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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2003
Daryl Carvis Cromer, Apex, NC (US);
Richard Alan Dayan, Raleigh, NC (US);
Joseph Wayne Freeman, Raleigh, NC (US);
Steven Dale Goodman, Raleigh, NC (US);
Eric Richard Kern, Durham, NC (US);
Howard Jeffrey Locker, Cary, NC (US);
Randall Scott Springfield, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Daryl Carvis Cromer, Apex, NC (US);
Richard Alan Dayan, Raleigh, NC (US);
Joseph Wayne Freeman, Raleigh, NC (US);
Steven Dale Goodman, Raleigh, NC (US);
Eric Richard Kern, Durham, NC (US);
Howard Jeffrey Locker, Cary, NC (US);
Randall Scott Springfield, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems and arrangements for remotely selecting a bootable image via a WOL packet for a wake-on-LAN (WOL) capable computer are contemplated. Server-side embodiments include hardware and/or software for determining a client to be managed, determining whether the client is active on the network, and transmitting a WOL packet having a vector, or operating system partition identification (OSPID), to describe a bootable image accessible by the WOL capable computer. Some embodiments may include an OSPID that points to a secure bootable image such as a bootable image on a hard drive, a compact disk (CD) connected to the computer, or other local resource. Client-side embodiments may receive the WOL packet at, for instance, a network interface card (NIC), recognize that the WOL packet includes an OSPID that describes the bootable image to boot, and implement an alternative boot sequence to boot from that bootable image.