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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2007
John K. Langgood, Cary, NC (US);
Thomas F. Lewis, Raleigh, NC (US);
Kevin M. Reinberg, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Kevin S. D. Vernon, Durham, NC (US);
John K. Langgood, Cary, NC (US);
Thomas F. Lewis, Raleigh, NC (US);
Kevin M. Reinberg, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Kevin S. D. Vernon, Durham, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Administering power supplies in a data center including, upon connection of a first power supply through a power line to a circuit breaker in the data center, querying, by a power supply communications device of the first power supply through the power line, a circuit breaker communications device of the circuit breaker for a circuit breaker identification; querying, by the power supply communications device of the first power supply, for a maximum current threshold for the circuit breaker; sending the circuit breaker identification and the maximum current threshold for the circuit breaker to a management module; and determining, by the management module in dependence upon the circuit breaker identification and the maximum current threshold for the circuit breaker, whether to power on a computing device powered by the first power supply including determining whether the circuit breaker is shared by another power supply.