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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2005
Jesse Paul Arroyo, Rochester, MN (US);
Joseph Edward Bolan, Morrissville, NC (US);
Thomas M. Brey, Cary, NC (US);
Josep Cors, Rochester, MN (US);
Gregory William Dake, Durham, NC (US);
Scott Neil Dunham, Raleigh, NC (US);
William Gavin Holland, Cary, NC (US);
Theodore Brian Vojnovich, Cary, NC (US);
Jesse Paul Arroyo, Rochester, MN (US);
Joseph Edward Bolan, Morrissville, NC (US);
Thomas M. Brey, Cary, NC (US);
Josep Cors, Rochester, MN (US);
Gregory William Dake, Durham, NC (US);
Scott Neil Dunham, Raleigh, NC (US);
William Gavin Holland, Cary, NC (US);
Theodore Brian Vojnovich, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for deploying sensitive communication parameters to a diskless computing device. A parameter structure module is included to store one or more Internet Small Computer System Interface ('iSCSI') communication parameters in an extendable data structure configured to store a set of basic parameter settings and a set of extended parameter settings. A link module is included to establish a secure link to a diskless computing device over a physically secure connection. A deployment module is included to deploy the extendable data structure over the secure connection to a non-volatile memory in the diskless computing device. The non-volatile memory is configured to provide sensitive iSCSI communication parameters provided by the extendable data structure to a CPU of the diskless computing device during a boot sequence.