Method and system for managing telemetry services for composed information handling systems

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12363203-B2
Application number	US-202217569109-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 5, 2022
Priority date	Jan 5, 2022
Publication date	Jul 15, 2025
Grant date	Jul 15, 2025

Abstract

Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing telemetry services for composed information handling systems. The method includes obtaining, by a system control processor manager, a telemetry request associated with a composed information handling system from a user; in response to obtaining the telemetry request: identifying a transaction identifier associated with the telemetry request; identifying telemetry intent associated with the telemetry request; aggregating telemetry data based on the telemetry intent and a telemetry data map entry associated with the transaction identifier to obtain aggregated telemetry data; and providing the aggregated telemetry data to the user.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for managing telemetry services for composed information handling systems, comprising:
obtaining, by a system control processor manager, a telemetry request associated with a composed information handling system from a user, wherein the telemetry request comprises:
a user identifier associated with the user, and
a transaction identifier associated with the composed information handling system, wherein a telemetry data map is associated with the transaction identifier and wherein the telemetry data map comprises a telemetry data map entry that maps at least one physical component to at least one logical component of the composed information handling system;
in response to obtaining the telemetry request:
identifying the transaction identifier associated with the telemetry request;
identifying telemetry intent associated with the telemetry request, wherein the telemetry intent specifies a desired outcome associated with a portion of the composed information handling system without specifying particular actions to be taken or data to be collected;
obtaining telemetry data based on identifying the transaction identifier and the telemetry intent;
aggregating the telemetry data based on the telemetry intent and the telemetry data map to obtain aggregated telemetry data; and

providing the aggregated telemetry data to the user via a connection between the system control processor manager and a device of the user, wherein the aggregated telemetry data satisfies the telemetry intent.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the telemetry data map entry comprises:
the transaction identifier;
hardware resource tags;
compute resource tags;
data collector identifiers associated with data collectors; and
telemetry policies.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the telemetry intent is associated with a portion of the hardware resource tags.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein aggregating telemetry data based on the telemetry intent comprises identifying a portion of the telemetry data associated with the hardware resource tags.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the aggregated telemetry data comprises the portion of the telemetry data.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
prior to obtaining the telemetry request:
obtaining a composition request for a composed information handling system;
in response to obtaining the composition request:
identifying at least one compute resource set having compute resources specified by the composition request;
identifying at least one hardware resource set having hardware resources specified by the composition request;
setting up telemetry services for the composed information handling system using an at least one control resource set; and
instantiating the composed information handling system using at least one control resource set, the at least one hardware resource set, and the at least one compute resource set.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein setting up the telemetry services for the composed information handling system comprises:
generating the transaction identifier associated with the composed information handling system;
generating hardware resource tags associated with the at least one hardware resource set;
generating compute resource tags associated with the at least one compute resource set;
instantiating data collectors associated with the composed information handling system;
identifying telemetry policies associated with the composed information handling system;
generating the telemetry data map entry that associates the transaction identifier, the hardware resource tags, the compute resource tags, the telemetry policies, and the data collectors; and
initiating performance of telemetry services based on the telemetry data map entry.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable program code, which when executed by a computer processor enables the computer processor to perform a method for managing telemetry services for composed information handling systems, the method comprising:
obtaining, by a system control processor manager, a telemetry request associated with a composed information handling system from a user, wherein the telemetry request comprises:
a user identifier associated with the user, and
a transaction identifier associated with the composed information handling system, wherein a telemetry data map is associated with the transaction identifier and wherein the telemetry data map comprises a telemetry data map entry that maps at least one physical component to at least one logical component of the composed information handling system;
in response to obtaining the telemetry request:
identifying the transaction identifier associated with the telemetry request;
identifying telemetry intent associated with the telemetry request, wherein the telemetry intent specifies a desired outcome associated with a portion of the composed information handling system without specifying particular actions to be taken or data to be collected;
obtaining telemetry data based on identifying the transaction identifier and the telemetry intent;
aggregating the telemetry data based on the telemetry intent and the telemetry data map to obtain aggregated telemetry data; and
providing the aggregated telemetry data to the user via a connection between the system control processor manager and a device of the user, wherein the aggregated telemetry data satisfies the telemetry intent.

9. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the telemetry data map entry comprises:
the transaction identifier;
hardware resource tags;
compute resource tags;
data collector identifiers associated with data collectors; and
telemetry policies.

10. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the telemetry intent is associated with a portion of the hardware resource tags.

11. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 10 , wherein aggregating telemetry data based on the telemetry intent comprises identifying a portion of the telemetry data associated with the hardware resource tags.

12. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the aggregated telemetry data comprises the portion of the telemetry data.

13. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the method further comprising:
prior to obtaining the telemetry request:
obtaining a composition request for a composed information handling system;
in response to obtaining the composition request:
identifying at least one compute resource set having compute resources specified by the composition request;
identifying at least one hardware resource set having hardware resources specified by the composition request;
setting up telemetry services for the composed information handling system using an at least one control resource set; and
instantiating the composed information handling system using at least one control resource set, the at least one hardware resource set, and the at least one compute resource set.

14. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 13 , wherein setting up the telemetry services for the composed information handling system comprises:
generating the transaction identifier associated with the composed information handling system;
generating hardware resource tags associated with the at least one hardware resource set;
generating compute resource tags associated with the at least one compute resource set;
instantiating data collectors associated with the composed information handling system;
identifying telemetry polici

Assignees

• Dell Products Lp

Inventors

• Harwood John S
• Jreij Elie Antoun
• Young Susan Elizabeth
• Henry Edward
• Lincourt Jr Robert Anthony
• Chawla Gaurav
• Farley Douglas L

Classifications

• H04L67/51

  Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services · CPC title

• H04L67/12

  specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks · CPC title

• G06F11/3006

  where the computing system is distributed, e.g. networked systems, clusters, multiprocessor systems (multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46; allocation of resources G06F9/50) · CPC title

• H04L43/04

  Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation · CPC title

• H04L43/08

  Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters · CPC title