Patent ID: 8965993
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. An entrusted management method for a plurality of rack systems, comprising: providing the rack systems, wherein each rack system respectively comprises an integrated management module (IMM) and a plurality of internal rack devices, and the IMMs respectively manage the internal rack devices through a network; distributing the rack systems into at least one rack group, and selecting one of the IMMs in each rack group to serve as a primary IMM; wherein each tack moup comprises more than one of the rack systems: the primary IMM being connected to other IMMs through the network, and performing a synchronous configuration procedure to back up a plurality of pieces of configuration information of the other IMMs in the rack group; and when an anomaly occurs in a specific IMM of the IMMs in the rack group or the specific IMM submits an entrustment request, the primary IMM managing, through the network, the internal rack devices originally managed by the specific IMM, wherein the primary IMM and the specific IMM are not in a same rack system; wherein the step of judging whether other IMMs are abnormal comprises: the primary IMM periodically sending a plurality of acknowledgement signals to the specific IMM, and receiving a response signal transferred by the specific IMM, and when the number of times that the primary IMM does not receive the response signal transferred by the specific IMM is greater than a threshold, the primary IMM judging that the anomaly has occurred in the specific IMM.