DCF-assisted early warning system for edge devices
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsPankaj Pande, Stephen J. Todd
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Abstract
One example method includes monitoring confidence scores received from an edge entity in an edge environment, and the edge entity comprises hardware and/or software, comparing a change in the confidence scores with a threshold permissible confidence score change, when a magnitude of the change is above a threshold permissible change, identifying the edge entity, or a system/device monitored by the edge entity, as a possibly malfunctioning entity, identifying a corrective action for the edge entity, and implementing, and/or causing implementation of, the corrective action.
Claims18
A method for detecting and resolving hardware and/or software failures in an edge device, comprising:
- using an edge entity, that comprises hardware and/or software, to monitor aspects of physical attributes of an operating environment and/or aspects of operations performed by physical systems in the operating environment;
- monitoring confidence scores received from the edge entity concerning data collected by the edge entity regarding the aspects of the physical attributes of an operating environment and/or the aspects of the operations performed by the physical systems in the operating environment, the confidence scores having been generated by the edge entity based at least in part on a hardware and/or software configuration of the edge entity;
- comparing a change in the confidence scores with a threshold permissible confidence score change;
- when a magnitude of the change is above a threshold permissible change, identifying the edge entity, or a system/device monitored by the edge entity, as a possibly malfunctioning entity;
- identifying a corrective action for the edge entity;
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- implementing, and/or causing implementation of, the corrective action, and the corrective action comprises repairing or replacing the hardware and/or software of the edge entity.
A non-transitory storage medium having stored therein instructions that are executable by one or more hardware processors to perform:
- a method for detecting and resolving hardware and/or software failures in an edge device, the method comprising operations including:
- using an edge entity, that comprises hardware and/or software, to monitor aspects of physical attributes of an operating environment and/or aspects of operations performed by physical systems in the operating environment;
- monitoring confidence scores received from the edge entity concerning data collected by the edge entity regarding the aspects of the physical attributes of an operating environment and/or the aspects of the operations performed by the physical systems in the operating environment, the confidence scores having been generated by the edge entity based at least in part on a hardware and/or software configuration of the edge entity;
- comparing a change in the confidence scores with a threshold permissible confidence score change;
- when a magnitude of the change is above a threshold permissible change, identifying the edge entity, or a system/device monitored by the edge entity, as a possibly malfunctioning entity;
- identifying a corrective action for the edge entity;
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- implementing, and/or causing implementation of, the corrective action, and the corrective action comprises repairing or replacing the hardware and/or software of the edge entity.
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