Patent ID: 8738758

Claim:
A method of remotely administering a server, the server comprising non-volatile memory upon which is disposed one or more digital images representing the server, the server further comprising one or more components installed in the server with each component comprising non-volatile memory in which is disposed one or more digital images representing the component, the server connected for data communications to a management module, the method comprising: retrieving, by the management module from the server, the digital images representing the server and the digital images representing the installed components, wherein the server is installed in a server rack that includes non-volatile memory in which is disposed one or more digital images representing the server rack; detecting, by the management module, a fault in at least one component installed in the server; generating, by the management module using the digital images representing the server, components installed in the server rack, and the server rack, a graphical representation of the server rack, wherein the graphical representation includes the server, the installed components, and a hyperlink embedded at a location in the graphical representation corresponding to a physical location of the installed component in which the fault was detected; and presenting the graphical representation of the server rack including the embedded hyperlink at the location in the graphical representation corresponding to the physical location of the installed component in which the fault was detected, wherein the embedded hyperlink links to a graphical representations of the installed component in which the fault was detected, and wherein the graphical representation of the installed component in which the fault was detected comprises a hyperlink that links to a location in a fault log file that includes information describing the detected fault.