Patent ID: 9128688
Filing Date: 2015-09-08
Classification: G06F,H04L,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method for managing a device comprising: determining a power supply policy of each single board in the device according to a preset power management rule; performing power management on each single board according to the power supply policy; wherein the device is one of a first device and a second device working in a Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) redundancy backup mode; the power supply policy comprises: when the first device is a master device and the second device is a standby device, power supplies of part or all of chips of each single board of the standby device are turned off to reduce power consumption in a time period; when the master device is in abnormal during this time period, the power supplies turned off in the standby device are turned on, and the master device and the standby device are switched; when the first device and the second device belong to two VRRP groups which backup each other, and when a bandwidth of service traffic of the device is lower than a threshold, turning off power supplies of chips on part or all of single boards of the device.