Dell Products Inc.

Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Walter Kemp

William Paul Hyden

Juan Manuel Martinez

Michael K Padilla

Kenneth A Fortner

Michael A Hixson

Kearson M McNulty

For endpoint Information Handling System (IHS) configuration based on network context, the IHS may use a discovery network service to find a location of an encrypted (and signed using public key infrastructure) options document, decrypted and validate the options document using the public encryption key, and use (a) option(s) from the resultingly decrypted options document to modify behavior of the IHS. The IHS may use the discovery network service to determine the IHS's environment, prior to using the discovery network service to find the location of the options document. The IHS may remove the public encryption key, in repose to completion of modification of the IHS's behavior in accordance with the option(s) from the decrypted options document.

Endpoint information handling system (IHS) configuration based on network context

Display status agents executing on plural information handling systems coordinate presentation of visual images at plural displays by plural information handling systems through a display status memory external to the plural information handling systems, such as at a network location, a docking station or the displays. By referencing the display status memory, each display status agent determines information handling systems interfaced with each display and selects displays to present visual information based upon end user preferences to minimize manual interactions by an end user to accomplish a desired display presentation configuration.

Plural display plural information handling system sharing

A virtual burn rack monitor accesses messages posted to a cloud-based service. Each message provides any informational content sent from a device. The virtual burn rack monitor downloads the message and determines a manufacturing environment for the device. For example, the virtual burn rack monitor uses a hardware identifier of the device to a customer's configuration service. Once the customer is determined, the cloud-based service sends the message to the manufacturing environment assigned to, or associated with, the customer. The message may, as another example, be forwarded or sent to a burn rack operating within a manufacturing facility that is assigned to that customer. The message may thus be displayed to technicians and other personnel on the manufacturing floor. So, even though the device is remotely located from the manufacturing facility, the device may update the technicians as to its status and operating conditions.

Virtual burn rack monitor

A method is used in configuring a device in computing environments. A configuration system retrieves device information from the device. The configuration system creates a configuration script for the device using the device information. The configuration system executes the configuration script to direct a peripheral device to transmit Human Interface Device (HID) events to the device, where the device performs the device configuration.

Configuring a device using an automated manual process bridge

An information handling system receives a media access control address associated with a device installed in a burn slot, and determines a virtual private network that is associated with the media access control address. The system also determines a switch port in a network switch that corresponds to the virtual private network, and dynamically assigns the switch port that corresponds to the virtual private network to the device installed in the burn slot. The system instructs the network switch to route packets of data associated with the virtual private network via the switch port to the device installed in the burn slot.

Dynamic burn slot allocator

Information handling system boot with an operating system initiated by a BIOS maintains consistency of storage device numbering order between the BIOS and the operating system by branding BIOS storage device configuration information on the storage devices for subsequent use by the operating system. A branding module in a Linux operating system retrieves BIOS hard disc drive configuration information from the BIOS during real mode of the boot which allows operating system access to the BIOS, and stores the hard disc drive information on its associated hard disc drive. A branding retrieval module in the Linux operating system retrieves the configuration information from each respective hard disc drive during a protected mode of the boot which does not allow operating system access to the BIOS, and applies the configuration information to the operating system for consistency with the BIOS.

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