METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT IN A DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM CHASSIS

• US 20150160627A1
• Filed: 12/05/2013
• Published: 06/11/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Maddukuri, Akkiah Choudary, Mugunda, Chandrasekhar, Liles, Terry Wayne, Weilnau, Wayne Robert Jr., Gnanasambandam, Balamurugan
• Application Number:
  US14/097,784
• Publication Number:
  US 20150160627A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/20 Cooling means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/206 comprising thermal management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/409 Mechanical coupling back panels H05K7/1438
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/20727 within server blades for removing heat from heat source

Abstract

In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for use in a chassis having a plurality of slots each configured to receive a module having one or more information handling systems wherein each slot is configured to electrically and communicatively couple the module to other components of the chassis may be provided. The method may include receiving, by a controller integral to the chassis, a signal from a sensor integral to the chassis, the signal indicative of a measured physical quantity of the sensor. The method may also include communicating, from the controller to a remote access controller integral to at least one module disposed in the plurality of slots, sensor information in conformity with the signal.

Claims

1. A method comprising, in a chassis having a plurality of slots each configured to receive a module having one or more information handling systems wherein each slot is configured to electrically and communicatively couple the module to other components of the chassis:

receiving, by a controller integral to the chassis, a signal from a sensor integral to the chassis, the signal indicative of a measured physical quantity of the sensor; and

communicating, from the controller to a remote access controller integral to at least one module disposed in the plurality of slots, sensor information in conformity with the signal.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, by the controller, whether the measured physical quantity has changed by at least a threshold amount based on the signal; and

responsive to a determination that the measured physical quantity has changed by at least the threshold amount, communicating to the remote access controller an indication that the measured physical quantity has changed.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising receiving a request at the controller from the remote access controller to communicate the sensor information to the remote access controller, wherein the request is sent by the remote access controller in response to the indication and further wherein communicating the sensor information is responsive to receiving the request.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the controller is a chassis management controller.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the controller and the remote access controller are communicatively coupled via an internal private network integral to the chassis.

6. A method comprising, in a chassis having a plurality of slots each configured to receive a module having one or more information handling systems wherein each slot is configured to electrically and communicatively couple the module to other components of the chassis:

receiving, by a controller integral to the chassis from a remote access controller integral to the module, a firmware image for application to an information handling resource integral to the chassis; and

performing a firmware update of the information handling resource by applying the firmware image to the information handling resource.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein receiving the firmware image from the remote access controller comprises retrieving the firmware image from the remote access controller in response to an indication from the remote access controller that a firmware update is to be applied to the information handling resource.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the remote access controller communicated the indication in response to receiving a firmware image for the information handling resource.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the controller is a chassis management controller.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the controller and the remote access controller are communicatively coupled via an internal private network integral to the chassis.

11. A method comprising, in a chassis having a plurality of slots each configured to receive a module having one or more information handling systems wherein each slot is configured to electrically and communicatively couple the module to other components of the chassis:

receiving, by a controller integral to the chassis from a remote access controller integral to the module, a request for allocation of storage media dedicated to the controller as storage for the remote access controller; and

responsive to the request;

allocating a portion of the storage media to the remote access controller; and

communicating an identifier of the allocated portion of the storage media to the remote access controller, such that the remote access controller may mount the allocated portion as a logical storage medium of the remote access controller.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein allocating the portion of the store media comprises creating a share comprising the allocated portion.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the identifier comprises a share name of the share.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the controller is a chassis management controller.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the controller and the remote access controller are communicatively coupled via an internal private network integral to the chassis.