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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2009
Michael Paul Dehaan, Morrisville, NC (US);
Adrian Karstan Likins, Raleigh, NC (US);
Seth Kelby Vidal, Raleigh, NC (US);
Michael Paul DeHaan, Morrisville, NC (US);
Adrian Karstan Likins, Raleigh, NC (US);
Seth Kelby Vidal, Raleigh, NC (US);
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
A provisioning server can provide and interact with a firmware tool on target machines. The firmware tool can communicate with the firmware of the target machines and collect data representing the configuration of the firmware of the target machines, independent of the types of the target machines. To communicate independent of the type of target machine, the firmware tool can include a translation library. The translation library enables the firmware tool to receive common instructions for interacting with firmware and convert those common instructions into specific instructions that are compatible with different types of the target machines.