Technologies for headless server manageability and autonomous logging

A method for system manageability, the method comprising:

• allocating, by a computing device, a frame buffer in a main memory of the computing device, the computing device comprising a host processor for executing a firmware environment;
• loading, by the computing device, a graphics protocol driver to provide the frame buffer to an operating system of the computing device;
• loading, by the computing device, the operating system in response to allocating the frame buffer and loading the graphics protocol driver;
• rendering, by the computing device, a graphical image to the frame buffer in response to providing the frame buffer to the operating system;
• determining, by a manageability controller of the computing device, whether a fatal error of the computing device has occurred;
• reading, by the manageability controller, the graphical image from the frame buffer in response to determining that the fatal error of the computing device has occurred;
• asserting a host reset signal from the host processor to the manageability controller in response to the fatal error;
• determining whether an acknowledgment of the host reset signal has been received from the manageability controller;
• and
• resetting the computing device in response to determining that the acknowledgment of the host reset signal has been received from the manageability controller.

One or more non-transitory, machine-readable storage media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, in response to being executed, cause a computing device to:

• allocate a frame buffer in a main memory of the computing device, wherein the computing device comprises a host processor for executing a firmware environment;
• load a graphics protocol driver to provide the frame buffer to an operating system;
• load the operating system in response to allocating the frame buffer and loading the graphics protocol driver;
• render a graphical image to the frame buffer in response to providing the frame buffer to the operating system;
• determine, by a manageability controller of the computing device, whether a fatal error of the computing device has occurred;
• read, by the manageability controller, the graphical image from the frame buffer in response to determining that the fatal error of the computing device has occurred;
• assert a host reset signal from the host processor to the manageability controller in response to the fatal error;
• determine whether an acknowledgment of the host reset signal has been received from the manageability controller;
• and
• reset the computing device in response to determining that the acknowledgment of the host reset signal has been received from the manageability controller.