Patent ID: 8452863

Claim:
A server system, comprising: at least a system board comprising a baseboard management controller and a plurality of nodes, wherein the baseboard management controller comprises a plurality of node management units, a hardware abstraction layer (HAL) and a hardware resource, and the node management units respectively manage the nodes and share the hardware resource under the control of the HAL; a connection port used for connecting to an external system administrator; and an internal channel connected to the system board and the connection port; the at least a system board further comprising a plurality of transmission ports, the baseboard management controller being connected to the external system administrator via the transmission ports, wherein if an external instruction is transmitted to the baseboard management controller through the hardware resource, then the HAL identifies which transmission port receives the external instruction and transmits the external instruction to the corresponding node management unit, and after the corresponding node management unit executes the external instruction, the corresponding node management unit transmits an information to the HAL for transmitting the information back to the external system administrator via the transmission port.