Method and apparatus for communicating information from an operating system based environment of a server blade to the chassis management module
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsGundrala D. Goud, Vincent J. Zimmer
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Abstract
A method for managing information from an operating system based environment includes determining whether the information is to be communicated to a chassis management module. The information is transmitted to a service processor upon determining that the information is to be communicated with the chassis management module.
Claims22
A method for communicating information from an operating system based blade server system environment, comprising:
- transmitting the information to an Advance Configuration Power Interface (ACPI) based embedded controller on the service processor;
- and
- transmitting the information from the service processor to a chassis management module via a dedicated channel.
A method for managing information from an operating system based environment, comprising:
- determining whether the information is to be communicated to a chassis management module;
- and
- transmitting the information to an Advance Configuration Power Interface (ACPI) based embedded controller on a service processor upon determining that the information is to be communicated with the chassis management module.
An article of manufacture comprising a machine accessible medium including sequences of instructions, the sequences of instructions including instructions which when executed causes the machine to perform:
- determining whether information is to be communicated to a chassis management module;
- and
- transmitting the information to an Advance Configuration Power Interface (ACPI) based embedded controller on the service processor upon determining that the information is to be communicated with the chassis management module.
An Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI) apparatus, comprising:
- an information identification unit to identify information originating from an operating system directed to a chassis management module;
- and
- an embedded controller interface to transmit the information to a service processor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.