Abstract: A hot-swap controller fault reporting system includes component(s), a hot-swap controller that is coupled to the component(s), and a hot-swap controller fault reporting subsystem that is coupled to the hot-swap controller. The hot-swap controller fault reporting subsystem identifies a hot-swap controller fault that was generated by the hot-swap controller and that is associated with the component(s), generates an Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) bit combination that is based on the hot-swap controller fault and that is configured to identify the hot-swap controller and a type of the hot-swap controller fault, and provides a log entry based on the IPMI bit combination in a log database.

Abstract: A fan management system includes a chassis housing a storage fan system, a storage system cooled by the storage fan system, computing fan subsystems, and computing devices cooled by respective ones of the computing fan subsystems. Each of the computing devices detects a multi-computing-device configuration that includes the computing devices and, in response, determines a computing device chassis location for that computing device. Each computing device then receives fan inventory information that describes the storage fan system and the computing fan subsystems, distinguishes between the storage fan system and the computing fan subsystems based on the fan inventory information, identifies the computing fan subsystem that is configured to cool that computing device based on the computing device chassis location for that computing device, manages the computing fan subsystem that is configured to cool that computing device, and ignores the others of the computing fan subsystems.

Abstract: A hot-swap controller fault reporting system includes component(s), a hot-swap controller that is coupled to the component(s), and a hot-swap controller fault reporting subsystem that is coupled to the hot-swap controller. The hot-swap controller fault reporting subsystem identifies a hot-swap controller fault that was generated by the hot-swap controller and that is associated with the component(s), generates an Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) bit combination that is based on the hot-swap controller fault and that is configured to identify the hot-swap controller and a type of the hot-swap controller fault, and provides a log entry based on the IPMI bit combination in a log database.

Abstract: A backplane management and configuration system includes a chassis housing a first storage system having a first backplane, a second storage system having a second backplane, a second computing device coupled to each of the first backplane and the second backplane via a second multiplexer and a communication bus, and a first computing device coupled to each of the first backplane and the second backplane via a first multiplexer and the communication bus. A backplane configuration/management subsystem in the first computing device detects a multi-computing-device configuration including the first and second computing devices in the chassis and, in response, determines a first computing device location in the chassis.