System and method for configurable device management
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorJeffrey James Demoss
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Abstract
Methods and systems for managing configurable devices are disclosed. A configurable device may be a type of hardware device that may be configured for various purposes. The operation of the configurable device may depend on its configuration. To manage the configurable device, the system may track the configuration of configurable devices and associate the configurations with visual indicators of the configurable devices that are present prior to configuration. The visual indicators may not indicate the configuration of the configurable devices.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method for managing a configurable device, the method comprising:
- obtaining, by a client, an identifier for the configurable device from an enclosure of the configurable device;
- obtaining, by the client, configuration information for the configurable device using the identifier;
- generating, based on the configuration information, a graphical element that comprises the configuration information shown in textual form within the generated graphical element;
- updating, based on the graphical element, an image of the enclosure based on the identifier present in the image to obtain an updated image;
- and
- after the image is updated, displaying the updated image on a display.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations for managing a configurable device, the operations comprising:
- obtaining, by a client, an identifier for the configurable device from an enclosure of the configurable device;
- obtaining, by the client, configuration information for the configurable device using the identifier;
- generating, based on the configuration information, a graphical element that comprises the configuration information shown in textual form within the generated graphical element;
- updating, based on the graphical element, an image of the enclosure based on the identifier present in the image to obtain an updated image;
- and
- after the image is updated, displaying the updated image on a display.
A client, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory coupled to the processor to store instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations for managing a configurable device, the operations comprising:
- obtaining an identifier for the configurable device from an enclosure of the configurable device;
- obtaining configuration information for the configurable device using the identifier;
- generating, based on the configuration information, a graphical element that comprises the configuration information shown in textual form within the generated graphical element;
- updating, based on the graphical element, an image of the enclosure based on the identifier present in the image to obtain an updated image;
- and
- after the image is updated, displaying the updated image on a display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.