MONITORING ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS ASSOCIATED WITH COMPUTER EQUIPMENT

• US 20160283343A1
• Filed: 03/27/2015
• Published: 09/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CA, Inc. (d/b/a CA Technologies) (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: CA, Inc. (d/b/a CA Technologies) (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: Cattoen, Francois, Koponen, Janne, Ananchaperumal, Dhesikan
• Granted Patent: US 10,216,604 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3058 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring environmental properties or parameters of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring of power, currents, temperature, humidity, position, vibrations thermal management in cooling arrangements of a computing system G06F1/206
• 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 11/3065 Monitoring arrangements determined by the means or processing involved in reporting the monitored data error or fault reporting or logging G06F11/0766
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/32 with visual or acoustical indication of the functioning of the machine

Abstract

A method for monitoring environmental parameters associated with computer equipment is described. According to the method a number of environmental parameters related to a number of computing devices are measured using a number of sensors associated with, and located at, a number of computing devices. The sensed environmental parameters are displayed, with a computer, based on an actual view of the number of computing devices. The displayed sensed environmental parameters create a spatial relation with a space to which each sensed environmental parameter pertains.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for monitoring computer equipment, the method comprising:

measuring, using a number of sensors located at and, associated with a number of computing devices, a number of environmental parameters related to the number of computing devices; and

with a computer, displaying sensed environmental parameters, based on an actual view of the number of computing devices, to create a spatial relation between a display of the sensed environmental parameters and a space to which each sensed environmental parameter pertains.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a set of supplemental environmental parameters, the supplemental environmental parameters representing environmental parameters to supplement the sensed environmental parameters; and

adjusting the sensed environmental parameters based on the set of supplemental environmental parameters.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising, with an image of the actual view of the number of computing devices, displaying the sensed environmental parameters superimposed on the image in accordance with each sensed environmental parameter being displayed at a space on the image to which each parameter pertains.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein measuring, using the number of sensors associated with the number of computing devices, the number of environmental parameters related to the number of computing devices, comprises measuring temperature.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein measuring, using the number of sensors associated with the number of computing devices, the number of environmental parameters related to the number of computing devices comprises, measuring electricity usage.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein measuring, using the number of sensors associated with the number of computing devices, the number of environmental parameters related to the number of computing devices comprises, measuring usage of the number of computing devices.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising presenting a message when a sensed environmental parameter measures outside of a policy range.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising viewing the actual view of the number of computing devices through an optical device worn by a user and displaying the sensed environmental parameters with the optical device worn by the user, the environmental parameters being displayed on the optical device at locations in the actual view seen through the optical device corresponding to each of those parameters.

9. A system for monitoring computer equipment, the system comprising:

a processor;

memory, communicatively connected to the processor;

a computer display, communicatively connected to the processor; and

an rack environment monitoring system to use the processor to execute modules, the rack environment monitoring system comprising;

a measuring module, to measure, using a number of sensors located at and, associated with, a number of computing devices, a number of environmental parameters related to the number of computing devices;

a receiving module, to receive a set of supplemental environmental parameters, the supplemental environmental parameters representing environmental parameters to supplement the sensed environmental parameters;

an adjusting module, to adjust the sensed environmental parameters based on the set of supplemental environmental parameters;

a displaying module, to display sensed environmental parameters, based on an actual view of the number of computing devices, to create a spatial relation between a display of the sensed environmental parameters and a space to which each sensed environmental parameter pertains;

a superimposing module, to display the sensed environmental parameters by superimposing the sensed environmental parameters on image at a space on the image to which each parameter pertains; and

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a presenting module, to present a message when a sensed environmental parameter measure outside a policy range.

10. The system of claim 9, further comprising an optical device worn by a user, and the rack environment monitoring system viewing the actual view of the number of computing devices through an optical device worn by a user and displaying sensed environmental parameters with the optical device worn by the user, the environmental parameters being displayed on the optical device at locations in the actual view seen through the optical device corresponding to each of those environmental parameters.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the measuring module measures temperature.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the measuring module measures electricity usage.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the measuring module measures usage of the number of computing devices.

14. A computer program product for monitoring computing equipment, the computer program product comprising:

a non-transitory tangible computer readable storage medium, said tangible computer readable storage medium comprising computer readable program code embodied therewith, said computer readable program code comprising program instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to;

measure, using a number of sensors located at and, associated with, a number of computing devices, a number of environmental parameters related to the number of computing devices;

receive a set of supplemental environmental parameters, the supplemental environmental parameters representing environmental parameters to supplement the sensed environmental parameters;

adjust the sensed environmental parameters based on the set of supplemental environmental parameters; and

display sensed environmental parameters to create a spatial relation between a display, based on an actual view of the number of computing devices, of the sensed environmental parameters and a space to which each sensed environmental parameter pertains.

15. The product of claim 14, further comprising, with an image of the actual view of the number of computing devices, displaying the sensed environmental parameters superimposed superimposed on the image in accordance with each sensed environmental parameter being displayed at a space on the image to which each parameter pertains.

16. The product of claim 15, further comprising computer readable program code comprising program instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to present a message when the sensed environmental parameters measure outside a policy range.

17. The product of claim 14, wherein the computer readable program code comprising program instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to measure, using the number of sensors associated with the number of computing devices, a number of environmental parameters related to the number of computing devices comprises measuring temperature.

18. The product of claim 14, wherein the computer readable program code comprising program instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to measure, using the number of sensors associated with the number of computing devices, the number of environmental parameters related to a number of computing devices comprises measuring electricity usage.

19. The product of claim 14, wherein the computer readable program code comprising program instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to measure, using the number of sensors associated with the number of computing devices, the number of environmental parameters related to the number of computing devices comprises measuring usage of the number of computing devices.

20. The product of claim 14, further comprising computer readable program code comprising program instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to present a message when a sensed environmental parameter measure is outside of a policy range.