Information processing device that monitors operation of storage utilizing specific device being connected to storage

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10416913-B2
Application number	US-201715710220-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 20, 2017
Priority date	Mar 26, 2015
Publication date	Sep 17, 2019
Grant date	Sep 17, 2019

Abstract

An information processing device including: a processor configured to collect information on a connected expansion device; and a controller configured to receive the information on the expansion device from the processor, to determine, with respect to a type of an expansion device, whether the expansion device is a specific device that is connected to a storage, and to perform, when the expansion device has been determined to be the specific device, monitoring processing of monitoring an operation of the storage based on information on the storage that is obtained from the specific device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An information processing device comprising:
a processor configured to execute an operating system; and
a baseboard management controller configured to monitor operations of components of the information processing device including the processor, wherein
the processor collects information on an expansion device connected to the information processing device, and
the baseboard management controller receives the information on the expansion device from the processor, determines, with respect to a type of an expansion device, whether the expansion device is a specific device that is connected to a storage, and, when the expansion device has been determined to be the specific device, performs, instead of the processor which executes the operating system, monitoring processing of monitoring an operation of the storage connected to the specific device based on information on the storage that is obtained from the specific device.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein
the processor collects the information on the expansion device when the information processing device is started, and transmits the information on the expansion device to the baseboard management controller, and
when the baseboard management controller receives, from the processor, a report that execution of the operating system has been started after the specific device was initialized and the execution of the operating system was started, the baseboard management controller inquires of the specific device about the information on the storage, and starts the monitoring processing based on the information on the storage.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the baseboard management controller obtains information indicating the operation of the storage from the specific device at specified time intervals.

4. The information processing device according to claim 3 , wherein the processor determines whether the sum of pieces of information on a state of the storage that is being monitored is greater than a threshold, determines that the storage is to be replaced when the sum is greater than the threshold, and makes an offline request to the specific device when the storage is redundant, the pieces of information on a state of the storage being obtained from the specific device.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein
the information on the expansion device includes type information that identifies the expansion device, and
the baseboard management controller determines the type of the expansion device using the type information.

Assignees

• Fujitsu Ltd

Inventors

• Watanabe Ryosuke

Classifications

• G06F3/0689

  Disk arrays, e.g. RAID, JBOD · CPC title

• G06F3/0605 Primary

  by facilitating the interaction with a user or administrator · CPC title

• G06F3/0634 Primary

  by changing the state or mode of one or more devices · CPC title

• G06F3/0653

  Monitoring storage devices or systems · CPC title