US 10,313,301 B1Granted

Intellectual rack and IP addresses managing method thereof

AssigneeAic Inc.

InventorsWei-Cheng Lin, Po-Sheng Hsin, Cheng-Han Lin

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Abstract

An intellectual rack includes a rack management system, a rack management controller (RMC), a set of internal hardware lines, a plurality of server slots, and multiple servers respectively arranged in the server slots. The RMC is connected with each baseboard management controller (BMC) of each server through the set of internal hardware lines. The rack management system determines whether a server is replaced through the RMC and the set of internal hardwire lines, and confirms a target server slot of the replacing action when determining that one of the servers is replaced. Further, the rack management system assigns an IP address binding to the target server slot for the BMC of the newly-replaced server to replace an IP address currently used by the BMC of the newly-replaced server, so as to keep the binding effect among the target server slot, the newly-replaced server and the IP address.

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Dependent claims

An intellectual rack, comprising:

a rack management controller (RMC);
a rack management system, arranged to connect with the RMC;
a plurality of server slots;
a plurality of servers, respectively arranged in each of the server slots and respectively having a baseboard management controller (BMC);
and
a set of internal hardware lines, arranged to define positions of the plurality of server slots respectively, and arranged to connect the RMC with each of the servers arranged in each of the server slots;
wherein, the rack management system is configured to confirm one of the server slots that corresponds to a new server through the RMC and the set of internal hardware lines when one of the plurality of servers has been replaced by the new server, and the rack management system is configured to inquire an internet protocol (IP) address binding to the server slot that corresponds to the new server and assigns the IP address to the BMC of the new server to replace another IP address currently used by the BMC of the new server.

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