Unused resource recognition in real time for provisioning and management of fabric-backplane enterprise servers

Real time provisioning and management of fabric-backplane enterprise servers includes monitoring system status and configuration, displaying monitoring results, accepting user commands, and providing hardware and software management and configuration commands to the system. In one embodiment, an eve...

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Main Authors Finkelstein, Yuri, Ingrao, Fabio Onofrio, Nicolaou, Cosmos, Saraiya, Nakul Pratap, Hanson, Geoffrey H, Griffen, Jeffrey Lloyd
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 27.03.2012
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Summary:Real time provisioning and management of fabric-backplane enterprise servers includes monitoring system status and configuration, displaying monitoring results, accepting user commands, and providing hardware and software management and configuration commands to the system. In one embodiment, an event is generated when a pluggable module is inserted into the system. In response to the event, the availability of the pluggable module is displayed to a system operator, and the operator enters a command to provision a server that includes the pluggable module. The server provisioning command is processed, resulting in a hardware configuration command being issued to the system, and an event indicating a status associated with processing the command is returned. The recognition of the inserted module, the display to the operator, and the processing of the server provisioning command occur in real time.