Method and system for controlling powers of a plurality of servers

• US 20070033438A1
• Filed: 08/03/2005
• Published: 02/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Insyde Software Corp
• Original Assignee: Wellsyn Technology, Inc.
• Inventors: Hsieh, Chih-tao
• Granted Patent: US 7,533,281 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/24
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/00 Error detection; Error correction; Monitoring error detection, correction or monitoring in information storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer G11B20/18; monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing G11B27/36; in static stores G11C29/00

Abstract

A method and system of controlling powers of a plurality of servers with a power control command mechanism. The system for controlling powers of a plurality of servers compatible with an intelligent platform management interface comprises a console unit, a command mechanism and a plurality of control modules. The console unit generates a request to control a plurality of powers of the servers. The command mechanism coupled to the console unit transforms the request coming from the console unit into a plurality of commands and sends the commands to the servers sequentially; and the control modules coupled to the command mechanism and corresponding to the servers respectively implement the commands to control the powers of the servers sequentially.

Claims

1. A method of power down a plurality of servers having a plurality of controller modules with intelligent platform management interface, the method comprising the steps of:

generating a request to control a plurality of powers of the servers via a console unit;

transforming the request from the console unit into a plurality of commands using a command mechanism;

sending out the commands to the controller modules of the servers by the command mechanism sequentially; and

implementing the commands to shut down the servers sequentially.

2. The method of claim 1, after the step of transforming the request into the commands, further comprising accessing an order information of the commands in an order table.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the order information within the order table comprises a plurality of Internet Protocol addresses assigned to the servers.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the order information within the order table comprises a plurality of serial numbers assigned to the servers.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the order information of the order table is a random sequence for sending out the commands to the control modules.

6. The method of claim 1, after the step of implementing the commands to shut down the servers sequentially, further comprising forwarding a plurality of responding signals corresponding to the commands into the console unit via the command mechanism.

7. A method of controlling a plurality of servers having a plurality of controller modules with intelligent platform management interface, the method comprising the steps of:

generating a request to control a plurality of powers of the servers via a console unit;

transforming the request from the console unit into a plurality of commands using a command mechanism;

sending out the commands to the controller modules of the servers by the command mechanism sequentially; and

implementing the commands to control the powers of the servers sequentially.

8. The method of claim 7, after the step of transforming the request into a plurality of commands, further comprising accessing an order information of the commands in an order table.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the order information within the order table comprises a plurality of Internet Protocol addresses assigned to the servers.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the order information within the order table comprises a plurality of serial numbers assigned to the servers.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the order information of the order table is a random sequence for sending out the commands to the control modules.

12. The method of claim 7, after the step of implementing the commands to control the servers sequentially, further comprising forwarding a plurality of responding signals corresponding to the commands into the console unit via the command mechanism.

13. A system for controlling power of a plurality of servers compatible with an intelligent platform management interface, the system comprising:

a console unit, generating a request to control a plurality of powers of the

a command mechanism coupled to the console unit, transforming the request from the console unit into a plurality of commands and sending the commands to the servers sequentially; and

a plurality of control modules coupled to the command mechanism and corresponding to the servers, respectively, implementing the commands to shut down the servers sequentially.

14. The system for power down the servers of claim 13, wherein at least one of the controller modules is baseboard management controller while the rest are mini-baseboard management controllers.

15. The system for power down the servers of claim 14, further comprising an order table in the command mechanism to access the order information of the commands corresponding to the servers.

16. The system for power down the servers of claim 15, wherein the order information within the order table comprises a plurality of Internet Protocol addresses assigned to the servers.

17. The system for power down the servers of claim 16, wherein the order information within the order table comprises a plurality of serial numbers assigned to the servers.

18. The system for power down the servers of claim 17, wherein the order information of the order table is a random sequence for sending out the commands to the control modules.

19. The system for power down the servers of claim 13, wherein the control modules forward a plurality of responding signals corresponding to the commands into the console unit via the command mechanism after implementing the commands to shut down the servers sequentially.