CN113900718B

CN113900718B - Decoupling method, system and device for BMC and BIOS asset information

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Publication number: CN113900718B
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: 2023-08-15
Anticipated expiration: 2041-09-30
Also published as: CN113900718A

Abstract

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

Description

Decoupling method, system and device for BMC and BIOS asset information

Technical Field

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

Background

The BMC (Baseboard Management Controller ) is used as a management controller of the server, and can realize management and control of the server, including temperature point monitoring, peripheral equipment monitoring, heat dissipation regulation and control and the like in a main board of the server. The peripheral devices include PCIE devices, including network cards, GPU cards, RAID cards, accelerator cards, MOC cards, and the like. The BMC needs to monitor information about these devices including bandwidth, operating rate, temperature, etc. The temperature information is very important, and the BMC can set the fan rotating speed according to different temperatures, so that the external card works at a proper temperature, otherwise, the external card is damaged, and the server can not normally operate seriously.

Therefore, a stable and convenient monitoring mode is needed to monitor the external PCIE device. Because PCIE links in the motherboard hardware are all connected to the CPU, the BMC cannot acquire detailed information (including vendor, type, and other physical characteristics of the external device) of the current PCIE device, so the current implementation mode is that after the system is started, the BIOS (Basic Input Output System ) acquires information of the external device, and then the information is sent to the BMC through a system interface, after the BMC receives the information, the BMC dynamically loads hardware connection information of the device, and then different threads are established to monitor different PCIE devices.

The BMC and the BIOS are very strong in coupling, when a system cannot be started or asset information sent by the BIOS is wrong (such as the condition of card failure or bandwidth failure, etc.), normal asset information cannot be obtained by the BMC, monitoring of PCIE equipment cannot be performed normally, static information and dynamic information of PCIE cannot be obtained, and PCIE equipment cannot work normally after temperature is out of control. There is therefore a need for a stable way to decouple the asset information of the BMC and BIOS.

Disclosure of Invention

Aiming at the problems, the invention aims to provide a decoupling method, a decoupling system and a decoupling device for BMC and BIOS asset information, which ensure that the BMC does not rely on BIOS to push asset information any more, classifies the configuration mode of external equipment of a server, writes the information into a storage space which is not easy to lose, and directly obtains the information by the BMC, thereby improving the obtaining speed and reducing the error rate.

The invention aims to achieve the aim, and the aim is achieved by the following technical scheme: a method for asset information coupling of a BMC and a BIOS, comprising:

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

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

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

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

the BMC obtains PCIE equipment information according to the configuration of the external equipment, and dynamically loads a physical location information table;

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

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

Further, the configuration mode of the external device of the server includes: 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 that the server is specifically configured with 8 GPUs, 2 network cards and 1 Raid card;

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

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

Further, the PCIE device information includes:

position information of PCIE equipment, manufacturer information of the PCIE equipment and type information of the PCIE equipment.

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

Further, the thread monitoring and information obtaining of the PCIE device includes:

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

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

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 obtained PCIE device information includes:

and displaying the acquired static information of the PCIE equipment, and carrying out alarming and fan regulation according to the acquired dynamic information of the PCIE equipment.

Correspondingly, the invention also discloses a BMC and BIOS asset information coupling system, 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 main board through the burning tool;

the sharing unit is used for starting the BMC, acquiring the 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 external equipment configuration and dynamically loading a physical location information table;

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

and the regulating and controlling 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 asset information coupling programs 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 according to any one of the above steps when being executed by a processor.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that: the invention provides a decoupling method, a decoupling system and a decoupling device for BMC and BIOS asset information, which ensure that the BMC does not rely on BISO to push the asset information any more, but 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, carrying out communication according to the related physical protocol, and monitoring static and dynamic information of the PCIE equipment. Therefore, the PCIE equipment monitoring model can be quickly and accurately built, and stable operation of the server is maintained.

The method and the device 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, a configuration mode can be formulated according to different external equipment combinations, and a written burning tool is used for writing into a nonvolatile storage space on a server mainboard by one key, so that convenience and rapidness are realized.

The invention is not only suitable for decoupling asset information between BMC and BIOS, but also suitable for decoupling other information, and has wide application.

It can be seen that the present invention has outstanding substantial features and significant advances over the prior art, as well as the benefits of its implementation.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings that are required to be used in the embodiments or the description of the prior art will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only embodiments of the present invention, and that other drawings can be obtained according to the provided drawings without inventive effort for a person skilled in the art.

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

fig. 2 is a system configuration 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; 7 is a regulating unit.

Detailed Description

The invention aims to provide an asset information coupling method of a BMC and a BIOS, wherein in the prior art, monitoring of PCIE equipment is realized 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, normal asset information cannot be obtained at the side of the BMC, monitoring of the PCIE equipment cannot be performed normally, static information and dynamic information of the PCIE cannot be obtained, and the PCIE equipment cannot work normally after the temperature is out of control.

According to the decoupling method of the BMC and the BIOS asset information, the asset information is directly written into a storage space which is not easy to lose, the BMC is used for obtaining the asset information, and then the physical connection table is dynamically loaded according to the asset information, so that the physical connection information is obtained. And finally, carrying out communication according to the related physical protocol, and monitoring static and dynamic information of the PCIE equipment. Therefore, the BMC does not rely on the BIOS to push asset information any more, but classifies the configuration mode of the external equipment of the server, writes the information into a storage space which is not easy to lose, and directly acquires the information by the BMC, so that the acquisition speed is improved, and the error rate is reduced.

In order to better understand the aspects of the present invention, the present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and detailed description. It will be apparent that the described embodiments are only some, but not all, embodiments of the invention. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the invention without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the invention.

Embodiment one:

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

s1: and determining the configuration mode of the external equipment of the server, and obtaining 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 that the server is specifically configured with 8 GPUs, 2 network cards and 1 Raid card; the configuration mode of the external equipment of the second server is that the server is specifically configured with 4 GPUs and 2 Raid cards.

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

The step provides a tool for writing configuration information of the external equipment for burning in factories, which is favorable for large-scale rapid production.

S3: and writing the configuration information of the external equipment of the server into a nonvolatile storage space of the server main board through a burning tool.

The configuration information of the external device is quickly written into the nonvolatile storage space of the server through the burning tool, and the method has the advantages of specific power failure, no loss and lifelong effectiveness, and does not need to be written again.

S4: 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.

And sharing the configuration information of the external equipment of the server written in the memory, and being 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 location information table.

The PCIE device information includes: position information of PCIE equipment, manufacturer information of the PCIE equipment and type information of the PCIE equipment. 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: PN code, SN code, vendor name, bandwidth, PCIE link information and firmware version number of 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 PCIE equipment according to the acquired PCIE equipment information.

Specifically, the obtained static information of the PCIE device is displayed, and alarm and fan regulation 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 decoupling method for asset information of a BMC and BIOS, which is used for directly writing the asset information into a storage space which is not easy to lose, and acquiring the asset information by the BMC, so that the BMC does not depend on BISO any more to push the asset information. And then dynamically loading the physical connection table according to the asset information to acquire the physical connection information. And finally, carrying out communication according to the related physical protocol, and monitoring static and dynamic information of the PCIE equipment. Therefore, the PCIE equipment monitoring model can be quickly and accurately built, and stable operation of the server is maintained.

Embodiment two:

based on the first embodiment, as shown in fig. 2, the invention also discloses a decoupling system of BMC and BIOS asset information, comprising: the system 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 regulating and controlling unit 7.

The configuration information obtaining unit 1 is configured to determine a configuration mode of an 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 the 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 main board through the burning tool.

And the sharing unit 4 is used for starting the BMC, acquiring the 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 location information table.

And the monitoring unit 6 is used for carrying out thread monitoring and information acquisition on the PCIE equipment.

And the regulating and controlling unit 7 is used for regulating and controlling the PCIE equipment according to the acquired PCIE equipment information.

The embodiment provides a decoupling system for BMC and BIOS asset information, which can classify the configuration modes of external devices of a 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, a configuration mode can be formulated according to different external equipment combinations, and a written burning tool is used for writing into a nonvolatile storage space on a server mainboard by one key, so that convenience and rapidness are realized.

Embodiment III:

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

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

2. 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 a nonvolatile storage space of the server main board through a burning tool.

4. 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.

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

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

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

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

the input interface is used for acquiring a decoupling program of externally imported BMC and BIOS asset information, storing the acquired decoupling program of BMC and BIOS asset information into the memory, and acquiring various instructions and parameters transmitted by external terminal equipment and transmitting the various instructions and parameters into the processor so that the processor can develop corresponding processing by utilizing the various 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 image file to 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 by knocking the key cap in real time.

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

A mouse may be used to assist a user in inputting data and to simplify user operations.

Embodiment four:

the present embodiment also discloses 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, hard disk, removable disk, CD-ROM, or any other form of storage medium known in the art. The readable storage medium stores a decoupling program of BMC and BIOS asset information, and the decoupling program of BMC and BIOS asset information realizes the following steps when being executed by a processor:

In summary, the BMC does not rely on the BIOS to push asset information any more, but classifies the configuration mode of the external device of the server, writes the information into a storage space which is not easy to lose, and directly acquires the information by the BMC, so that the acquisition speed is improved, and the error rate is reduced.

In this specification, each embodiment is described in a progressive manner, and each embodiment is mainly described in a different point from other embodiments, so that the same or similar parts between the embodiments are referred to each other. For the method disclosed in the embodiment, since it corresponds to the system disclosed in the embodiment, the description is relatively simple, and the relevant points refer to the description of the method section.

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 elements and steps are described above generally in terms of functionality in order to clearly illustrate the 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 solution. 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 several embodiments provided by the present invention, it should be understood that the disclosed systems, and methods may be implemented in other ways. For example, the system embodiments described above are merely illustrative, e.g., the division of the elements is merely a logical functional division, and there may be additional divisions when actually implemented, e.g., multiple elements or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted or not performed. Alternatively, the coupling or direct coupling or communication connection shown or discussed with each other may be through some interface, system or unit indirect coupling or communication connection, which may be in electrical, mechanical or other form.

The units described as separate units may or may not be physically separate, and units shown 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 may be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of this embodiment.

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

Similarly, each processing unit in the embodiments of the present invention may be integrated in one functional module, or each processing unit may exist physically, or two or more processing units may be integrated in 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. The software modules may be disposed 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 is further noted that relational terms such as first and second, and the like are 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. Moreover, 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 one … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

The method, the system, the device and the readable storage medium for decoupling BMC and BIOS asset information provided by the invention are described in detail above. The principles and embodiments of the present invention have been described herein with reference to specific examples, the description of which is intended only to facilitate an understanding of the method of the present invention and its core ideas. It should be noted that it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and adaptations of the invention can be made without departing from the principles of the invention and these modifications and adaptations are intended to be within the scope of the invention as defined in the following claims.

Claims

1. A method for coupling asset information of a BMC and a BIOS, comprising:

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

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

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 second server is that the server is specifically configured with 4 GPUs and 2 Raid cards;

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

2. The method for coupling asset information of BMC and BIOS of claim 1, wherein the PCIE device information comprises:

3. The method of asset information coupling of BMC and BIOS of claim 1, wherein the physical location information table stores I2C linked information corresponding to different physical locations.

4. The method for coupling asset information of BMC and BIOS of claim 1, wherein the performing thread monitoring and information acquisition on PCIE devices comprises:

5. The method for coupling asset information of BMC and BIOS of claim 4, wherein the static information of PCIE device comprises: PN code, SN code, manufacturer name, bandwidth, PCIE link information and firmware version number of PCIE equipment;

6. The asset information coupling method of the BMC and the BIOS of claim 5, wherein the performing PCIE device adjustment and control according to the obtained PCIE device information includes:

7. A system for coupling asset information of a BMC and a 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 loading unit is used for controlling the BMC to acquire PCIE equipment information according to the external equipment configuration information and dynamically loading a physical location information table;

the regulating and controlling unit is used for regulating and controlling PCIE equipment according to the acquired PCIE equipment information;

8. An asset information coupling device of a BMC and a BIOS, comprising:

a processor, configured to implement the steps of the method for coupling asset information of the BMC and the BIOS according to any one of claims 1 to 6 when executing the program for coupling asset information of the BMC and the BIOS.