Patent ID: 7383454

Claim:
A blade information handling system server comprising: a chassis having a power supply associated with plural blade slots, each blade slot operable to accept a blade information handling system and apply power to the blade information handling system; a chassis management controller interfaced with the power supply and the slots and operable to control the application of power at a slot; one or more blade information handling systems disposed in the slots and interfaced with the chassis management controller, each blade information handling system having an associated baseboard management controller operable to manage startup to an on state and shut down to an off state of the associated blade information handling system; and a power inventory module running on each baseboard management controller, the power inventory module operable to perform a first power inventory of the associated blade information handling system in the off state and a second power inventory in the on state; wherein the baseboard management controller is further operable to check for firmware corruption and, if firmware corruption is detected, to communicate a predetermined power inventory as the first power inventory.