Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Erick Armando Gomez

Kevin J Brusky

Bryan J Jacquot

Phil Prasek

Maneksha Basheer

Vartan Yosef Kasheshian

Jason H Fay

Jason Fay

Uchenna Edeh

Techniques for action execution based on management controller received action requests are provided. In one aspect, a utility program running under the control of an operating system on a server computer may retrieve an indication of an action request. The action request may be stored in a management controller accessible storage. Storage of the action request may not require operating system administrator credentials. The action specified in the request may be executed by the utility program.

Action execution based on management controller action request

An example method includes retrieving, based on firmware map data stored in a firmware map, first portions of a system firmware while omitting retrieval of second portions to form a combined portion. The firmware map data is indicative of the first portions of the system firmware that remain unchanged over a normal lifetime of the system firmware, and the firmware map data is also indicative of the second portions of the system firmware that may vary over the normal lifetime of the system firmware. The method further includes calculating at least one master hash code based on the combined portion, and storing the at least one master hash code in a hash code table in association with the firmware map data.

Firmware map data

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Erick Armando Gomez