Supervisory Control As Pattern for Integrated IT Management

Graupner, Sven ; Gmach, Daniel

HP Development Company

关键词: integrated management;    management automation;    control system;    supervisory control;    data center energy efficiency;   

RP-ID  :  HPL-2011-244

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: HP Labs

【 摘 要 】

Saving energy in large data centers has become a focus of research and development. For its realization, IT and facility control systems must be connected and coordinate their activities. Building such an integrated management system that operates automatically and reliably is a challenging task. The paper describes such a system that has been built in the HPLabs Palo Alto research data center. We discuss a particular aspect of such a system: how the integration logic of the various management and control systems can be designed more systematically, referring to a theoretic framework of supervisory control that had been developed for industrial automation in the late 1990's. We adopt the framework for constructing a set of coordinated controllers that are performing a set of desired management tasks.