Dell Products Inc.

Quest Software Inc.

Charles Terrence Perusse, Jr

Jon Robert Hass

Abhay Arjun Salunke

Cuong T Nguyen

Elie Antoun Jreij

Terry Wayne Liles

Manoj Sharad Gujarathi

Marshal F Savage

Anand Prakash Joshi

Rabah S Hamdi

Matthew Lee Domsch

Yong Cao

Kevin W Deike

Mukund Purshottam Khatri

Gaurav Chawla

Sudhir Vittal Shetty

Wei G Liu

Michael Emery Brown

Michael A Brundridge

Michael John Morton

Juan Francisco Diaz

Weijia Zhang

James T Ahlborn

Theodore Stratton Webb

Stephen Cochran

Aaron Blackwell

Matthew Christian Paul

Yousef Yacoub

In one embodiment, an information handling system may include a processor, a display that may provide a user interface allowing a user to select one or more system utilities to be accessed, memory that may include a plurality of memory partitions storing a plurality of system utilities, and a management controller. During a configuration of the information handling system, the management controller may receive a request from the user via the user interface to access one or more selected system utilities; identify one or more memory partitions storing the one or more selected system utilities; and cause the display to display one or more user-selectable icons corresponding to the one or more identified memory partitions to provide the user access to the one or more identified memory partitions.

Systems and methods for accessing system utilities

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request for a value of at least one data element defined by a master data management (MDM) model, wherein the at least one data element is based, at least in part, on monitoring data collected from a monitored system. The method further includes determining from a central data store whether the at least one data element is centrally stored or is federated. The central data store maintains a common representation of a plurality of data elements in conformance to the MDM model. The MDM model is extended to indicate whether each data element of the plurality of data elements is centrally stored or is federated. The determining is based, at least in part, on the indication.

Systems and methods for storing and accessing monitoring data

A network switch includes a service registration database and a service discovery engine that is coupled to the service registration database. The service discovery engine receives a first service registration over a network from a first service included on a first service device and, in response, stores the first service registration in the service registration database. The service discovery engine then receives a multicast service discovery message over the network from a target device. The service discovery message includes a service identification. The service discovery engine then determines that the service identification is associated with the first service registration stored in the service registration database and, in response, sends a unicast service communication message over the network to the target device. The service communication message includes communication information for the first service. The service registration database may store a plurality of different service registrations for respective different services.

Automated network service discovery and communication

An information handling system includes a server having a management system module. The management system module broadcasts an address resolution protocol request including a unique identifier in the information handling system. The management system module also receives multiple address resolution protocol responses to the address resolution protocol request. Each of the multiple address resolution protocol responses includes a different media access control address associated with the unique identifier. The management system module also creates a unique identifier table correlating each of the media access control addresses with the unique identifier.

System and method for utilizing a unique identifier while registering a device in a network

Systems and methods for reducing problems and disadvantages associated traditional approaches to provisioning using access controllers are disclosed. A method may include storing a definition data structure in storage media associated with an access controller in an information handling system, the definition data structure including one or more parameters. The access controller may create a storage partition on the storage media based at least on the one or more parameters.

System and method for dynamic enablement of storage media associated with an access controller

Systems and methods for reducing problems and disadvantages associated with multiple boot methods are disclosed. In accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure, an information handling system comprises a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. The information handling system also comprises an access controller communicatively coupled to the processor. The access controller is configured to retrieve non-bootable executable instructions and combine the non-bootable executable instructions with a boot loader associated with a boot method to generate a bootable image associated with the boot method. The access controller is further configured to present the bootable image to the information handling system such that the bootable image is configured to be booted by the information handling system using the boot method.

System and method for facilitating booting using a plurality of boot methods

Firmware updates at an information handling system flash memory device, such as provisioning information stored on a USB device, are securely performed by using a buffer memory and a secured code. An application running on a CPU generates a firmware update and a security code, such as a ciphered hash code based on the firmware update, stores the firmware update and security code in a buffer, and informs a management processor of the update. The management processor analyzes the firmware update to authorize copying of the update from the buffer to the flash memory device. For instance, the management processor creates the security code from the firmware update and compares the created code with the security code stored in the buffer to validate the firmware update.

System and method for secure information handling system flash memory access

A method for out-of-band installation and provisioning of an operating system in an information handling system is provided. The method may include sending an OS installation request to a management controller, which may include an internal persistent storage Furthermore, the method may include selecting a selected OS driver pack in response to the OS installation request and exposing the selected OS driver pack to a target server. Finally, the method may include installing the OS with the selected OS driver pack onto the target server.

Operation system installation methods and media

An embedded management system that allows an administrator to manage the systems hardware without having to install and setup any management software. In certain embodiments, the embedded management ecosystem includes a unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI), internal persistent storage and a service processor to provide a single interface that allows the administrator to consistently manage system hardware independent of any operating system without installing an operating system or specific agents.

Embedded managed system services repository

A system and method is disclosed for the uniform installation of one or more of a plurality of heterogeneous operating systems (operating systems) on a predetermined information handling system. A common preinstallation environment (CPE) is implemented, comprising a host preinstallation environment (HPE) and one or more native preinstallation environments (NPEs). If an NPE is not required for installation, an HPE comprising a common, bootable kernel generates a bootable operating system image that is installed on the target system. Otherwise, the HPE creates a deployment partition, where it implements the NPE and generates a metafile describing the hardware drivers supported by the NPE. The HPE then inventories the hardware components comprising the target system and compares the results to the metafile. If all required drivers are accessible, the target system boots to the NPE, which begins native installation of the chosen operating system. Otherwise, the HPE injects the missing drivers into the operating system image generated by the NPE and the resulting operating system image is then installed on the target system. If the HPE cannot inject drivers into the NPE, then a stage handler is implemented to relinquish installation control to the NPE which completes a native installation.

Method and process for using common preinstallation environment for heterogeneous operating systems

A boot image discovery and delivery system includes one or more subsystems to provide a host device, provide an image discovery client on the host device, transfer control of a start-up initialization to the image discovery client, receive authentication credentials from a centralized database, provide a first boot image to the host device for a first set of credentials and provide a second boot image to the host device for a second set of credentials.

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Pflugerville, TX, United States of America

Charles Terrence Perusse, Jr