Patent ID: 8656149
Filing Date: 2014-02-18
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: determining, by a bootloader process executing on a service management processor (SMP) subsystem for a server device, subsequent to the SMP subsystem having replaced a faulty SMP subsystem for the server device, the SMP subsystem having same hardware as the faulty SMP subsystem, the SMP subsystem having never been previously booted, whether an initialization flag stored within non-volatile memory of the SMP subsystem is set, the initialization flag corresponding to whether a full cold initialization process of the SMP subsystem is to occur; in response to determining that the initialization flag has not been set; wherein the SMP subsystem is warm booted a first time power is applied to the SMP subsystem without ever having been cold booted such that the SMP subsystem runs the processes previously running on the faulty SMP subsystem prior to the SMP subsystem having replaced the faulty SMP subsystem.