Dell Products Inc.

Dell Producrs L.p.

Alaric J N Silveira

Mukund Purshottam Khatri

Dinesh Kunnathur Ragupathi

Ashish Munjal

Christopher C Dumas

Lisa B Treweek

A controller of an information handling system (IHS) prevents unauthorized access to an information handling system (IHS). The controller determines whether a lock data structure in a persistent memory device indicates one or more resources of the IHS are in a locked state. If in locked state, the controller: (i) disables a processor subsystem of the IHS from performing a start-up procedure until a unique password is received from a user interface coupled to the IHS; (ii) receives an input; (iii) determines whether the input matches a unique password contained in an externally unreadable portion of memory of the IHS; (iv) in response to the input matching the unique password, permanently changes the lock data structure to an unlocked state and enables the processor subsystem to perform the start-up procedure.

System shipment lock

A controller of an information handling system (IHS) performs a method to detect tampering with functional components of IHS. Following a last authorized configuration change of locally-available information handling resources, a unique code is generated and stored with a time-stamped system log entry in a system memory. Prior to transit, a system management audit (SMA) log snapshot is generated and provided to an audit device for separately conveying to a recipient of the IHS. In response to powering up at least the controller of the IHS after transit, a current SMA log snapshot is obtained that includes a current SMA log entry and a current unique code. Access by an audit device is provided to the current SMA log snapshot to enable comparison to the SMA log snapshot created prior to transit for identifying whether there has been tampering with the IHS.

System management audit log snapshot

A method, information handling system (IHS) and a detection system for detecting a spoofed firmware image in an IHS. The method includes a processor triggering a controller to execute a diagnostic image for testing an image under test. At least one first test result is received from the controller executing the diagnostic image. The method further includes determining whether the first test result is a valid first test result. In response to determining that the first test result is not a valid first test result, the image under test is identified as a spoofed image that has failed testing. An error message is generated that identifies the image under test as being a spoofed image and the error message is stored to an error log.

Detecting a spoofed image in an information handling system

Server information handling system LED indication lights and other illumination devices are selectively illuminated based upon override configuration settings pushed down from a data center administrative tool. A chassis management controller that manages a blade or rack with plural server information handling systems overrides indication light illumination at blade or rack components, such as power supply and I/O modules. Power saved by reducing indication light illumination is allocated to support operation of one or more server information handling systems.

Server information handling system indicator light management

In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a method may include storing a system fingerprint of an information handling system, the system fingerprint comprising information associated with one or more information handling resources of the information handling system recorded during creation of the system fingerprint including information regarding a security seed, wherein the security seed comprises a value stored at a location of a non-transitory computer readable medium integral to an information handling resource of the one or more information handling resources. The method may also include during a verification mode, based on the information in the system fingerprint, determining whether potential tampering of the information handling system has occurred, and if potential tampering has occurred, issuing an alert indicating potential tampering with the information handling system.

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Alaric J N Silveira