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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2005
Neelam Chandwani, Portland, OR (US);
Udayan Mukherjee, Portland, OR (US);
Chetan Hiremath, Portland, OR (US);
Rakesh Dodeja, Portland, OR (US);
Neelam Chandwani, Portland, OR (US);
Udayan Mukherjee, Portland, OR (US);
Chetan Hiremath, Portland, OR (US);
Rakesh Dodeja, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A hardware management module is enabled to perform hardware management for a modular platform system that includes a plurality of modular platform shelves coupled via one or more communication links in a network. Hardware management to include monitoring board interfaces resident on one or more backplanes within the plurality of modular platform shelves, detecting when a board is received and coupled to a board interface and performing one or more hardware management functions to include obtaining field replaceable unit information from the detected board.