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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsWillliam E. Atherton, Richard E. Harper, William J. Piazza
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Tracking the physical location of a server in a data center including detecting, through a one-wire link between a connector in a cabinet slot and a management module, insertion of the server into a cabinet slot, the server connected upon insertion to a one-wire link through a connector in the cabinet slot and determining, in dependence upon the one-wire link's multiplexer address code, a physical location of the server. The data center includes a plurality of cabinet slots, each cabinet slot having a connector, the data center also includes a presence-detection network, the presence-detection network comprising one-wire links among the cabinet slots and the management module, the one-wire links coupled between the connectors and the management module and multiplexed into the management module according to multiplexer address codes, each one-wire link associated with a separate multiplexer address code, each multiplexer address code associated with a separate physical location.
A method of tracking the physical location of a server in a data center, the data center comprising a management module, the data center further comprising a plurality of cabinet slots, each cabinet slot having a connector, the data center further comprising a presence-detection network, the presence-detection network comprising one-wire links among the cabinet slots and the management module, the one-wire links coupled between the connectors in the cabinet slots and the management module and multiplexed into the management module according to multiplexer address codes, each one-wire link associated with a separate multiplexer address code, each multiplexer address code associated with a separate physical location in the data center, the method comprising:
Apparatus for tracking the physical location of a server in a data center, the data center comprising a management module, the data center further comprising a plurality of cabinet slots, each cabinet slot having a connector, the data center further comprising a presence-detection network, the presence-detection network comprising one-wire links among the cabinet slots and the management module, the one-wire links coupled between the connectors in the cabinet slots and the management module and multiplexed into the management module according to multiplexer address codes, each one-wire link associated with a separate multiplexer address code, each multiplexer address code associated with a separate physical location in the data center, the apparatus comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions capable of:
A computer program product for tracking the physical location of a server in a data center, the data center comprising a management module, the data center further comprising a plurality of cabinet slots, each cabinet slot having a connector, the data center further comprising a presence-detection network, the presence-detection network comprising one-wire links among the cabinet slots and the management module, the one-wire links coupled between the connectors in the cabinet slots and the management module and multiplexed into the management module according to multiplexer address codes, each one-wire link associated with a separate multiplexer address code, each multiplexer address code associated with a separate physical location in the data center, the computer program product disposed in a computer readable, signal bearing medium, the computer program product comprising computer program instructions capable of:
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