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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2006
Paul E. Finkelstein, Naperville, IL (US);
Susan M. Guy, Concord, NC (US);
Rajeev Puri, Charlotte, NC (US);
Hsiao C. Thio, Palatine, IL (US);
Nelson Velazquez, Chicago, IL (US);
Paul E. Finkelstein, Naperville, IL (US);
Susan M. Guy, Concord, NC (US);
Rajeev Puri, Charlotte, NC (US);
Hsiao C. Thio, Palatine, IL (US);
Nelson Velazquez, Chicago, IL (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Generally speaking, systems, methods and media for updating device drivers of an operating system for a server computer system are disclosed. Embodiments may include a method for updating device drivers for a server computer system by a build server. Embodiments of the method may include determining whether device drivers for an operating system image source need to be updated, such as by crawling a vendor website. Embodiments may also include in response to determining that device driver updates need to be downloaded, scheduling a time for download of device driver updates. Embodiments of the method may also include downloading the scheduled device driver updates based on the scheduled time and storing the device driver updates in a device driver update database. Further embodiments of the method may include installing the operating system image source on a target server and installing the device driver updates on the target server.