CPC H04L 41/0803 (2013.01) [H04L 43/0805 (2013.01); H04L 43/16 (2013.01)] | 18 Claims |
1. A baseboard management controller BMC-based switch monitoring method, comprising following steps:
virtualizing a multi-core baseboard management controller (BMC) into a plurality of logical computers such that each core operates separately;
starting a switch;
in response to start of the switch, migrating all functions of the switch into a first core of the multi-core BMC for start, and monitoring other cores of the multi-core BMC based on a second core of the multi-core BMC;
detecting a new service received by the switch;
determining, in response to the detection of the new service, that the new service is a firmware upgrade service; and
allocating the new service to the second core in the multi-core BMC for operation, in response to the new service being the firmware upgrade service.
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