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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2006
Filed:
May. 10, 2001
Anna M. Zara, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Sharad Singhal, Belmont, CA (US);
Anna M. Zara, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Sharad Singhal, Belmont, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The invention includes a method, system, and article to automatically soft configure a node, such as a compute node, in a data center. The data center may have several racks and a unit may be installed in one of the racks as the node. Each rack may be identified by a unique rack location. The data center may include various servers, devices, and rack locations tied together through a Local Area Network (LAN) mechanism. A new unit deployed within the data center may be discovered. A configuration template for the discovered unit may then be found. Based on the configuration template, software automatically may be installed no the discovered unit.
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