American Megatrends International, LLC

American Megatrends, Inc.

Igor Kulchytskyy

Harikrishna Doppalapudi

Purandhar Nallagatla

Chandrasekar Rathineswaran

Madhan B Santharam

Manickavasakam Karpagavinayagam

Manish Jha

Altaf Hussain

Manikandan Palaniappan

Shirley Heby Hubert

Gopinath Sekaran

Oleksandr Podgorsky

Bejean David Mosher

Senthamizhsey Subramanian

Winston Thangapandian

Viswanathan Swaminathan

Raj Velusamy Akilan

Technologies are described herein for remotely configuring multi-mode dual in-line memory modules ('multi-mode DIMMs') using a firmware or a baseboard management controller (“BMC”). Technologies are also described for simultaneously initiating multiple commands for configuring multi-mode DIMMs using a BMC and for updating inventory data regarding multi-mode DIMMs stored by a BMC.

Remote configuration of multi-mode DIMMs through firmware

Technologies are described for verifying the integrity of data transmitted between a firmware and a baseboard management controller ('BMC'). During a first verification phase, a data integrity tool compares system inventory data provided by firmware protocols to a system inventory module to system inventory data in a device instance format. During a second verification phase, the data integrity tool verifies operation of a firmware conversion module by comparing the system inventory data in the device instance format to the system inventory data in a JavaScript Object Notation ('JSON') format. During a third verification phase, the data integrity tool retrieves the system inventory data from a management server and compares the system inventory data retrieved from the management server to the system inventory data previously transmitted to the management server. Identified discrepancies can be utilized to modify the system inventory module, the firmware conversion module, or the management server.

Verifying the integrity of data transmitted between a firmware and a baseboard management controller (BMC)

Technologies are described herein for remotely configuring multi-mode dual in-line memory modules ('multi-mode DIMMs') using a firmware or a baseboard management controller ('BMC'). Technologies are also described for simultaneously initiating multiple commands for configuring multi-mode DIMMs using a BMC and for updating inventory data regarding multi-mode DIMMs stored by a BMC.

Remote configuration of multi-mode DIMMs through a baseboard management controller

Technologies are described herein for a representational state transfer ('REST' or 'RESTful') over Intelligent Platform Management Interface (&#x201c;IPMI&#x201d;) interface for firmware to baseboard management controller (&#x201c;BMC&#x201d;) communication and applications thereof. These applications include, but are not limited to, remote firmware configuration, firmware updates, peripheral device firmware updates, provision of management information such as system inventory data, cloning and batch migration of firmware configuration settings, and firmware integrity monitoring.

Cloning of firmware configuration settings using rest over IPMI interface

Updating multi-mode DIMM inventory data maintained by a baseboard management controller

Simultaneous initiation of multiple commands for configuring multi-mode DIMMS using a BMC

Technologies are provided for automated identification of system devices to be disabled in a computing system and the disablement of the system devices during bootup of the computing system. In some embodiments, the computing system can execute a firmware configured to perform a bootup process of the computing system. The computing system includes multiple system devices. The firmware can generate program code for identifying a system device for disablement. The firmware can send the program code to a controller device curing the bootup process, where execution of the program code by the controller device generates data identifying one or several specific system devices to be disabled in the computing system. The firmware can then access such data from the controller device. Using the data, the firmware can determine that a specific system device to be disabled. The firmware can then disable that particular system device on a next bootup process.

Automated identification and disablement of system devices in a computing system

Technologies are described herein for a representational state transfer ('REST' or 'RESTful') over Intelligent Platform Management Interface (&#x201c;IPMI&#x201d;) interface for firmware to BMC communication and applications thereof. These applications include, but are not limited to, remote firmware configuration, firmware updates, peripheral device firmware updates, provision of management information such as system inventory data, cloning and batch migration of firmware configuration settings, and firmware integrity monitoring. This functionality can be provided in a way that enables communication between BMCs and firmware to utilize modern manageability interfaces while maintaining backward compatibility with previous IPMI implementations.

Secure firmware integrity monitoring using rest over IPMI interface

Non-destructive update of discrete firmware components of a firmware is provided. During a boot-up process, the availability of an update for the firmware can be determined prior to execution thereof. To that end, a controller device can be queried for availability of the update and, when the update is available, a processor that executes the firmware as part of the boot-up process can retrieve an updated version of one or more components of the firmware from a virtual drive device provided by the controller device. The processor can retain such component(s) in a main memory device. The processor can then execute the component(s) from the main memory and can execute other non-updated component(s) of the firmware from a non-volatile memory device that retains the firmware. Therefore, the firmware can be updated during the boot-up process, without changing the contents of the non-volatile memory device.

Non-destructive update of discrete components of firmware

Technologies are described herein for a representational state transfer ('REST' or 'RESTful') over IPMI interface for firmware to BMC communication and applications thereof. These applications include, but are not limited to, remote firmware configuration, firmware updates, peripheral device firmware updates, provision of management information such as system inventory data, cloning and batch migration of firmware configuration settings, and firmware integrity monitoring. This functionality can be provided in a way that enables communication between BMCs and firmware to utilize modern manageability interfaces while maintaining backward compatibility with previous IPMI implementations.

Peripheral device firmware update using rest over IPMI interface firmware update module

Peripheral device firmware update using rest over IPMI interface firmware shell utility

Technologies are described herein for a representational state transfer ('REST' or 'RESTful') over an Intelligent Platform Management Interface (&#x201c;IPMI&#x201d;) interface for firmware to a baseboard management controller (&#x201c;BMC&#x201d;) communication and applications thereof. These applications include, but are not limited to, remote firmware configuration, firmware updates, peripheral device firmware updates, provision of management information such as system inventory data, cloning and batch migration of firmware configuration settings, and firmware integrity monitoring. This functionality can be provided in a way that enables communication between BMCs and firmware to utilize modern manageability interfaces while maintaining backward compatibility with previous IPMI implementations.

Rest over IPMI interface for firmware to BMC communication

Technologies are described herein for a representational state transfer ('REST' or 'RESTful') over Intelligent Platform Management Interface (&#x201c;IPMI&#x201d;) interface for firmware to baseboard management controller (&#x201c;BMC&#x201d;) communication and applications thereof. These applications include, but are not limited to, remote firmware configuration, firmware updates, peripheral device firmware updates, provision of management information such as system inventory data, cloning and batch migration of firmware configuration settings, and firmware integrity monitoring. This functionality can be provided in a way that enables communication between BMCs and firmware to utilize modern manageability interfaces while maintaining backward compatibility with previous IPMI implementations.

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Igor Kulchytskyy