sharing unit 4 is used for starting the BMC, acquiring configuration information of the external equipment of the server from the nonvolatile storage space, and writing the configuration information into the shared memory.

And the loading unit 5 is used for controlling the BMC to acquire PCIE equipment information according to the configuration of the external equipment and dynamically loading the physical position information table.

And the monitoring unit 6 is used for performing thread monitoring and information acquisition on the PCIE device.

And the regulation and control unit 7 is configured to perform regulation and control on the PCIE device according to the acquired PCIE device information.

The embodiment provides a decoupling system of BMC and BIOS asset information, which can classify the configuration modes of the external devices of the server, write the information into a storage space which is not easy to lose, and directly acquire the information by the BMC, so that the acquisition speed is improved, and the error rate is reduced. During factory production, configuration modes can be formulated according to different external equipment combinations, the nonvolatile storage space on the server mainboard is written in one key through the writing tool, and the operation is convenient and fast.

Example three:

the embodiment discloses a decoupling device of BMC and BIOS asset information, which comprises a processor and a memory; wherein, the processor implements the following steps when executing the decoupling program of the BMC and BIOS asset information stored in the memory:

1. determining the configuration mode of the external equipment of the server, and acquiring the configuration information of the external equipment of the server.

2. And writing a burning tool according to the configuration information of the external equipment of the server.

3. And writing the configuration information of the external equipment of the server into the nonvolatile storage space of the mainboard of the server by using the burning tool.

4. And starting the BMC, acquiring configuration information of the external equipment of the server from the nonvolatile storage space, and writing the configuration information into the shared memory.

5. And the BMC acquires PCIE equipment information according to the configuration of the external equipment and dynamically loads a physical position information table.

6. And performing thread monitoring and information acquisition on the PCIE equipment.

7. And regulating and controlling the PCIE equipment according to the acquired PCIE equipment information.

Further, the apparatus for decoupling BMC and BIOS asset information in this embodiment may further include:

the input interface is used for acquiring an externally-introduced decoupling program of the BMC and BIOS asset information, storing the acquired decoupling program of the BMC and BIOS asset information into the memory, and also used for acquiring various instructions and parameters transmitted by external terminal equipment and transmitting the instructions and parameters into the processor, so that the processor can perform corresponding processing by using the instructions and parameters. In this embodiment, the input interface may specifically include, but is not limited to, a USB interface, a serial interface, a voice input interface, a fingerprint input interface, a hard disk reading interface, and the like.

And the output interface is used for outputting various data generated by the processor to the terminal equipment connected with the output interface, so that other terminal equipment connected with the output interface can acquire various data generated by the processor. In this embodiment, the output interface may specifically include, but is not limited to, a USB interface, a serial interface, and the like.

And the communication unit is used for establishing remote communication connection between the decoupling device of the BMC and the BIOS asset information and the external server so that the decoupling device of the BMC and the BIOS asset information can mount the mirror image file into the external server. In this embodiment, the communication unit may specifically include, but is not limited to, a remote communication unit based on a wireless communication technology or a wired communication technology.

And the keyboard is used for acquiring various parameter data or instructions input by a user through real-time key cap knocking.

And the display is used for displaying relevant information in the short circuit positioning process of the power supply line of the running server in real time.

The mouse can be used for assisting a user in inputting data and simplifying the operation of the user.

Example four:

the present embodiments also disclose a readable storage medium, where the readable storage medium includes Random Access Memory (RAM), memory, Read Only Memory (ROM), electrically programmable ROM, electrically erasable programmable ROM, registers, a hard disk, a removable hard disk, a CD-ROM, or any other form of storage medium known in the art. The readable storage medium stores a decoupling program of the BMC and the BIOS asset information, and when the decoupling program of the BMC and the BIOS asset information is executed by the processor, the following steps are realized:

In summary, the BMC classifies the configuration mode of the external device of the server without relying on the BIOS to push the asset information, writes the information into the storage space which is not easy to lose, and directly obtains the information by the BMC, so that the obtaining speed is improved, and the error rate is reduced.

The embodiments are described in a progressive manner, each embodiment focuses on differences from other embodiments, and the same or similar parts among the embodiments are referred to each other. The method disclosed by the embodiment corresponds to the system disclosed by the embodiment, so that the description is simple, and the relevant points can be referred to the description of the method part.

Those of skill would further appreciate that the various illustrative elements and algorithm steps described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as electronic hardware, computer software, or combinations of both, and that the various illustrative components and steps have been described above generally in terms of their functionality in order to clearly illustrate this interchangeability of hardware and software. Whether such functionality is implemented as hardware or software depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the implementation. 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 present invention.

In the embodiments provided by the present invention, it should be understood that the disclosed system, system and method can be implemented in other ways. For example, the above-described system embodiments are merely illustrative, and for example, the division of the units is only one logical functional division, and other divisions may be realized in practice, for example, a plurality of units or components may be combined or 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, systems or units, and may be in an electrical, mechanical or other form.

The units described as separate parts may or may not be physically separate, and parts displayed as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in one place, or may be distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the units can be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the embodiment.

In addition, functional modules in the embodiments of the present invention may be integrated into one processing unit, or each module may exist alone physically, or two or more modules are integrated into one unit.

Similarly, each processing unit in the embodiments of the present invention may be integrated into one functional module, or each processing unit may exist physically, or two or more processing units are integrated into one functional module.

The steps of a method or algorithm described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be embodied directly in hardware, in a software module executed by a processor, or in a combination of the two. A software module may reside in Random Access Memory (RAM), memory, Read Only Memory (ROM), electrically programmable ROM, electrically erasable programmable ROM, registers, hard disk, a removable disk, a CD-ROM, or any other form of storage medium known in the art.

Finally, it should also be noted that, herein, relational terms such as first and second, and the like may be used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. Also, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other identical elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

The method, system, apparatus and readable storage medium for decoupling BMC and BIOS asset information provided by the present invention are described in detail above. The principles and embodiments of the present invention are explained herein using specific examples, which are presented only to assist in understanding the method and its core concepts. It should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, it is possible to make various improvements and modifications to the present invention without departing from the principle of the present invention, and those improvements and modifications also fall within the scope of the claims of the present invention.

Claims

1. A method for coupling asset information of a BMC and a BIOS comprises the following steps:

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the configuration of the external device of the server comprises: the configuration mode of the external equipment of the first server and the configuration mode of the external equipment of the second server;

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the external device configuration information of the server written in the shared memory is used for communication of different threads.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the PCIE device information comprises:

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the physical location information table stores information of I2C links corresponding to different physical locations.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the performing thread monitoring and information acquisition on the PCIE device comprises:

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the static information of the PCIE device comprises: the PN code, SN code, manufacturer name, bandwidth, PCIE link information and firmware version number of the PCIE device;

8. The asset information coupling method for the BMC and the BIOS of claim 7, wherein the performing the regulation and control of the PCIE device according to the obtained PCIE device information includes:

9. An asset information coupling system of BMC and BIOS, comprising:

the configuration information acquisition unit is used for determining the configuration mode of the external equipment of the server and acquiring the configuration information of the external equipment of the server;

10. An asset information coupling apparatus for BMC and BIOS, comprising:

a processor for implementing the steps of the asset information coupling method of BMC and BIOS as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 8 when executing the asset information coupling program of BMC and BIOS.