Patent ID: 9582350
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A computer system comprising: a plurality of electronic devices including one or more processing units and one or more memory devices, at least two of the electronic devices being field replaceable units; a plurality of links interconnecting said electronic devices including at least two serial interfaces having an identical interface design adapted for interconnecting said field replaceable units; and at least one device driver for controlling one of said electronic devices wherein said device driver detects an error in the computer system, analyzes the error using fault isolation logic to determine first failure data and a logical error identifier for the error representing a hardware logical area of a fault which caused the error, associates the error with an error number using the device driver, the error number representing an error type and the logical error identifier being different from the error number, and maps the fault to a segment of the computer system using the first failure data and the logical error identifier based on a self-describing system model for the computer system which is stored in one of said memory devices.