Decommission of a Server in Wireless Environment

• US 20140115148A1
• Filed: 11/08/2012
• Published: 04/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Abuelsaad, Tamer E., Moore, John E., Singi, Rajeshkumar N., Wentworth, Robert R.
• Application Number:
  US13/671,718
• Publication Number:
  US 20140115148A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3041 where the computing system component is an input/output interface interconnection of, or transfer of information or other signals between, memories, input/output devices or central processing units G06F13/00
• 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 11/3062 where the monitored property is the power consumption power management in a computing system G06F1/3203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3089 Monitoring arrangements determined by the means or processing involved in sensing the monitored data, e.g. interfaces, connectors, sensors, probes, agents software debugging using additional hardware using a specific debug interface G06F11/3656; performance evaluation by tracing or monitoring G06F11/3466
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/81 Threshold
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring

Abstract

An embodiment of the invention provides a device for monitoring activity of a computing device wirelessly connected to a network, wherein the device includes a first interface for connecting the device to the computing device. A second interface wirelessly connects the device to the network. A sensor connected to the second interface measures wireless network traffic to the computing device and/or wireless network traffic from the computing device. Another embodiment of the invention provides a computing device having an interface for wirelessly connecting to a network. A sensor connected to the interface measures wireless network traffic to the computing device and/or wireless network traffic from the computing device. A processor connected to the sensor compares the network traffic to the computing device and/or the network traffic from the computing device to one or more thresholds to determine whether the computing device should be decommissioned.

Claims

1. A method for monitoring activity of a computing device wirelessly connected to a network, said method comprising:

connecting a monitoring device to the computing device;

wirelessly connecting the monitoring device to the network;

connecting the monitoring device to a power source; and

measuring at least one of wireless network traffic to the computing device and wireless network traffic from the computing device.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said connecting of the monitoring device to a power source includes wirelessly connecting a wireless power receiver of the monitoring device to a wireless power source.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising identifying at least one of:

a device identifier of a device accessing the computing device; and

at least one protocol used to access the computing device.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising comparing at least one of the network traffic to the computing device and the network traffic from the computing device to at least one threshold to determine whether the computing device should be decommissioned.

5. The method according to claim 1, further including measuring power consumption of the computing device.

6. The method according to claim 5, further comprising comparing the power consumption of the computing device to a threshold to determine whether the computing device should be decommissioned.

7. The method according to claim 5, further comprising wirelessly transmitting at least one of wireless network traffic to the computing device measurements, wireless network traffic from the computing device measurements, and power consumption of the computing device measurements to an external device.

8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising identifying the computing device with an RFID sensor.

9. A method for monitoring activity of a computing device wirelessly connected to a network, said method comprising:

connecting a monitoring device to the computing device;

wirelessly connecting the monitoring device to the network;

wirelessly connecting the monitoring device to a wireless power source;

measuring at least one of wireless network traffic to the computing device and wireless network traffic from the computing device; and

comparing at least one of the network traffic to the computing device and the network traffic from the computing device to at least one threshold to determine whether the computing device should be decommissioned.

10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising identifying at least one of:

a device identifier of a device accessing the computing device; and

at least one protocol used to access the computing device.

11. The method according to claim 9, further including measuring power consumption of the computing device.

12. The method according to claim 11, further comprising comparing the power consumption of the computing device to a threshold to determine whether the computing device should be decommissioned.

13. The method according to claim 11, further comprising wirelessly transmitting at least one of wireless network traffic to the computing device measurements, wireless network traffic from the computing device measurements, and power consumption of the computing device measurements to an external device.

14. The method according to claim 9, further comprising identifying the computing device with an RFID sensor.

15. A method for monitoring activity of a computing device wirelessly connected to a network, said method comprising:

connecting a monitoring device to the computing device;

wirelessly connecting the monitoring device to the network;

wirelessly connecting the monitoring device to a wireless power source;

measuring at least one of wireless network traffic to the computing device and wireless network traffic from the computing device; and

wirelessly transmitting at least one of wireless network traffic to the computing device measurements and wireless network traffic from the computing device measurements to an external device.

16. The method according to claim 15, further comprising identifying at least one of:

a device identifier of a device accessing the computing device; and

at least one protocol used to access the computing device.

17. The method according to claim 15, further comprising comparing at least one of the network traffic to the computing device and the network traffic from the computing device to at least one threshold to determine whether the computing device should be decommissioned.

18. The method according to claim 15, further including:

measuring power consumption of the computing device; and

comparing the power consumption of the computing device to a threshold to determine whether the computing device should be decommissioned.

19. The method according to claim 18, further comprising wirelessly transmitting power consumption of the computing device measurements to an external device.

20. The method according to claim 15, further comprising identifying the computing device with an RFID sensor.

21. A method for monitoring activity of a computing device wirelessly connected to a network, said method comprising:

wirelessly connecting the computing device to the network;

measuring at least one of wireless network traffic to the computing device and wireless network traffic from the computing device;

comparing at least one of the network traffic to the computing device and the network traffic from the computing device to at least one threshold; and

determining whether the computing device should be decommissioned based on said comparing of the at least one of the network traffic to the computing device and the network traffic from the computing device to the at least one threshold.

22. The method according to claim 21, further comprising wirelessly connecting a wireless power receiver of the computing device to a wireless power source.

23. The method according to claim 21, further comprising identifying at least one of:

a device identifier of a device accessing the computing device; and

at least one protocol used to access the computing device.

24. The method according to claim 21, further comprising measuring power consumption of the computing device.

25. The method according to claim 24, further comprising:

comparing the power consumption of the computing device to a power threshold; and

determining whether the computing device should be decommissioned based on said comparing of the power consumption of the computing device to the power threshold.