Introductions:
After of a long vacations such as holidays, calamities (storm,floods or etc), we're always caught by surprise about the drained batteries ,damaged UPS ,hanged servers , overheated power supplies and worst the total malfunctions since the air-conditioning system had been off. The reason was just that we can't anticipate these occurrence or technical troubles in the 24/7 running Data Center-everybody is on leave and nobody is to blame.Yet,the most things we are worried so much are the cost of purchasing the replacements for the said equipments ,and that mishap requires a lot of budget requisitions.
So your author decided to design a complete robust yet low cost Data Center Monitoring System .It will diagnose every client/s and server/s net activity both its hardware and software, the AC connections (power supplies and the DC generator) .It will include monitoring variable parameters such as : smoke,humidity ,temperature and noise inside the server room. The monitoring report would be available via GPRS ,GSM and web, and there is a restrictions to interact the said system.
The second option is whether to use a single board PC(ARM9) or a micro controller (PIC +ENC28j60) .So we needed to weigh the following factors: cost,capability and efficiency , and the choice went to a single embedded PC which is the Arm9 -because of the technology competitions nowadays its price is almost equal to a micro controller yet the capacity had an amazing difference.
So before the author would post in the design of monitoring system , let us first discuss the detail on the Arm 9 board set-up-and here is the detail .
Requirements:
Hardware:
ARM9 Evaluation Kit (Samsung chip
-533-633Mhz
Serial Cable
ARM9 JTAG
LCD2VGA
Sooftwares:
Linux OS (Ubunto ,Fedora ,CentOS)
minicom
ztelnet
Gambas2
Objectives:
1) Load a bootloader to a target Arm9 board
2) Load a kernel to a a target Arm9 board
3) Load applications to the Arm9 target board
Methodology:
1) Please do the basic physical setup of ARM9 evaluation board
a) serial cable
b) LAN RJ45
2) Download the required software for accessing the board
a)minicom for serial/com access
b) ztelnet for telnet setup
3) Select "b" in the menu to boot the board in RAM
4) Configure the "eth0" IP setting similar to your LAN
root@FriendlyArm/ cd /etc/
root@FriendlyArm/ cp eth0-setting eth0-setting.bak
root@FriendlyArm/ vi etho-setting
Detail(1) minicom serial interface for Linux
Detail(2) Configuring the minicom settings
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Detail(4) booting Arm9 via NAND flash  |
Detail(5) Setting the board's IP address
Detail(6)Browsing the Arm9 default page
Remarks:
Its another refreshing ideas to level up embedded applications,especially when times suggest a better competitions between a traditional micro-controller/microprocessor and a single board cpu , its cost, efficiency,capability and rigidity.
Conclusions:
