SERVER DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REMOTE CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20110029633A1
• Filed: 09/14/2009
• Published: 02/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Original Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Inventors: LU, Hsiao-Fen, CHEN, Chih-Wei
• Application Number:
  US12/558,590
• Publication Number:
  US 20110029633A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/209
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network

Abstract

A server device and a method for remote controlling the server device and the server device are provided. The server device includes a plurality of nodes which are electrically connected to each other. In the method for remote controlling the server device, each of the nodes is first set to a common mode. When a first node among the nodes is logged in by a remote end, the first node enters a master mode from the common mode, and a plurality of second nodes among the rest of the nodes are notified to enter a slave mode from the common mode and can only be controlled by the first node, and then, the first node collects data of all of the nodes.

Claims

1. A method for remote controlling a server device, wherein the sever device comprises a plurality of nodes which are electrically connected to each other, the method comprising:

setting each of the nodes to a common mode, wherein when a first node among the nodes is logged in by a remote end, the method further comprises;

enabling the first node to enter a master mode from the common mode;

notifying a plurality of second nodes among the rest of the nodes to enter a slave mode from the common mode, wherein the second nodes can only be controlled by the first node; and

enabling the first node to collect data of all of the nodes.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

when the remote end issues a data request instruction, enabling the first node to return the data of one of the nodes to the remote end.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

when the remote end issues an instruction of performing a reboot procedure, enabling the first node to control one of the second nodes to perform the reboot procedure in accordance with the instruction of the remote end.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

when the remote end logs out of the first node, enabling the first node to enter the common mode from the master mode, and notifying all of the second nodes to enter the common mode from the slave mode.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein, when entering the common mode, the master mode or the slave mode, each of the nodes records a flag code representing a current mode of each of the nodes.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the nodes are electrically connected to each other via an inter-integrated circuit (I2C) bus.

7. A server device, comprising:

a housing having a back panel, the back panel having an inter-integrated circuit (I2C) bus; and

a plurality of nodes which are pluggable into the back panel and are electrically connected to each other via the I2C bus, wherein, when one of the nodes is logged in by a remote end, the one of the nodes enter a master mode, and the rest of the nodes enter a slave mode and can only be controlled by the one of the nodes.

8. The server device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the nodes have the same specification.

9. The server device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the server device is a high-density server.

10. The server device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the server device is a blade server.