Method for dynamic setting management function at management interface of intelligent interface

Abstract

This invention discloses a method for dynamically setting management function at intelligent platform management interfaces used in a computer system with IPMI, in which, a manager gets the system state from said IPMI and sets a function module needed by selection of a custom-order to set up an instruction and activate or for bit said module, in which, managers of the system can set function modules quickly and correctly with the help of the IPMI of setting functions dynamically so as to draft special function modules for users in extremely short time.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a method for dynamically setting management functions in an intelligent platform management interface, in particular to a method applied in a computer system with an intelligent platform management interface (IPMI), through which customized commands through the intelligent platform management interface (IPMI OEM command), the system administrator can set the flag state of the required function to activate (enable) or disable (disable) the module of the function. Background technique [0002] Due to the rapid development of information technology and electronic technology, the industry has continuously developed various remote services to meet the needs of users. Taking the intelligent platform management interface commonly used today as an example, the intelligent platform management interface can be used to monitor the physical characteristics of the server, such as temperature, working voltage, fan working status, pow...

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[0007] Generally, if there is no special requirement, the system provider will usually provide the user with the same set of intelligent platform management interface firmware code (IPMI firmware code), and provide the developed functions to the user. The new function has special requirements, and the system provider will add the new function into the IPMI firmware code, and activate it at the initial startup and provide it for use, but this new function may even be different due to software and hardware The use of other functions will be limited due to this feature, but since system providers share a set of IPMI firmware code, users who do not need new functions must bear the restrictions on other functions

To avoid the occurrence of the above situation, it is necessary to create different IPMI firmware codes according to the needs of different users, which will cause a burden on the design cost of the system provider and the disadvantage that it is not easy to be universal. , and because the above-mentioned special needs vary with different customers, different new functions must be provided, which further leads to more restricted situations of different functions, so that not only cannot meet the needs of users quickly, correctly and effectively, but also Cannot be used universally on different firmware and hardware platforms

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