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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 15, 1999
Neil Clair Berglund, Kasson, MN (US);
Ronald Leroy Billau, Rochester, MN (US);
David Lee Dosch, Rochester, MN (US);
Brian Gerard Holthaus, Oronoco, MN (US);
Thomas James Osten, Rochester, MN (US);
Frederick Joseph Ziecina, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An adapter node is provided for use in adapting internal system enclosure services to a system power control network to thereby provide remote power control, diagnostics, and logical-to-physical correlation information, through the system power control network. The adapter node is for use in one computer of a plurality of different types of computers, having a respective internal system enclosure services low-level communication path. The power control network has a plurality of nodes, one of the nodes being a control node. The adapter node includes a substrate having electrical contacts adapted to plug to a system bus in the one computer. The substrate further has at least one system enclosure services interface connection to connect to the internal system enclosure services low-level communication path in the one computer. The adapter node further has a system power control network interface connection for connecting to the system power control network. A processor of the adapter node is provided for coordinating communication with the system power control network and with internal devices on the internal system enclosure services low-level communications path. Power control, diagnostics, and logical-to-physical correlation information signals are communicated between the system power control system control node and the adapter node to provide system enclosure services support to the one computer of the plurality of different types of computers.