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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2008
Gerhard Nikolaus Buckler, Apex, NC (US);
Jeffery Michael Franke, Apex, NC (US);
Donald Eugene Johnson, Apex, NC (US);
Carl A. Morrell, Cary, NC (US);
David Robert Woodham, Raleigh, NC (US);
Gerhard Nikolaus Buckler, Apex, NC (US);
Jeffery Michael Franke, Apex, NC (US);
Donald Eugene Johnson, Apex, NC (US);
Carl A. Morrell, Cary, NC (US);
David Robert Woodham, Raleigh, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer program product is presented for recovering a server blade, in a multiple server blade computer, that is lost during a flash update operation on a service processor in the server blade. Because of the flash update failure, the lost server blade is unaware of its location on a management pathway, which in an exemplary form may be a midplane or a bus, which connects the server blade and a management module in a server blade chassis. The lost server blade puts a signal on the management pathway indicating that the flash failed. The signal is put on a special channel reserved for such messages. The management module receives the signal, and then determines which of the multiple server blades are lost due to the flash update failure.