Patent ID: 7996706

Claim:
A system comprising: a management module; a plurality of processors; a management pathway coupling the management module to the plurality of data processing systems; a list of reserved management pathway locations that are reserved for the plurality of data processing systems on the management pathway; a presence detect device coupled to the management pathway, wherein if a download of computer code to a first data processing system in the plurality of data processing systems fails and causes a management pathway location for the first data processing system to become undefined by the first data processing system, then the presence detect device detects a failure signal from the first data processing system on a special address on the management pathway, thus resulting in the management module comparing the list of reserved management pathway locations with locations of data processing units that are currently active on the management pathway to restore a management pathway location to the first data processing unit; a control logic, which is compliant with an I 2 C bus specification, for restoring the management pathway location to the first data processing system; and a blocker for blocking communication from the management module to a second data processing system that has failed to download software, wherein the first data processing unit can have its management pathway location restored while the second data processing system is blocked, and the second data processing system can subsequently have its management pathway location restored after unblocking the blocker.