Keyboard, video and mouse switch identifying and displaying nodes experiencing a problem

A computer program product including computer readable program code embodied on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, the computer program product including:

• computer readable program code for causing a keyboard, video and mouse (KVM) switch to communicate over a network with service processors of a plurality of compute nodes, wherein the keyboard video and mouse switch polls the service processor of each of the plurality of compute nodes;
• computer readable program code for causing the KVM switch to identify a compute node from among the plurality of compute nodes that is unreachable over the network;
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• computer readable program code for causing the keyboard, video and mouse switch to receive a signal from the identified compute node through a keyboard, video, or mouse input/output port of the identified compute node connected to the keyboard, video and mouse switch, wherein the signal identifies one or more predetermined problems experienced by the identified compute node;
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• computer readable program code for causing the KVM switch to automatically generate a graphical user interface including the identity of the identified compute node for display on a display device that is connected to the KVM switch.