Thermal management of a distributed system

A non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations for managing operation of data processing systems positioned in a rack, the operations comprising:

• identifying, by a management controller of a data processing system of the data processing systems, an occurrence of a thermal management event;
• based on the occurrence:
• obtaining, by the management controller, first operation data for the data processing system;
• obtaining, by the management controller, operating points for a cooling system of a rear door heat exchanger and a cooling system of the data processing system;
• setting, by the management controller and using the operating points, operation of the cooling system of the rear door heat exchanger and operation of the cooling system of the data processing system to obtain an updated rack;
• and
• providing computer implemented services using the updated rack.

A management controller of a data processing system of a rack adapted to perform a method for managing operation of data processing systems positioned in the rack, the method comprising:

• identifying, by the management controller of the data processing system of the data processing systems, an occurrence of a thermal management event;
• based on the occurrence:
• obtaining, by the management controller, first operation data for the data processing system;
• obtaining, by the management controller, operating points for a cooling system of a rear door heat exchanger and a cooling system of the data processing system;
• setting, by the management controller and using the operating points, operation of the cooling system of the rear door heat exchanger and operation of the cooling system of the data processing system to obtain an updated rack;
• and
• providing computer implemented services using the updated rack.