Automation of Data Consumption by Pluggable Module Software

Abstract

Servers are required to monitor the health of the various I/O cards connected to it to alert the required personnel to service these cards. The Data Collection Unit (DCU) is responsible for detecting the I/O cards, sending their inventory as well as monitoring their health. Currently, the keys required to detect these I/O cards are manually coded into the source code. Such a task is highly laborious and time-consuming. To eliminate this manual work, a Software Pluggable Module was devised which would read the I/O card-related information from the I/O component list. This software design aims at using Data Science and OOPS concepts to automate certain tasks on server systems. The proposed methodology is implemented on a Linux system. The software design is modular in nature and extensible to accommodate future requirements. Such an automation framework can be used to track information maintained in Excel Spreadsheets and access them using an Application Programming Interface (API).