公开(公告)号：US20110258302A1

公开(公告)日：2011-10-20

申请号：US12763350

申请日：2010-04-20

申请人： David Alan Cole ,  James Ward Goddard ,  Christopher Young

发明人： David Alan Cole ,  James Ward Goddard ,  Christopher Young

IPC分类号： G06F15/173 ,  G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F11/006

摘要： A system and method for uniquely identifying computer and support infrastructure equipment in a rack and to determine the physical location of the equipment within the rack. In one embodiment, a set of communication ports is installed in the rack, with each communication port representing a physical rack location unit. The equipment is queried via the equipment's communication port, which is coupled to one of the communication ports in the rack. Equipment which does not support identification through some protocol has its identification information stored in an intelligent device which can be queried through the same set of communication ports. A management module collects the equipment information and location and aggregates the information for the entire rack. This information can then be queried by a remotely over the network.

摘要翻译： 一种用于唯一地识别机架中的计算机和支持基础设施设备并确定机架内的设备的物理位置的系统和方法。 在一个实施例中，一组通信端口安装在机架中，每个通信端口表示物理机架位置单元。 设备通过设备的通信端口进行查询，该通信端口耦合到机架中的一个通信端口。 通过某种协议不支持识别的设备，其识别信息存储在智能设备中，可通过同一组通信端口进行查询。 管理模块收集设备信息和位置，并整合整个机架的信息。 然后可以通过网络远程查询该信息。