Server information handling system wireless management and topology
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsRobert Barrett, Saurav Shrestha
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Abstract
A datacenter server information handling system topology is determined from Bluetooth Low Energy beacon signals communicated with a mobile information handling system that provides multiple ranges temporally related as the mobile information handling system moves through the datacenter. Server information handling system positions are determined and mapped relative to each other and also relative to position information detected in the datacenter, such as with a camera or accelerometer disposed in the mobile information handling system.
Claims20
A mobile information handling system comprising:
- a portable housing;
- a processor disposed in the portable housing and operable to execute instructions to process information;
- a memory disposed in the portable housing and interfaced with the processor, the memory operable to store the information;
- a display disposed in the portable housing and interfaced with the processor and memory, the display operable to present the information as visual images;
- a wireless networking interface card interfaced with the processor and operable to determine a range to an external transmitter sending a wireless signal having a predetermined protocol;
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- a topology module stored in the memory and having instructions operable to execute on the processor, the topology module operable to track plural ranges to each of plural external transmitters and present a map of the relative positions of the plural external transmitters to each other on the display, the plural external transmitters coupled to plural server information handling systems, the map depicting a topology of the server information handling systems in a data center.
A method for mapping plural server information handling systems in a datacenter, the method comprising:
- communicating wireless personal area network signals between each of the plural server information handling systems and one or more mobile information handling systems to detect plural ranges for each of the plural server information handling systems at plural times as the one or more mobile information handling system moves through the datacenter;
- relating the plural ranges temporally to map relative positions of the plural server information handling systems to each other;
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- presenting the map at a display of the one or more mobile information handling systems.
A system for mapping a data center server information handling system topology, the system comprising:
- a mobile information handling system having a wireless personal area network device operable to communicate wireless personal area network signals;
- plural server information handling systems, each server information handling system having a wireless personal area network device operable to communicate wireless personal area network signals;
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- a topology module operable to retrieve plural ranges determined from the wireless personal area network communications at plural times for plural of the server information handling systems to map the relative positions of the server information handling systems to each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.