SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING SERVER RACK WEIGHT

A system includes a plurality of servers in a server rack and a plurality of baseboard management controllers (BMCs), each associated with a respective server from the plurality of servers. The system further includes a rack management controller (RMC). A first BMC of a first server determines compo...

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Main Authors YEN, CHIN TSAI, CHOU, KAI PEI, SHIH, CHING CHIH
Format Patent
LanguageChinese
English
Published 11.10.2016
Subjects
CALCULATING
CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
ELECTRICITY
MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS
PHYSICS
PRINTED CIRCUITS
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Summary:A system includes a plurality of servers in a server rack and a plurality of baseboard management controllers (BMCs), each associated with a respective server from the plurality of servers. The system further includes a rack management controller (RMC). A first BMC of a first server determines component types of hardware components in the first server, determines a quantity of each of the component types in the first server, determines a first weight information of the first server based on the component types and the quantity of each of the component types, and sends to the RMC the first weight information. The RMC determines a weight of other components in the server rack, and calculates a loaded rack weight of the server rack based on the first weight information and the weight of other components.
Bibliography:Application Number: TW20154126414