Cloning of firmware configuration settings using rest over IPMI interface
AssigneeAmerican Megatrends International, LLC
InventorsIgor Kulchytskyy, Madhan B. Santharam, Chandrasekar Rathineswaran, Harikrishna Doppalapudi, Purandhar Nallagatla
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Abstract
Technologies are described herein for a representational state transfer (“REST” or “RESTful”) over Intelligent Platform Management Interface (“IPMI”) interface for firmware to baseboard management controller (“BMC”) communication and applications thereof. These applications include, but are not limited to, remote firmware configuration, firmware updates, peripheral device firmware updates, provision of management information such as system inventory data, cloning and batch migration of firmware configuration settings, and firmware integrity monitoring.
Claims17
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- obtaining firmware configuration settings for a first computing system from a baseboard management controller (BMC) of the first computing system, the firmware configuration settings provided by a firmware of the first computing system to the BMC over a first representational state transfer (REST) over intelligent platform management interface (IPMI) interface;
- and
- providing the firmware configuration settings to a BMC of a second computing system, whereby
- the BMC of the second computing system provides the firmware configuration settings to a firmware of the second computing system via a second REST over IPMI interface, and
- the firmware of the second computing system replaces current firmware configuration settings of the second computing system with the firmware configuration settings obtained from the first computing system.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereupon which, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to:
- obtain firmware configuration settings for a first computing system from a baseboard management controller (BMC) of the first computing system, the firmware configuration settings provided by a firmware of the first computing system to the BMC over a first representational state transfer (REST) over intelligent platform management interface (IPMI) interface;
- and
- provide the firmware configuration settings to a BMC of a second computing system, whereby
- the BMC of the second computing system provides the firmware configuration settings to a firmware of the second computing system via a second REST over IPMI interface, and
- the firmware of the second computing system replaces current firmware configuration settings of the second computing system with the firmware configuration settings obtained from the first computing system.
A computing system, comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereupon which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing system to:
- obtain firmware configuration settings for a first computing system from a baseboard management controller (BMC) of the first computing system, the firmware configuration settings provided by a firmware of the first computing system to the BMC over a first representational state transfer (REST) over intelligent platform management interface (IPMI) interface;
- and
- provide the firmware configuration settings to a BMC of a second computing system, whereby
- the BMC of the second computing system provides the firmware configuration settings to a firmware of the second computing system via a second REST over IPMI interface, and
- the firmware of the second computing system replaces current firmware configuration settings of the second computing system with the firmware configuration settings obtained from the first computing system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.