INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND MONITORING METHOD

• US 20160154721A1
• Filed: 09/24/2015
• Published: 06/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Yuuki, Kazuhiro, Yamasaki, Shinichi
• Application Number:
  US14/864,030
• Publication Number:
  US 20160154721A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0706 the processing taking place on a specific hardware platform or in a specific software environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0754 by exceeding limits
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0766 Error or fault reporting or storing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3031 where the computing system component is a motherboard or an expansion card
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3055 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the status of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring if the computing system is on, off, available, not available error or fault processing without redundancy G06F11/0703; error detection or correction by redundancy in data representation G06F11/08; error detection or correction by redundancy in operation G06F11/14; error detection or correction by redundancy in hardware G06F11/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/81 Threshold

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes: a processor; a module; and a controller, wherein the processor is configured to transmit a first condition for detecting an abnormality of the module to the controller, and the controller is configured to: acquire a first information from the module; determine whether the first information satisfies the first condition; and transmit a second information indicating that the abnormality of the module is detected to the processor when the first information satisfies the first condition.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a processor;

a module; and

a controller,

wherein the processor is configured to transmit a first condition for detecting an abnormality of the module to the controller, and

the controller is configured to;

acquire a first information from the module;

determine whether the first information satisfies the first condition; and

transmit a second information indicating that the abnormality of the module is detected to the processor when the first information satisfies the first condition.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first condition includes one or more commands, a threshold value, information indicating a type of an object to be compared, and information indicating whether the determination is to be performed.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to sequentially execute the one or more commands to acquire the first information from the module when the one or more commands are included in the first condition.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a storage device configured to store the first information,

Wherein, when the second information is received from the controller, the processor is configured to read the first information from the storage device, determine whether the first information satisfies the first condition, and execute a processing for coping with the abnormality of the module when the first information satisfies the first condition.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to transmit a first request requesting to stop monitoring of the module to the controller when the first information satisfies the first condition.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to transmit a first request requesting to stop monitoring of the module and a second request requesting to change the first condition to a second condition for detecting the abnormality of the module to the controller.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the controller is configured to stop monitoring of the module and change the first condition to the second condition when the first request and the second request are received from the processor.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to transmit the second information to the processor by an interrupt.

9. An information processing system comprising:

a first information processing apparatus; and

a second information processing apparatus,

wherein the first information processing apparatus is configured to transmit a first condition for detecting an abnormality of a module within the information processing system to the second information processing apparatus, and

the second information processing apparatus is configured to;

acquire a first information from the module,

determine whether the first information satisfies the first condition; and

transmit information indicating that the abnormality of the module is detected to the first information processing apparatus when the first information satisfies the first condition.

10. The information processing system according to claim 9, wherein the first condition includes one or more commands, a threshold value, information indicating a type of an object to be compared, and information indicating whether the determination is to be performed.

11. The information processing system according to claim 9, wherein the second information processing apparatus is configured to sequentially execute the one or more commands to acquire the first information from the module when the one or more commands are included in the first condition.

12. The information processing system according to claim 9, wherein the first information processing apparatus includes a storage device configured to store the first information, the first information processing apparatus is configured to read the first information from the storage device when receiving the second information, determine whether the first information satisfies the first condition, and execute a processing for coping with the abnormality of the module when the first information satisfies the first condition.

13. The information processing system according to claim 9, wherein the first information processing apparatus is configured to transmit a first request requesting to stop monitoring of the module to the second information processing apparatus when the first information satisfies the first condition.

14. The information processing system according to claim 9, wherein the first information processing apparatus is configured to transmit a first request requesting to stop monitoring of the module and a second request requesting to change the first condition to a second condition for detecting the abnormality of the module to the second information processing apparatus.

15. A monitoring method comprising:

transmitting, by a processor, a first condition for detecting an abnormality of a module to a controller;

acquiring, by the controller, a first information from the module;

determining, by the controller, whether the first information satisfies the first condition; and

transmitting, by the controller, a second information indicating that the abnormality of the module is detected to the processor when the first information satisfies the first condition.

16. The monitoring method according to claim 15, wherein the first condition includes one or more commands, a threshold value, information indicating a type of an object to be compared, and information indicating whether the determination is to be performed.

17. The monitoring method according to claim 15, wherein the one or more commands are sequentially executed to acquire the first information from the module when the one or more commands are included in the first condition.

18. The monitoring method according to claim 15, further comprising:

reading the first information from a storage device configured to store the first information when receiving the second information; and

executing a processing for coping with the abnormality of the module when the first information satisfies the first condition.

19. The monitoring method according to claim 15, further comprising:

transmitting a first request requesting to stop monitoring of the module to the controller when the first information satisfies the first condition.

20. The monitoring method according to claim 15, further comprising:

transmitting a first request requesting to stop monitoring of the module and a second request requesting to change the first condition to a second condition for detecting the abnormality of the module to the controller.