In-flight detection of server telemetry report drift

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2023026041-A1
Application number	US-202117443082-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 20, 2021
Priority date	Jul 20, 2021
Publication date	Jan 26, 2023
Grant date	—

Abstract

A first information handling system may receive a telemetry metric report from a client information handling system. The first information handling system may determine that one or more characteristics of the telemetry metric report do not match one or more predetermined telemetry metric report characteristics. The first information handling system may perform one or more corrective actions based, at least in part, on the determination that the one or more characteristics of the telemetry metric report do not match one or more predetermined telemetry metric report characteristics.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method, comprising:
receiving, by a first information handling system, a telemetry metric report from a client information handling system; determining, by the first information handling system, that one or more characteristics of the telemetry metric report do not match one or more predetermined telemetry metric report characteristics; and performing, by the first information handling system, one or more corrective actions based, at least in part, on the determination that the one or more characteristics of the telemetry metric report do not match one or more predetermined telemetry metric report characteristics.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more corrective actions comprise at least one of:
notifying a user of at least one of the first information handling system or the client information handling system that the one or more characteristics of the telemetry metric report do not match one or more predetermined telemetry metric report characteristics; or instructing the client information handling system to implement telemetry metric report characteristics that match the one or more predetermined telemetry metric report characteristics.

3 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
transmitting, by the first information handling system to the client information handling system, a telemetry metric report definition identifying the one or more predetermined telemetry metric report characteristics; and storing, by the first information handling system, the transmitted telemetry metric report definition.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining, by the first information handling system, that one or more characteristics of the telemetry metric report do not match one or more predetermined telemetry metric report characteristics comprises comparing a received telemetry metric format indicator of the received telemetry report representing the one or more characteristics of the telemetry metric report with a stored telemetry metric format indicator representing the one or more predetermined telemetry metric report characteristics.

5 . The method of claim 4 , wherein determining, by the first information handling system, that one or more characteristics of the telemetry metric report do not match one or more predetermined telemetry metric report characteristics further comprises selecting a stored telemetry metric format indicator representing the one or more predetermined telemetry metric report characteristics for comparison based, at least in part, on a firmware version indicator of the received telemetry metric report indicating a firmware version of the client information handling system.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining, by the first information handling system, that one or more characteristics of the telemetry metric report do not match one or more predetermined telemetry metric report characteristics comprises determining the one or more predetermined telemetry metric report characteristics based, at least in part, on one or more integral metric report definitions of a metric report definition digest stored by the first information handling system.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving the telemetry metric report comprises receiving a portion of a telemetry metric data stream.

8 . A first information handling system, comprising:
a processor; and a memory, wherein the processor is configured to perform steps comprising:
receiving, by the first information handling system, a telemetry metric report from a client information handling system;
determining, by the first information handling system, that one or more characteristics of the telemetry metric report do not match one or more predetermined telemetry metric report characteristics; and
performing, by the first information handling system, one or more corrective actions based, at least in part, on the determination that the one or more characteristics of the telemetry metric report do not match one or more predetermined telemetry metric report characteristics.

9 . The information handling system of claim 8 , wherein the one or more corrective actions comprise at least one of:
notifying a user of at least one of the first information handling system or the client information handling system that the one or more characteristics of the telemetry metric report do not match one or more predetermined telemetry metric report characteristics; or instructing the client information handling system to implement telemetry metric report characteristics that match the one or more predetermined telemetry metric report characteristics.

10 . The information handling system of claim 8 , wherein the processor is further configured to perform steps further comprising:
transmitting, by the first information handling system to the client information handling system, a telemetry metric report definition identifying the one or more predetermined telemetry metric report characteristics; and storing, by the first information handling system, the transmitted telemetry metric report definition.

11 . The information handling system of claim 8 , wherein determining, by the first information handling system, that one or more characteristics of the telemetry metric report do not match one or more predetermined telemetry metric report characteristics comprises comparing a received telemetry metric format indicator representing the one or more characteristics of the telemetry metric report with a stored telemetry metric format indicator representing the one or more predetermined telemetry metric report characteristics.

12 . The information handling system of claim 11 , wherein determining, by the first information handling system, that one or more characteristics of the telemetry metric report do not match one or more predetermined telemetry metric report characteristics further comprises selecting a stored telemetry metric format indicator representing the one or more predetermined telemetry metric report characteristics for comparison based, at least in part, on a firmware version indicator of the received telemetry metric report indicating a firmware version of the client information handling system.

13 . The information handling system of claim 8 , wherein determining, by the first information handling system, that one or more characteristics of the telemetry metric report do not match one or more predetermined telemetry metric report characteristics comprises determining the one or more predetermined telemetry metric report characteristics based, at least in part, on one or more integral metric report definitions of a metric report definition digest stored by the first information handling system.

14 . The information handling system of claim 8 , wherein receiving the telemetry metric report comprises receiving a portion of a telemetry metric data stream.

15 . A method, comprising:
generating, by a client information handling system, a telemetry metric report for a first information handling system based, at least in part, on telemetry metric data collected by the client information handling system; transmitting, by the client information handling system, the telemetry metric report to the first information handling system; receiving, by the client information handling system from the first information handling system, one or more corrective action instructions for adjusting one or more telemetry metric report settings, wherein the one or more telemetry metric report characteristics are based, at least in part, on the one or more telemetry metric report settings; and implement

Assignees

• Dell Products Lp

Inventors

• Jose Cyril
• Naga Vijayasimha Reddy
• Brown Michael Emery

Classifications

• G06F11/0775 Primary

  Content or structure details of the error report, e.g. specific table structure, specific error fields · CPC title

• G06F11/0787

  Storage of error reports, e.g. persistent data storage, storage using memory protection · CPC title

• G06F8/71 Primary

  Version control (security arrangements therefor G06F21/57); Configuration management · CPC title

• G06F11/0778

  Dumping, i.e. gathering error/state information after a fault for later diagnosis · CPC title

• G06F16/907

  Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually · CPC title