Method and apparatus for debugging device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2022012165-A1
Application number	US-202117484938-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 24, 2021
Priority date	Dec 20, 2019
Publication date	Jan 13, 2022
Grant date	—

Abstract

Disclosed are a method and apparatus for debugging a device. A particular embodiment of the method comprises: acquiring target running state information of a target device; constructing a running configuration template and a log collection template according to the target running state information; sending the running configuration template and the log collection template to an edge computing device, and receiving target log information sent by the edge computing device, so as to determine actual running state information; when the actual running state information is different from the target running state information, computing state difference information; and finally, modifying the running configuration template by means of the state difference information value information in order to obtain an updated running configuration template, and sending the updated running configuration template to the edge computing device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method for debugging a device, comprising:
acquiring target running status information of a target device, the target running status information being used to represent a target running status of the target device when running normally; constructing a running configuration template and a log collection template according to the target running status information, wherein the running configuration template is used to specify at least one piece of running configuration information of the target device when running in the target running status, the log collection template is used to instruct an edge computing device to collect at least one piece of target log information of the target device when running according to the running configuration information, and the edge computing device is electrically connected with the target device; sending the running configuration template and the log collection template to the edge computing device, and receiving target log information sent by the edge computing device; determining actual running status information of the target device through the target log information; determining, in response to the actual running status information being different from the target running status information, status difference value information between the actual running status information and the target running status information; and modifying the running configuration template through the status difference value information to obtain an updated running configuration template, and sending the updated running configuration template to the edge computing device, to cause the edge computing device to debug the target device.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the acquiring target running status information of a target device comprises:
acquiring peak value information of the target device, the peak value information comprising at least one of: a processor frequency peak value, a memory usage peak value, a network bandwidth peak value, or a failure-free time peak value; and determining target running status information corresponding to the peak value information according to a set condition, wherein the set condition comprises at least one of a set threshold value or a target task, the set threshold value is used to represent a proportional relationship between the peak value information and the target running status information, and the target running status information comprises at least one piece of sub-target running status information.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the constructing a running configuration template and a log collection template according to the target running status information comprises:
acquiring device information of the target device, the device information comprising at least one of hardware information or software information; matching the device information with the target running status information, to determine the at least one piece of running configuration information of the target device; and encapsulating the at least one piece of running configuration information into the running configuration template.

4 . The method according to claim 3 , wherein the constructing a running configuration template and a log collection template according to the target running status information comprises:
determining, for running configuration information in the at least one piece of running configuration information, log information corresponding to the running configuration information; and encapsulating at least one piece of log information corresponding to the at least one piece of running configuration information into the log collection template.

5 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the target log information comprises at least one piece of log information, and
the determining actual running status information of the target device through the target log information comprises:
querying, for log information in the at least one piece of log information in the target log information, sub-running status information corresponding to the log information; and
combining at least one piece of sub-running status information corresponding to the at least one piece of log information to constitute the actual running status information of the target device.

6 . A method for debugging a device, comprising:
receiving a running configuration template and a log collection template sent by a cloud, wherein the running configuration template is used to specify at least one piece of running configuration information of target device when running in a target running status, and the log collection template is used to instruct an edge computing device to collect at least one piece of target log information of the target device when running according to the running configuration information; generating a first control instruction according to running configuration information in the running configuration template, and sending the first control instruction to the target device; sending, in response to detecting target log information belonging to the target device and corresponding to the first control instruction, the target log information to the cloud; and receiving an updated running configuration template sent by the cloud, generating a second control instruction according to running configuration information in the updated running configuration template, and sending the second control instruction to the target device.

7 . The method according to claim 6 , wherein the generating a first control instruction according to running configuration information in the running configuration template comprises:
analyzing the at least one piece of running configuration information from the running configuration template; and generating, for running configuration information in the at least one piece of running configuration information, a first control sub-instruction corresponding to the running configuration information.

8 . The method according to claim 6 , further comprising:
monitoring, in response to sending the first control instruction to the target device, device log information of the target device; and marking, in response to detecting the device log information, at least one piece of log information being in the device log information and corresponding to the running configuration information as the target log information corresponding to the first control instruction.

9 . An electronic device, comprising:
one or more processors; and a storage device, configured to store one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform an operation for processing information, comprising: acquiring target running status information of a target device, the target running status information being used to represent a target running status of the target device when running normally; constructing a running configuration template and a log collection template according to the target running status information, wherein the running configuration template is used to specify at least one piece of running configuration information of the target device when running in the target running status, the log collection template is used to instruct an edge computing device to collect at least one piece of target log information of the target device when running according to the running configuration information, and the edge computing device is electrically connected with the target device; sending the running configuration template and the log collection template to the edge computing device, and receiving target log information sent by the edge com

Assignees

• Beijing Baidu Netcom Sci & Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Chen Sheng
• Lu Danfeng
• Zhao Xin

Classifications

• G06F11/3476 Primary

  Data logging (G06F11/14, G06F11/2205 take precedence) · CPC title

• G06F11/3409

  for performance assessment · CPC title

• G06F11/3051

  Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the configuration of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring the presence of processing resources, peripherals, I/O links, software programs (verification or detection of system hardware configuration G06F11/2247) · CPC title

• G06F11/079

  Root cause analysis, i.e. error or fault diagnosis (in a hardware test environment G06F11/22; in a software test environment G06F11/36) · 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