Management system for internet protocol address of baseboard management controller, management terminal, and management method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2018159942-A1
Application number	US-201615367113-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 1, 2016
Priority date	Dec 1, 2016
Publication date	Jun 7, 2018
Grant date	—

Abstract

A system to manage internet protocol address (IP) of baseboard management controller (BMC) includes switches, servers, and a management terminal. Each switch transmits to servers link layer discovery protocol in information packets, giving information of itself and a port of itself. Each server transmits obtained information of the switch and the port of the switch and a BMC IP of that server. The management terminal determines whether the BMC IP transmitted from each server is consistent with an assigning BMC IP corresponding to the port of the switch transmitted from the sever according to a relationship between each port of each switch, identification information of each server and assigning BMC IP of each server and displays the identification information of the server in the event that incorrect BMC IP is transmitted to enable a correction to be made. A method for managing BMC IP is also disclosed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A baseboard management controller internet protocol address management system comprising:
at least one switches; a plurality of servers, each server connected to a port of a switch, wherein all of the switches and all of the servers support link layer discovery protocol (LLDP), the at least one switches transmits LLDP packages to the servers connected to the switch, each LLDP package transmitted to the server comprises port information of a port of the switch connecting to the server and identification information of the switch based on LLDP; each server comprising:
a decrypting unit configured to decrypt the LLDP package to obtain the port information of the port of the switch connecting to the server and the identification information of the switch; and
a transmission unit configured to transmit obtained port information of the port of the switch, obtained identification information of the switch and a baseboard management controller internet protocol address (BMC IP) of the server; and
a management terminal comprising:
a storage unit storing a relationship between each port of each switch, identification information of each server and assigning BMC IP of each server; and
a determining unit configured to determine whether the BMC IP transmitted from each server is consistent with to the assigning BMC IP corresponding to the port of the switch transmitted from the sever.

2 . The baseboard management controller internet protocol address management system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the servers are positioned in a data center, the identification information of the server comprises a position of the server in the data center.

3 . The baseboard management controller internet protocol address management system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the management terminal further comprises a display unit, the display unit displays the identification information of the server which transmits the BMC IP being not consistent with to the assigning BMC IP corresponding to the port of the switch transmitted from the sever.

4 . The baseboard management controller internet protocol address management system as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the display unit further displays the assigning BMC IP of the server having incorrect BMC IP.

5 . The baseboard management controller internet protocol address management system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the baseboard management controller internet protocol address management system comprises a plurality of switches.

6 . The baseboard management controller internet protocol address management system as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the identification information of the switch comprises a number of the switch, the switches have different numbers, the port information comprises a plurality of the port of the switch, ports of a switch have different numbers.

7 . A baseboard management controller internet protocol address management terminal connecting to a plurality of servers comprising:
a storage unit storing a relationship between ports of switches, identification information of each server and assigning BMC IP of each server, each server connected to a port of a switch; and a determining unit configured to determine whether a BMC IP of the server transmitted from the server is consistent with to the assigning BMC IP corresponding to a port of a switch transmitted from the sever.

8 . The baseboard management controller internet protocol address management terminal as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the baseboard management controller internet protocol address management terminal further a display unit, the display unit displays the identification information of the server which transmits the BMC IP being not consistent with to the assigning BMC IP corresponding to the port of the switch transmitted from the sever.

9 . The baseboard management controller internet protocol address management terminal as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the display unit further displays the assigning BMC IP of the server having incorrect BMC IP.

10 . The baseboard management controller internet protocol address management terminal as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the identification information of the switch comprises a number of the switch, the switches have different numbers, the port information comprises a plurality of the port of the switch, ports of a switch have different numbers.

11 . A baseboard management controller internet protocol address management method comprising:
switches transmits LLDP packages to servers connected to switches, each LLDP packages transmitted to the server comprises port information of a port of the switch connecting to the server and identification information of the switch based on LLDP; decrypting the LLDP package to obtain the port information of the port of the switch connecting to the local server and the identification information of the switch; transmitting obtained port information of the port of the switch, obtained identification information of the switch and a BMC IP of local server to a management terminal; and determining whether the BMC IP transmitted from each server is consistent with to an assigning BMC IP corresponding to the port of the switch transmitted from the sever according to a relationship between each port of each switch, identification information of each server and assigning BMC IP of each server.

12 . The baseboard management controller internet protocol address management method as claimed in claim 11 , further comprising:
displaying the identification information of the server which transmits the BMC IP being not consistent with to the assigning BMC IP corresponding to the port of the switch transmitted from the sever.

13 . The baseboard management controller internet protocol address management method as claimed in claim 12 , further comprising:
displaying the assigning BMC IP of the server having incorrect BMC IP.

14 . The baseboard management controller internet protocol address management method as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the identification information of the server comprises a position of the server.

Assignees

• Hongfujin Prec Electronics Tianjin Co Ltd
• Hon Hai Prec Ind Co Ltd

Inventors

• Chen Po-Jung
• Jang Jiing-Shyang

Classifications

• H04L41/0813

  characterised by the conditions triggering a change of settings · CPC title

• H04L49/30

  Peripheral units, e.g. input or output ports · CPC title

• H04L41/0823

  characterised by the purposes of a change of settings, e.g. optimising configuration for enhancing reliability (for optimising operational conditions of wireless networks H04W24/02) · CPC title

• H04L67/16 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L61/2007

  Electricity · mapped topic