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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2023
Dell Products, L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
A Anis Ahmed, Bangalore, IN;
Jason Matthew Young, Round Rock, TX (US);
Pallavi Satpathy, Bhubaneswar, IN;
Dell Products, L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided validating the movement of hardware components of a chassis that are shared by multiple IHSs (Information Handling Systems), such as rack-mounted servers. During factory provisioning of the IHS, a factory-signed inventory certificate is uploaded to each IHS that identifies factory-installed hardware of the IHS and that also identifies any known hardware components that are shared by the IHS. This inventory certificate is used to validate that the detected hardware of the IHS is genuine factory-installed hardware. During such validations by IHSs installed in a chassis, an inventory of shared chassis hardware components is constructed. When a discrepancy is detected during these validations, the IHS notifies a chassis management controller in order to determine whether the discrepancy is caused by movement of a shared hardware component of the chassis.