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US 11,113,166 B2Granted
Monitoring system and method with baseboard management controller
AssigneeWiwynn Corporation
InventorsBing-Han Yang, Po-Shen Kuo
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Abstract
A monitoring system includes a baseboard management controller (BMC) disposed on a same baseboard as a system under test; an administrator device electrically connected to the BMC; and a software test fixture stored in the BMC, the software test fixture generating an electrical signal, which is transferred to a corresponding target device of the system under test to access a register of the corresponding target device.
Claims17
A monitoring system, comprising:
- a baseboard management controller (BMC) disposed on a same baseboard as a system under test including a plurality of target devices;
- an administrator device electrically connected to the BMC;
- a software test fixture stored in the BMC, the software test fixture including a plurality of in-target probe (ITP) firmware programs each generating an electrical signal, which is transferred to a corresponding target device of the system under test to access a register of the corresponding target device;
- and
- a plurality of bridge integrated circuits each being connected between the BMC and the corresponding target device, each bridge integrated circuit having an associated Internet Protocol (IP) address used to select the corresponding target device;
- wherein the administrator device updates firmware of the system under test according to a monitoring result of the system under test.
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A monitoring method, comprising:
- providing a software test fixture including a plurality of in-target probe (ITP) firmware programs each being associated with a corresponding target device of a plurality of target devices of a system under test, the software test fixture being stored in a baseboard management controller (BMC);
- opening a user interface of an administrator device and selecting the corresponding target device;
- electrically connecting the administrator device to the BMC;
- activating the software test fixture;
- accessing a register of the corresponding target device through the user interface;
- and
- the administrator device updating firmware of the system under test according to a monitoring result of the system under test;
- wherein the administrator device selects the corresponding target device according to an Internet Protocol (IP) address of an associated bridge integrated circuit of a plurality of bridge integrated circuits.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.