Proactively addressing fan or fan tray failures
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorSudharsan Dhamal Gopalarathnam
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Abstract
Fan or fan tray failures are currently handled within the scope of the information handling system that has suffered the failure. In such cases, the addressing such issues may be difficult or impossible to do without completely shutting down the device. In one or more embodiments, by announcing the failure to one or more protocols, which allows the handling of such a failure event at a topological level rather that purely at the device level, the impact to the device as well as to the overall traffic in the topology may be drastically mitigated.
Claims20
A method for handling a fan or fan tray failure in an information handling system (IHS), the method comprising:
- monitoring status of one or more fans or fan trays of the information handling system;
- and
- responsive to receiving a notification of a failure of a fan or fan tray failure of the information handling system:
- notifying one or more protocols of the information handling system of the failure to trigger alerting, via the one or more protocols, one or more information handling system communicatively coupled to the information handling system that has the failure to take one or more actions to adjust traffic to the information handling system with the failure;
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- sending one or more notifications to the one or more information handling system communicatively coupled to the information handling system with the failure to take one or more actions to adjust traffic to the information handling system with the failure.
An information handling system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- a plurality of fans elements comprising one or more fans, one or more fan trays, or both;
- and
- a chassis manager configured to cause steps to be performed comprising:
- monitoring status of one or more fans or fan trays of the information handling system;
- and
- responsive to receiving a notification of a failure of a fan or fan tray failure of the information handling system:
- notifying one or more protocols of the information handling system of the failure to trigger alerting, via the one or more protocols, one or more information handling system communicatively coupled to the information handling system that has the failure to take one or more actions to adjust traffic to the information handling system with the failure;
- and
- sending one or more notifications to the one or more information handling system communicatively coupled to the information handling system with the failure to take one or more actions to adjust traffic to the information handling system with the failure.
An information handling system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- a plurality of fans elements comprising one or more fans, one or more fan trays, or both;
- one or more temperature sensors;
- and
- a chassis manager configured to cause steps to be performed comprising:
- monitoring status of one or more fans or fan trays of the information handling system;
- monitoring temperature using at least one of the one or more temperature sensors;
- and
- responsive to receiving a notification of a failure of a fan or fan tray failure of the information handling system:
- notifying one or more protocols of the information handling system of the failure to trigger alerting, via the one or more protocols, one or more information handling system communicatively coupled to the information handling system that has the failure to take one or more actions to adjust traffic to the information handling system with the failure;
- and
- sending one or more notifications to the one or more information handling system communicatively coupled to the information handling system with the failure to take one or more actions to adjust traffic to the information handling system with the failure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.