Patent ID: 8397053

Claim:
A multi-motherboard server system, set up in a server system, wherein the multi-motherboard server system comprises: a management board having a BMC; a plurality of motherboards respectively connected to the management board, wherein each of the motherboards comprises: a south bridge chip; a PIC electrically connected to the south bridge chip and the BMC, wherein the PIC records a working status message of its own motherboard; and a NIC adapted for connecting to a network and a far-end control system used to communicate with the BMC, wherein the NIC is electrically connected to the south bridge chip to connect the motherboard to the network, and the NIC is further electrically connected to the BMC through a serial bus interface, and when the far-end control system communicates with the BMC, the communication between the far-end control system and the BMC is conducted through the NIC and the serial bus interface; wherein the working status messages of the motherboards are recorded by their own PICs respectively, and the BMC identifies the motherboards through the PICs and obtains the working status messages of the motherboards on which the PICs are located, thereby monitoring the statuses of the motherboards, and the BMC communicates with the far-end control system through the NIC and the serial bus interface of one of the motherboards.