Malfunctioning system identification mechanism
AssigneeNetApp, Inc.
InventorsCharles Randall, Michael Keith Nunez
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Abstract
A management system is described. The management system includes an interface coupled to a plurality of infrastructure appliances and one or more processors to monitor each of the plurality of infrastructure appliances, detect a malfunction at a first of the infrastructure appliances, and transmit a display message to one or more of the plurality of infrastructure appliances that are adjacent to the first infrastructure appliance, wherein a display message indicates one or more activity light indicators to be activated at an adjacent infrastructure appliance.
Claims19
A management system, comprising:
- an interface coupled to a plurality of infrastructure appliances;
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- one or more processors to monitor each of the plurality of infrastructure appliances in a plurality of data center racks, detect a malfunction at a first infrastructure appliance in a first data center rack having a first plurality of activity light indicators, access a table to determine infrastructure appliances adjacent to the first infrastructure appliance, transmit a first display message to a second infrastructure appliance having a second plurality of activity light indicators in a second data center rack indicated in the table as being adjacent to the first infrastructure appliance and transmit a second display message to a third infrastructure appliance in the second data center rack having a third plurality of activity light indicators, wherein the first display message indicates a first shape to be displayed by the second plurality of activity light indicators to identify the first infrastructure appliance and the second display message indicates a second shape to be displayed by the third plurality of activity light indicators to identify the first infrastructure appliance.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- monitor each of a plurality of infrastructure appliances in a plurality of data center racks;
- detect a malfunction at a first infrastructure appliance in a first data center rack having a first plurality of activity light indicators;
- access a table to determine infrastructure appliances adjacent to the first infrastructure appliance;
- transmit a first display message to a second infrastructure appliance having a second plurality of activity light indicators in a second data center rack indicated in the table as being adjacent to the first infrastructure appliance;
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- transmit a second display message to a third infrastructure appliance in the second data center rack having a third plurality of activity light indicators, wherein the first display message indicates a first shape to be displayed by the second plurality of activity light indicators to identify the first infrastructure appliance and the second display message indicates a second shape to be displayed by the third plurality of activity light indicators to identify the first infrastructure appliance.
A method comprising:
- monitoring each of a plurality of infrastructure appliances in a plurality of data center racks;
- detecting a malfunction at a first infrastructure appliance in a first data center rack having a first plurality of activity light indicators;
- accessing a table to determine infrastructure appliances adjacent to the first infrastructure appliance;
- transmitting a first display message to a second infrastructure appliance having a second plurality of activity light indicators in a second data center rack indicated in the table as being adjacent to the first infrastructure appliance;
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- transmitting a second display message to a third infrastructure appliance in the second data center rack having a third plurality of activity light indicators, wherein the first display message indicates a first shape to be displayed by the second plurality of activity light indicators to identify the first infrastructure appliance and the second display message indicates a second shape to be displayed by the third plurality of activity light indicators to identify the first infrastructure appliance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.