Proactive fault avoidance

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9830226-B2
Application number	US-201514750789-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 25, 2015
Priority date	Jun 25, 2015
Publication date	Nov 28, 2017
Grant date	Nov 28, 2017

Abstract

Systems and methods for proactive fault avoidance. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) includes: a processor and a Basic I/O System (BIOS) coupled to the processor, the BIOS having program instructions that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to: accumulate telemetry data received from one or more sensors over a period of time; determine, based upon the accumulated telemetry data, that the IHS has been subject to a given type of environmental or stress condition; and identify, based upon the given type of environmental or stress condition, a potential IHS fault before the fault occurs.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An Information Handling System (IHS), comprising:
a processor; and
a Basic I/O System (BIOS) coupled to the processor, the BIOS having program instructions that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to:
accumulate telemetry data received from one or more sensors;
based upon the accumulated telemetry data, determine that the IHS has been used in a given one of a plurality of different types of environments; and
identify, based upon the given type of environment, a potential IHS fault before the fault occurs.

2. The IHS of claim 1 , wherein the telemetry data includes impact data and the one or more sensors include an accelerometer.

3. The IHS of claim 1 , wherein the telemetry data includes temperature data and the one or more sensors include a temperature sensor.

4. The IHS of claim 1 , wherein the telemetry data includes power consumption data and the one or more sensors include an electrical voltage or current sensor.

5. The IHS of claim 1 , wherein the telemetry data includes humidity data and the one or more sensors include a humidity sensor.

6. The IHS of claim 1 , wherein the telemetry data includes air purity data and the one or more sensors include an air quality sensor.

7. The IHS of claim 1 , wherein the program instructions, upon execution, further cause the IHS to compare each piece of telemetry data to a corresponding threshold value, and to determine a number of times the corresponding threshold value is exceeded.

8. The IHS of claim 1 , wherein the given type of environment-indicates that the IHS is subject to a number of shock events, and wherein the potential fault is identified as hard drive fault.

9. The IHS of claim 1 , wherein the given type of environment indicates that the IHS is subject to a given temperature and voltage condition, and wherein the potential fault is identified as a battery fault.

Assignees

• Dell Products Lp

Inventors

• Teshome Abeye
• Herzi Dirie N

Classifications

• G06F11/3058

  Monitoring arrangements for monitoring environmental properties or parameters of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring of power, currents, temperature, humidity, position, vibrations (thermal management in cooling arrangements of a computing system G06F1/206) · CPC title

• G06F11/1417 Primary

  Boot up procedures · CPC title

• G06F11/3062

  where the monitored property is the power consumption (power management in a computing system G06F1/3203) · CPC title

• G06F11/008 Primary

  Reliability or availability analysis · CPC title

• G06F11/00

  Error detection; Error correction; Monitoring (error detection, correction or monitoring in information storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer G11B20/18; monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing G11B27/36; in static stores G11C29/00) · CPC title