Server Module Configuration via Grouping and Mediation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The configuration of network components in server computing systems is often underrepresented and poorly implemented, making it difficult for users to customize module settings, especially when dealing with various port types and configurations, leading to potential errors and inefficiencies.
Innovation Solution
A configuration management system that includes a hardware profile identification engine, analysis engine, system grouping engine, and module configuration application engine to detect and group server computing systems by model type and module configuration, simplifying the workflow by minimizing user input and reducing errors through automated validation and global configuration application.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional workflows are used for configuring network modules, then users can access individual module interfaces, but the configuration process becomes complex and error-prone
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a configuration management system as an intermediary between the user and the network modules. This system provides a unified interface that abstracts the complexity of individual module configurations, allowing users to manage multiple modules through a single centralized interface rather than accessing each module interface separately.
Solution Approach 2:
The configuration management system serves multiple functions: it discovers hardware profiles, analyzes module configurations, groups modules by type, validates configurations, and applies settings across multiple modules. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate tools or interfaces.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users manually configure each module individually, then specific module settings can be customized, but time consumption and potential for errors increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system groups multiple network modules of the same type together and allows configuration to be applied to the entire group simultaneously. This merging approach maintains the ability to customize specific module settings while eliminating the need to configure each module individually, significantly reducing configuration time.
Solution Approach 2:
The configuration management system performs preliminary actions by automatically discovering hardware profiles, identifying module types, and grouping modules before configuration is applied. This pre-processing organizes the modules in advance, allowing users to configure groups rather than individuals, thereby saving time.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple server computing systems are configured separately, then each system can be customized, but the overall configuration process becomes inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The configuration management system is designed to handle multiple server computing systems through a single unified interface. It can discover, analyze, group, and configure modules across multiple servers simultaneously, maintaining the ability to customize each system while dramatically improving overall configuration efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system merges the configuration processes of multiple server computing systems into a single workflow. By grouping modules across different servers by type and configuration state, it allows batch configuration operations that would otherwise require separate manual processes for each server.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying data indicating respective hardware profiles of the server computing systems; analyzing the hardware profiles, including: detecting, for each of the server computing systems, a model type of the server computing system, and detecting, for each model type of the server computing systems, a module configuration of the server computing system; grouping, for each model type, each server computing system that is associated with a same module configuration into a set of server computing systems; receiving user input indicating selection of at least one set of server computing systems; determining that, for at least one set of server computing systems, that a respective module configuration is to be applied globally based on the user input; and applying the respective module configuration to the at least one set of server computing systems.