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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2009
James J. Bozek, Bothell, WA (US);
Kellie Francis, Cary, NC (US);
Edward Stanley Suffern, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
James Lee Wooldridge, Fall City, WA (US);
James J. Bozek, Bothell, WA (US);
Kellie Francis, Cary, NC (US);
Edward Stanley Suffern, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
James Lee Wooldridge, Fall City, WA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus and program product for automatically detecting the configuration of a hardware platform, generating the communications necessary to request the correct OS for the platform, authenticating the request at a remote server, detecting the image class based on a class node policy, and downloading the correct OS to the requesting platform while avoiding any necessity of inventorying or entering node-specific information such as a MAC (Media Access Control) address or UUID (Universally Unique Identifier).