Entrusted management method for a plurality of rack systems

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8965993-B2
Application number	US-201213396118-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 14, 2012
Priority date	Nov 28, 2011
Publication date	Feb 24, 2015
Grant date	Feb 24, 2015

Abstract

An entrusted management method for a plurality of rack systems is provided, which includes the following steps. The rack systems are provided, in which each rack system respectively includes an integrated management module (IMM) and a plurality of internal rack devices. The rack systems are distributed into at least one rack group, and one of a plurality of IMMs in each rack group is selected to serve as a primary IMM. The primary IMM is connected to other IMMs through a network, and performs a synchronous configuration procedure to back up a plurality of pieces of configuration information of the other IMMs in the rack group. When an anomaly occurs in a specific IMM or the specific IMM submits an entrustment request, the primary IMM manages, through the network, internal rack devices originally managed by the specific IMM.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An entrusted management method for a plurality of rack systems, comprising:
providing the rack systems, wherein each rack system respectively comprises an integrated management module (IMM) and a plurality of internal rack devices, and the IMMs respectively manage the internal rack devices through a network;
distributing the rack systems into at least one rack group, and selecting one of the IMMs in each rack group to serve as a primary IMM;
wherein each…

Assignees

• Wang Hao-Hao
• Inventec Corp

Inventors

• Wang Hao-Hao

Classifications

• G06F11/2048

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L41/28 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L12/6418

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F11/2097

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F11/2033

  Physics · mapped topic