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Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2015

Filed:

Jul. 08, 2010
Applicants:

Michael V. Dvorkin, Redwood City, CA (US);

Tao Wang, Cupertino, CA (US);

Dmitry Barsky, San Jose, CA (US);

Krishna Mohan, Fremont, CA (US);

Chidananda Satya Kumar Patchava, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Michael V. Dvorkin, Redwood City, CA (US);

Tao Wang, Cupertino, CA (US);

Dmitry Barsky, San Jose, CA (US);

Krishna Mohan, Fremont, CA (US);

Chidananda Satya Kumar Patchava, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/177 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 9/445 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/445 (2013.01); G06F 9/44505 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques presented herein provide approaches for generating a markup language object that describes a variety of BIOS setup variables and which allow the markup language object to be passed to the management system, as well as allow retrieval of a normalized BIOS from the management system. Doing so allows the management system to be used to easily and efficiently control a large number of server systems within a data center.


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