Lenovo Global Technology (united States) Inc.

Savant Technologies LLC

Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.

Tyco Electronics (shanghai) Co., Ltd.

Vetco Gray Scandinavia As

Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Consumer Lighting (u.s.), LLC

Ming Lei

Fred Allison Bower, Iii

Caihong Zhang

Huisheng Zhou

Yin Suo

Lei Shi

Hua Pan

Jiang Chen

Haomin Jiang

Yongchao Su

Gary David Cudak

Bo Gao

Zhi Hu Wang

Ajay Dholakia

Jonathan Randall Hinkle

Scott Alan Piper

Fanbin Wang

Ning Wang

Rihua Xiong

Wilson Velez

Ying Zhou

Michael Gerard Demeter

Jiyang Xia

Yue Wu

Yao Fu

Jiefeng Zhang

Kevin S Vernon

Wenbo Lv

Mehul Shah

Jean Chen

John Scott Harsany

Dungui Zuo

Glenn D Johnson

Chenqian Zhang

Jiakang Lv

Hai Jun Xu

Chengjie Liu

Zhongqu Sun

Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for dynamic baseboard management controller memory use. A method includes determining, by use of a processor, presence of main memory of a computing device, in response to determining that the main memory is not present in the computing device, preparing at least a portion of a memory device of a baseboard management controller for use by the processor, and making the at least a portion of the memory device of the BMC available to the processor.

Dynamic baseboard management controller memory use

The present application discloses a light and disinfection system and a method for disinfecting an illuminated surface by the light and disinfection system, wherein the light and disinfection system comprises an illumination module, including an illumination source; a distance sensor for detecting a distance between the light and disinfection system and the illuminated surface; and a disinfection module, including a disinfection light source and a control unit, the control unit receiving the distance detected by the distance sensor and controlling an irradiation power of the disinfection light source based on the distance, such that an irradiation amount of the illuminated surface accumulated within one disinfection circle is kept at a predetermined value.

Light and disinfection system and a method for disinfecting an illuminated surface by the system

A computer program product, a method and a baseboard management controller for performing the operations of computer program product or method. The operations include identifying a current utilization level of the processor of the baseboard management controller, obtaining hardware performance data for hardware devices installed in a server that includes the baseboard management controller, running an application program that performs hardware failure prediction, and controlling an amount of the hardware performance data that is used by the application program to perform the hardware failure prediction, wherein the amount of the hardware performance data is controlled as a function of the current utilization level of the processor.

Controlling an amount of data used by a baseboard management conroller to perform hardware failure prediction

A computer program product and computer-implemented method include operations including identifying a software update payload that is available for distribution and identifying compatibility data for the software update payload, wherein the compatibility data identifies configurations of a computing device that are compatible with the software update payload. The operations further include forming an update package that includes the software update payload and the compatibility data, digitally signing the update package, and providing the signed update package to one or more computing devices over a network. A computing device receiving the signed update package may authenticate the signed update package, verify the package has not experienced an unauthorized modification, access the compatibility data, determine whether the compatibility data indicates that the software update payload is compatible with the configuration of the computing device, and use the software update payload to update the computing device in response to a determination of compatibility.

Signed update package including a software update payload and compatibility data

A computer program product includes a non-transitory computer readable medium and program instructions embodied therein. An apparatus includes a non-transitory data storage device storing program instructions and at least one processor configured to process the program instructions. The program instructions are configured to, when processed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform various operations. The operations may include monitoring a tamper-detection sensor of an edge device, wherein the edge device performs a tamper-prevention operation in response to an output signal from the tamper-detection sensor. The operations may further include detecting entry of an authorized person into a facility where the edge device is located and automatically sending a disabling instruction to the edge device to cause the edge device to temporarily disable the tamper-prevention operation of the edge device in response to detecting entry of the authorized person into the facility.

Disabling a tamper-prevention operation of an edge device in response to detection of an authorized person

A replacement node replaces a failed node and a baseboard management controller (BMC) for the replacement node generates a nonce code that is accessible to an authenticated user. An edge management node receives the nonce code from the user and sends a maintenance token to a BMC of a peer node in an edge cluster, wherein the peer nodes BMCs within the cluster are in a BMC federation that included the failed node BMC and have access to a BMC configuration for the failed node. The management node sends the token and the nonce code to the replacement node BMC for authentication of the token. The peer node BMC sends the token received from the management node to the replacement node BMC for authentication of the peer node BMC. The authenticated peer node BMC may then deploy the BMC configuration to the replacement node BMC.

Configuring a replacement node using a configuration backup of a failed node being replaced

An computing device for dual-access high-performance storage for BMC to host data sharing includes a storage device, a host input/output ('IO') domain hardware, a BMC that includes an external data connection, and a switch that includes a connection to the host IO domain hardware, a connection to the storage device, a connection to a root port in the BMC, and a connection to an end point port of the BMC. The switch is configured to connect the host IO domain hardware to the end point port of the BMC and configured to alternately connect the root port of the BMC to the storage device while uploading data from the external data connection to the storage device, and the host IO domain hardware to the storage device to permit the host IO domain hardware to access to the data uploaded from the external data connection.

Dual-access high-performance storage for BMC to host data sharing

A method for automatic systems devices rediscovery includes creating a hardware map of hardware components of a computing system at a time when each of the hardware components of the computing system is discoverable. The method includes determining discoverability of each hardware component in the hardware map at a point in time after creation of the hardware map, and in response to determining that a hardware component listed in the hardware map is not discoverable, initiating a reset of the hardware component.

Automatic systems devices rediscovery

Outdoor speaker lamp

Baseboard management controller ('BMC') group administration includes: receiving, by a member BMC from a leader BMC, a leader certificate and a request to join a group of the leader BMC, where the request is signed by the leader BMC and the leader certificate is signed by a certificate authority; authenticating, by the member BMC, the leader certificate and the request; and sending, by the member BMC, an acknowledgement to the leader BMC to join the leader BMC's group.

Baseboard management controller group administration

A computer program product and computer-implemented method include various operations. The operations include periodically obtaining a subset of a first failure data capture file from a baseboard management controller, analyzing the subset of the first failure data capture file to identify a performance degradation in one or more services performed by the baseboard management controller, and obtaining a complete copy of the first failure data capture file from the baseboard management controller in response to identifying the performance degradation, wherein the complete copy of the first failure data capture file is obtained from the baseboard management controller prior to the performance degradation reaching a performance level that triggers an automatic reset of the baseboard management controller. The operations may further include sending a notification to a user, wherein the notification identifies that the baseboard management controller has experienced the performance degradation.

Identifying and reporting baseboard management controller performance degradation

A computer program product provides program instructions that are executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform various operations. The operations may include monitoring a performance metric for a workload instance being executed by a composed system within a pool of composable resources in a composable computing system. The composed system includes a compute resource and an associated hardware resource selected from a data storage resource, a memory resource and/or a graphic processing resource. A service level agreement is identified for the workload instance, wherein the agreement includes a minimum level of the performance metric that the composed system must provide to support the workload instance. A power cap may be imposed on the compute resource, and a power cap may be imposed on the associated hardware resource by sending a power capping command to a baseboard management controller on a server including the associated hardware resource.

Power capping in a composable computing system

The present disclosure relates to a light and disinfection system, comprising: a lighting system which includes an illumination source and a diffusion hood suitable for the illumination source; a disinfection system which includes a disinfection light source and a cover adapted to transmit the disinfection light source, wherein the diffusion hood and the cover are respectively used for the illumination source and the disinfection light source.

Light and disinfection system with coincident illumination range

A method includes various operations and a computer program product may cause a processor to perform various operations. The operations include obtaining, for each of a plurality of baseboard management controllers (BMCs) that have been configured to form a baseboard management controller (BMC) group, an amount of load placed on the BMC, wherein a first BMC in the BMC group has been configured to operate as a BMC group leader for the BMC group. The operations further include, in response to a second BMC in the BMC group having less load than any other BMC in the BMC group, configuring the second BMC to operate as the BMC group leader and unconfiguring the first BMC to no longer operate as the BMC group leader. Still further, the operations include causing the second BMC to perform a BMC group operation operating as the BMC group leader.

Configuration of a baseboard management controller (BMC) group leader responsive to load

A connector assembly includes a connector, a circuit board having a first soldering pin and a second soldering pin electrically connected with the first soldering pin, a cable having a wire with a conductor, and an outer shield housing mounted on the circuit board and covering the connector, the cable, and the circuit board. The connector includes a shield housing, an insulation body disposed in the shield housing, and a conductive terminal held in the insulation body. The conductive terminal is soldered to the first soldering pin. The conductor is soldered to the second soldering pin.

Connector assembly

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Shanghai, China

Ming Lei