Architecture for data center infrastructure monitoring

US9948521B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Equinix, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Vijaay Doraiswamy · Fremont, US
• Brian J. Lillie · Los Altos, US
• Parveen Kumar · Fremont, US
• Purvish Purohit · Sunnyvale, US
• Prabhakar Gundugola · San Jose, US
• Jaganathan Jeyapaul · San Jose, US
• Sriharsha Mukundappa Sathyavathi · Sunnyvale, US
• Swayambhu Raparti · Foster City, US
• Venkatachalam Rangasamy · San Jose, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 11, 2017
• Grant date: Apr 17, 2018
• Expiry date: Jan 11, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y04S40/00
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A central infrastructure monitoring system includes an asset configurator; and a plurality of data center infrastructure monitoring systems each associated with a respective data center of a plurality of geographically distributed data centers that include one or more physical infrastructure assets of a plurality of physical infrastructure assets for enabling system operation within the respective data center. The data center infrastructure monitoring systems are coupled to the central infrastructure monitoring system. The asset configurator is configured to define templates of standard attributes for the plurality of infrastructure assets based on information about the plurality of infrastructure assets of the plurality of data centers, generate infrastructure asset data that logically represents the plurality of physical infrastructure assets based on the defined templates, and associate, via the infrastructure asset data, the physical infrastructure assets within an infrastructure asset hierarchy indicating connections and interdependencies between the plurality of infrastructure assets.