Supercharge Your Innovation With Domain-Expert AI Agents!

Baseboard management controller sharing method

A management controller and substrate management technology, applied in the server field, can solve problems such as declining competitiveness and increasing prices

Active Publication Date: 2014-11-05
安徽爱意爱机电科技有限公司
View PDF3 Cites 0 Cited by
  • Summary
  • Abstract
  • Description
  • Claims
  • Application Information

AI Technical Summary

Problems solved by technology

Any unnecessary components (such as VGA ports, serial ports) are included in mass-produced products, or functionally repetitive components (such as baseboard management controllers) are configured on nodes, the price of the product will be relatively land increases, competitiveness decreases

Method used

the structure of the environmentally friendly knitted fabric provided by the present invention; figure 2 Flow chart of the yarn wrapping machine for environmentally friendly knitted fabrics and storage devices; image 3 Is the parameter map of the yarn covering machine
View more

Image

Smart Image Click on the blue labels to locate them in the text.
Viewing Examples
Smart Image
  • Baseboard management controller sharing method
  • Baseboard management controller sharing method
  • Baseboard management controller sharing method

Examples

Experimental program
Comparison scheme
Effect test

no. 1 example

[0050] figure 1 It is a block diagram of a server system sharing a baseboard management controller according to the first embodiment of the present invention. Please refer to figure 1 , the server system 100 of the present embodiment includes four nodes 110, 120, 130 and 140, and a hub 150 and a sub-board 160, and its functions are described as follows:

[0051] The nodes 110, 120, 130, and 140 are respectively an independent computer system, which includes computer components such as a central processing unit (Central Processing Unit, CPU), a memory, a north bridge chip, a south bridge chip, and a network chip configured on a substrate. Can be used as a data center.

[0052] The hub 150 is, for example, a middle plane, which has connection ports 151, 152, 153, 154 and a switch 155, wherein the connection ports 151, 152, 153, 154 are respectively connected to multiple nodes 110, 120, 130, and 140. pins, and a switch 155 is connected to the connection ports 151, 152, 153, 15...

no. 2 example

[0067] Figure 4 It is a block diagram of a server system sharing a baseboard management controller according to the second embodiment of the present invention. Please refer to image 3 , the server system 400 of this embodiment includes substrates 410, 420, 430, 440, a hub 450 and a sub-board 460, and their functions are described as follows:

[0068] The substrates 410, 420, 430, and 440 are respectively configured with two nodes and a common connection port. For example, the substrate 410 is configured with node 1, node 2 and a common connection port 415, and node 1 includes a chipset 411 and a signal generator 412. , the node 2 includes a chipset 413 and a signal generator 414 . Wherein, the chipset 411 of node 1 has two first USB port pins (USB port1), two second USB port pins (USB port2), and four high-speed peripheral component interconnection (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express, PCIE) ports pin (PCIE port) and two first general purpose input and output pins (...

no. 3 example

[0083] The method of this embodiment is applied when no node uses the device management function of the BMC 462 . Figure 5 It is a flowchart of a method for sharing a baseboard management controller according to the third embodiment of the present invention. Please refer to Figure 4 , the method of this example is applicable to Figure 4 The server system 400, the following is to use Figure 4 Each element in to illustrate the detailed steps of this method:

[0084] First, the baseboard management controller 462 on the sub-board 460 receives a user request command for one of nodes 1 to 8 (step S502), and controls the switch 455 on the hub 450 to switch to the node requested by the request command (step S504 ), and output an installation signal to the first input pin ( GPI1 ) of the node requested to switch to by the request command through the second output pin ( GPO2 ) (step S506 ).

[0085] After the node receives the installation signal, it triggers a system interrupt...

the structure of the environmentally friendly knitted fabric provided by the present invention; figure 2 Flow chart of the yarn wrapping machine for environmentally friendly knitted fabrics and storage devices; image 3 Is the parameter map of the yarn covering machine
Login to View More

PUM

No PUM Login to View More

Abstract

The invention discloses a baseboard management controller sharing server system and a baseboard management controller sharing method. The server system comprises a plurality of nodes, a hub and a daughter board, wherein each node comprises a plurality of pins; the hub has a plurality of connection ports and switchers, the connection ports are connected with the pins corresponding to the nodes and the switchers are used for switching the connection ports; and the daughter board comprises a baseboard management controller connected with the switchers. When the baseboard management controller receives a request instruction for a node, the baseboard management controller controls the switchers to switch the connection ports for connecting the node with the baseboard management controller, and the baseboard management controller transmits an installation signal through a general output pin to inform an operating system of the node to install a video interface drive program; and after the installation is finished, the node can use peripheral devices connected with the daughter board by the device management function of the baseboard management controller.

Description

technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a server, and in particular to a method for sharing a baseboard management controller in the server. Background technique [0002] As far as the application of the server is concerned, if it is used as a data center (Data Center), each node (Node) in the system includes a video image array (Video Graphics Array, VGA) port, a serial port (serial port), a substrate Components such as the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) virtually increase the manufacturing cost, and waste the functionality provided by the component itself and the repetition of functions. Because most of the time, the VGA port and the serial port on the node are in an idle state, and the function of the baseboard management controller can also be shared. Any unnecessary components (such as VGA ports, serial ports) are included in mass-produced products, or functionally repetitive components (such as baseboard management controllers) are configured on...

Claims

the structure of the environmentally friendly knitted fabric provided by the present invention; figure 2 Flow chart of the yarn wrapping machine for environmentally friendly knitted fabrics and storage devices; image 3 Is the parameter map of the yarn covering machine
Login to View More

Application Information

Patent Timeline
no application Login to View More
Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): H04L12/24H04L29/08G06F13/38G06F9/445
Inventor 卢盈志黄文彬
Owner 安徽爱意爱机电科技有限公司
Features
  • R&D
  • Intellectual Property
  • Life Sciences
  • Materials
  • Tech Scout
Why Patsnap Eureka
  • Unparalleled Data Quality
  • Higher Quality Content
  • 60% Fewer Hallucinations
Social media
Patsnap Eureka Blog
Learn More

Browse by: Latest US Patents, China's latest patents, Technical Efficacy Thesaurus, Application Domain, Technology Topic, Popular Technical Reports.

© 2025 PatSnap. All rights reserved.Legal|Privacy policy|Modern Slavery Act Transparency Statement|Sitemap|About US| Contact US: help@patsnap.com