System board for a computer system, computer system having such a system board and method for out-of-band monitoring of a computer system

摘要

System board for a computer system, a computer system having such a system board and a method for out-of-band monitoring of a computer system are described. A system board 1 for a computer system having a management unit 2 for collecting status information from system components of the computer system, a network interface 3, and a communication unit 4 set up separately from the management unit, connected to the network interface and containing a piece of software 5 for communication via network. The management unit is set up to transfer collected status information (e.g. temperature, fan speed, voltage readings or error or status codes) from system components of the computer system to the software within the communication unit. The software is set up within the communication unit exclusively to incorporate the collected status information into a defined communication protocol 6 for communication via the network interface within a network to external management service 8, 9. The software has a dedicated function to incorporate the status information into a communication protocol, and possibly perform protocol conversion. The communication protocol may be Message Queue Telemetry Transport, MQTT. The arrangement provides a simple, low maintenance, inexpensive management software for out-of-band monitoring.