Dell Products Inc.

Jun Gu

Arun Muthaiyan

Akkiah Choudary Maddukuri

Dit Charoen

Jon Vernon Franklin

John Erven Jenne

Eugene David Cho

Venkatesh Ramamoorthy

Sunil Kumar Gattu

Chien-Lin Lee

Timothy Michael Lambert

Deepaganesh Paulraj

Dinesh Kunnathur Ragupathi

Robert Talbott Stevens, Iv

Pablo Rafael Arias

Alaric Joaquim Narcissius Silveira

Robert R Leyendecker

Farhan Mohammed Syed

Alexander J Hoganson

Jason C Dale

Chien Lin Lee

Colby Harper

Douglas J Roberts

Sayali Prafulla Kesari

Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for automatically generating task-based and limited-privilege user security credentials are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes processing a request for user security credentials against one or more predetermined security parameters associated with at least one network; generating, based on the processing of the request, at least one set of user security credentials comprising one or more combinations of multiple randomly selected characters; configuring one or more attributes associated with the at least one set of user security credentials in connection with the at least one network, wherein the one or more attributes comprise at least one of one or more task-related attributes and one or more privilege-related attributes; and performing one or more automated actions based on the one or more configured attributes and/or implementation of the at least one set of user security credentials by one or more users.

Automatically generating task-based and limited-privilege user security credentials

An information handling system may include a management controller and a chassis having mounted therein at least one add-in card. The management controller may be configured to: retrieve connection information from the add-in card, the connection information indicating a physical location of the add-in card within the chassis; compare the connection information with expected connection information associated with the information handling system; determine that the physical location of the add-in card within the chassis is in conflict with a restriction associated with the add-in card; and transmit an error message based on the determining.

Validation of component placement in an information handling system

A system for controlling power settings is provided that includes a plurality of components, each component configured to implement a power control algorithm. A controller is coupled to each component and configured to control a power state of each component as a function of the power control algorithm for each component. The controller comprises a state machine having a plurality of states, wherein the power control algorithm of each component is controlled by the controller as a function of a state of the state machine.

System and method to maintain optimal system performance within user defined system level power cap in a changing workload environment

A disclosed touchless provisioning method configures a baseboard management controller (BMC) of a bare metal server to include or support two or more network services for retrieving a configuration profile locator (CPL) identifying a network-accessible configuration file containing a server configuration profile (SCP). At least one of the network services may be invoked to retrieve the CPL and pass the CPL to a provisioning agent process configured to access the configuration file and configure the system in accordance with the SCP. The server may require a static IP address and the two or more network services may include at least one network service, such as a multicast domain name service (mDNS), suitable for use in conjunction with a static IP address system and at least one network service, such as a DHCP service, suitable for use in conjunction with servers that do not require a static IP address.

Touchless provisioning of information handling systems

An information handling system may include a management controller and information handling resources that are coupled to the management controller via a first communication channel and a second communication channel, each information handling resource having a first communication channel identifier, and each information handling resource having a second communication channel identifier. The management controller may query the information handling resources via the first communication channel to determine a first set of unique identifiers for the information handling resources; query the information handling resources via the second communication channel to determine a second set of unique identifiers for the information handling resources; and based on a comparison between the first set of unique identifiers and the second set of unique identifiers, create a mapping that correlates the first communication channel identifiers with the second communication channel identifiers.

Dynamic slot mapping

An information handling system may include a host system comprising a host system processor and a management controller communicatively coupled to the host system processor and configured to perform out-of-band management of a plurality of devices of the information handling system, and further configured to, during a powering on of the host system randomly select a subset of one or more devices of the plurality of devices for partial validation of firmware of the plurality of devices, randomly select a plurality of offsets associated with the one or more devices for partial verification of the firmware, and perform verification of the one or more devices at the plurality of offsets.

Systems and methods for providing secured boot and scan for devices with limited access

A system for setting a power cap state is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of power monitor sensors generating power monitor sensor data and a plurality of thermal monitor sensors generating thermal monitor sensor data. A controller has a plurality of inputs configured to receive the power monitor sensor data and the thermal monitor sensor data, to assign a priority to one of two or more power cap states and to generate a control signal. A power limiting circuit coupled to the controller is configured to receive the control signal and to modify one or more power settings.

System and method to maintain optimal system performance while adhering to competing power cap policies

A system for controlling power to a complex system, comprising a plurality of processors, one or more power supply unit, each power supply unit including an overcurrent warning system and a baseboard management controller coupled to the plurality of processors and the one or more power supply unit, wherein the baseboard management controller is configured to determine whether a power cap control has been enabled and to adjust an overcurrent warning threshold of the overcurrent warning system.

System and method to maintain power cap while baseboard management controller reboots

A method for managing an information handling system includes detecting an insertion signal indicating an insertion of a server blade or other another type of modular information handling system or information handling resource into a slot of a blade server chassis. A power-on request that identifies the server blade and the slot in which the server blade was inserted may be received. A blade history table may be searched for an entry matching or otherwise corresponding to the server blade. If the blade history table includes a matching entry, comprising an entry corresponding to the modular information handling system, the chassis management controller may control the power-on sequence for the server blade in accordance with one or more attributes or fields of the matching entry.

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Jun Gu