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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 19, 2018
Applicant:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

James T. Bodner, Houston, TX (US);

David Blocker, Houston, TX (US);

Darrell R. Haskell, Houston, TX (US);

Thomas E. Kessler, Houston, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 8/61 (2018.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01); G06F 11/22 (2006.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1417 (2013.01); G06F 8/61 (2013.01); G06F 11/079 (2013.01); G06F 11/0757 (2013.01); G06F 11/2284 (2013.01); G06F 11/366 (2013.01);
Abstract

Example implementations relate to automatic diagnostic mode to identify a potential cause of a boot problem of a system. In an example, the automatic diagnostic mode iteratively isolates subsystems of the system in coordination with a baseboard management controller. For each iteration of subsystem isolation, a system boot is executed while a subsystem is isolated. The system boot is monitored against a watchdog timer of the baseboard management controller to determine if the system boot is successful. If the system boot is successful, the isolated subsystem is marked as a potential cause of the boot problem of the system. If the system boot is unsuccessful, the automatic diagnostic mode continues to iteratively isolate the subsystems.


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