Portable and extensible software architecture for hardware health status monitoring

Abstract

The invention discloses portable and extensible software architecture for hardware health status monitoring. An operating environment programming interface and a hardware access mechanism are abstracted and accessed in a unified mode through a dispatching integration layer, and flexible combination of various operating environments, various hardware platforms, various bus interfaces and various sensor chips is achieved through the combination of a compile time static allocation mechanism and a runtime dynamic detection mechanism. The architecture comprises the operating environment programming interface layer, a hardware abstraction layer and the dispatching integration layer. According to the portable and extensible software architecture, the operating environment programming interface and the hardware access mechanism are abstracted and accessed in the unified mode through the dispatching integration layer, and flexible combination of various operating environments, various hardware platforms, various bus interfaces and various sensor chips is achieved through the combination of the compile time static allocation mechanism and the runtime dynamic detection mechanism. The portable and extensible software architecture is simple in mechanism and high in portability and extensibility and has practicability.

Description

Technical field [0001] The invention relates to the field of computer / industrial control equipment hardware health status monitoring, in particular to a portable and extensible software architecture for hardware health status monitoring. Background technique [0002] In scientific computing, commercial services, industrial control and other fields, various servers, storage, and industrial control equipment all play the role of a nerve center. Once a failure occurs, it will lead to service interruption and equipment failure, or endanger the life of the country and people. Security of property. While pursuing system performance, high capacity, high density and other indicators, users also value the reliability and stability of the system. However, with the development of technology, the complexity of the system has also increased geometrically. It is impossible for system administrators to manually monitor the status of each server / industrial control equipment. Therefore, it is ea...

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Problems solved by technology

The implementation through software mainly includes: everest, cpu-z under Windows, lm-sensors under Linux, etc. The common point of these solutions is that they rely on the specific operating system driver framework for implementation, and rely on the implementation of the operating system , poor scalability and portability

There are mainly various special-purpose single-chip microcomputers / embedded systems and IPMI that are realized through hardware. Among them, special-purpose single-chip microcomputers / embedded systems are often too tightly coupled with the monitored target platform and are difficult to expand; and IPMI, as an open management standard, is normative, The scalability is strong, and it is independent of the operating system. Compared with other solutions, it has great advantages, but this solution also has disadvantages, that is, it needs to integrate BMC on the target platform. This limitation makes it impossible for the designed monitoring on hardware platforms that do not follow the IPMI standard, and will greatly increase hardware costs

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