Patent ID: 8938538
Filing Date: 2015-01-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A server with an interface for connecting to a server system, wherein the server has a microcontroller unit having an acknowledgment device that generates an acknowledge signal for acknowledging a control command after said control command is transmitted from the server to a management bus, and wherein the server system comprises a component carrier for holding several servers with a serial management bus and several servers that are connected via serial interfaces to the management bus, wherein one server is set up as a management server and the other servers are set up as data processing servers, wherein the server system is set up such that information is transmitted only in a unidirectional manner from the management server via the serial management bus to the data processing servers and the management server has a CPU, a bus driver and a microcontroller unit, the CPU being adapted to generate a control command, to send the control command to a bus driver that converts the control command from a bidirectional signal into a unidirectional signal and transmits the converted signal via the interface to the management bus, and the microcontroller unit being adapted as an acknowledgement device that, after sending a control command from the management server to the management bus, generates an acknowledge signal for acknowledging the sent control command.