Device management method, device, and device management controller

• US 10,042,583 B2
• Filed: 05/04/2017
• Issued: 08/07/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Qiu, Xin, Shi, Jia
• Primary Examiner(s): MISIURA, BRIAN THOMAS
• Application Number:
  US15/587,006
• Publication Number:
  US 20170235519A1
• Time in Patent Office: 460 Days
• Field of Search: 702 57- 60
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/1668 Details of memory controller
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/4282 on a serial bus, e.g. I2C bus, SPI bus on daisy chain buses G06F13/4247
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2213/0026 PCI express
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0613 in relation to throughput
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0635 by changing the path, e.g. traffic rerouting, path reconfiguration
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0653 Monitoring storage devices or systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0655 Vertical data movement, i.e. input-output transfer; data movement between one or more hosts and one or more storage devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0688 Non-volatile semiconductor memory arrays
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0866 Checking the configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/02 Capturing of monitoring data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/08 Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/20 the monitoring system or the monitored elements being virtualised, abstracted or software-defined entities, e.g. SDN or NFV

Abstract

A device management method, a device, and a device management controller are provided. The method includes receiving, by a device, a first instruction message sent by a device management controller, determining, by the device according to the first instruction message, a status of current device management information compared with device management information in a previous query period, generating a first feedback message, where the first feedback message indicates the status of the device management information, and sending, by the device, the first feedback message to the device management controller such that the device management controller manages the device according to the first feedback message. The device feeds back to the device management controller only the status of the current device management information compared with the device management information in the previous query period, effectively reducing a transmission amount of device management information.

Claims

1. A device management method, comprising:

sending, by a baseboard management controller (BMC) in a non-volatile memory express (NVMe) system, an instruction message to instruct multiple NVMe devices in the system to detect device management information, wherein the device management information comprises at least two pieces of the following information;

an in-position status, a temperature, a power status, a working status, storage space, and software configuration information of the device;

comparing, by each NVMe device, each current piece of device management information with each piece of device management information in the previous query period;

determining, by each NVMe device, whether current device management information is changed;

generating, by an NVMe device whose current device management information is changed, a feedback message;

receiving, by the BMC, the feedback message from the NVMe device whose current device management information is changed, wherein the feedback message indicates at least one piece of changed device management information, wherein the feedback message indicates at least one piece of changed device management information using a number and a value, and wherein each number corresponds to each type of the device management information; and

managing, by the BMC, the NVMe device whose current device management information is changed according to the at least one piece of changed device management information.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the NVMe device whose current device management information is changed sends a first feedback message comprising the number of the changed type of the device management information, and sends a second feedback message comprising the changed value of the device management information.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising considering, by the BMC, device management information of an NVMe device which does not send a feedback message as unchanged.

4. A system, comprising:

multiple non-volatile memory express (NVME) devices; and

a baseboard management controller (BMC) configured to send an instruction message to an NVMe system to instruct the multiple NVMe devices in the system to detect device management information, wherein the device management information comprises at least two pieces of the following information;

an in-position status, a temperature, a power status, a working status, storage space, and software configuration information of the device,

wherein each of the multiple NVMe devices is configured to compare each current piece of device management information with each piece of device management information in the previous query period, and determine whether current device management information is changed,

wherein an NVMe device whose current device management information is changed is configured to generate a feedback message,

wherein the BMC is further configured to receive the feedback message from the NVMe device whose current device management information is changed,

wherein the feedback message indicates at least one piece of changed device management information,

wherein the feedback message indicates at least one piece of changed device management information using a number and a value,

wherein each number corresponds to each type of the device management information, and

wherein the BMC manages the NVMe device whose current device management information is changed according to the at least one piece of changed device management information.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein the NVMe device whose current device management information is changed sends a first feedback message comprising the number of the changed type of the device management information, and sends a second feedback message comprising the changed value of the device management information.

6. The system according to claim 4, wherein the BMC is further configured to consider device management information of an NVMe device which does not send a feedback message as unchanged.