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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2013
Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., New Tech Park, SG;
Nathan J. Peterson, Durham, NC (US);
John Scott Crowe, Durham, NC (US);
Amy Leigh Rose, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Jennifer Lee-Baron, Morrisville, NC (US);
James C. Loebach, Raleigh, NC (US);
Nagananda Chumbalkar, Cary, NC (US);
Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
A first server includes a processor and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to determine that a server is present that has not had settings other than at most default settings applied to a basic input output system (BIOS) executable by the server to boot the server. The instructions are also executable by the processor to, based at least in part on a determination that the server is the same model of server as the apparatus, has the same BIOS version as the apparatus, and/or has the same baseboard management controller (BMC) version as the apparatus, facilitate over a peer to peer server network at least some settings in the apparatus to be provisioned to the server to establish the at least some settings in the server.