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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2008
Filed:
May. 23, 2005
Chih-yi Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Guohua Xiong, San Jose, CA (US);
Muthukumar Ratty, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chih-Yi Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Guohua Xiong, San Jose, CA (US);
Muthukumar Ratty, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Thermal conditions within a computer unit are monitored. A system-level temperature sensor responds to intake cooling air. A subsystem-level temperature sensor responds to the temperature of a subsystem-level component, preferably a motherboard or a backplane. When the temperature sensed by of the system-level temperature sensor falls outside of a critical limit, it is determined whether the temperature sensed by the subsystem-level temperature sensor generally correlates with the temperature sensed by the system-level temperature sensor. If there is no correlation, the operation of the computer unit is continued.