Edge configuration aware license key
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorShibi Panikkar
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Abstract
Edge configuration aware license key generation is presented herein. An example method comprises, in response to downloading an intelligent activation key, instantiating an edge configuration engine comprising a listening process and a configuration process, creating and associating a license file vault instance with the edge configuration engine, initiating the listening process, and based on the listening process detecting that a change has occurred with the license file vault, initiating the configuration process, wherein the configuration process configures edge computing equipment to retrieve enabling data used to activate a product associated with the intelligent activation key and enumerated in the license file vault.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- in response to receiving, from original equipment manufacturer networking equipment, notification to download an intelligent activation key, downloading the intelligent activation key;
- and
- activating the intelligent activation key, wherein the activating of the intelligent activation key facilitates:
- starting, on edge computing equipment, an edge configuration engine comprising a listening process and a configuration process, and creating and associating a license file vault instance with the edge configuration engine, wherein the edge configuration engine is a virtual machine instantiation operational on the edge computing equipment associated with a dark site networking operator entity;
- initiating, on the edge computing equipment, the listening process;
- and
- in response to the listening process detecting an occurrence representing a change to the license file vault instance, initiating, on the edge computing equipment, the configuration process.
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a device comprising one or more processors, a notification trigger to download an intelligent activation key;
- in response to the notification trigger, downloading, by the device, the intelligent activation key;
- and
- activating, by the device, the intelligent activation key, wherein the activating of the intelligent activation key facilitates:
- starting, on edge computing equipment associated with a dark site equipment operator entity, an edge configuration engine comprising a listening process and a configuration process, and creating and associating a license file vault instance with the edge configuration engine;
- initiating, on the edge computing equipment, the listening process;
- and
- in response to the listening process detecting an occurrence representing a change to the license file vault instance, initiating, on the edge computing equipment, the configuration process.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions that, in response to execution, cause a system comprising at least one processor to perform operations, comprising:
- in response to downloading an intelligent activation key, instantiating an edge configuration engine comprising a listening process and a configuration process;
- creating and associating a license file vault instance with the edge configuration engine;
- initiating the listening process;
- and
- based on the listening process detecting that a change has occurred with the license file vault, initiating the configuration process, wherein the configuration process configures edge computing equipment to retrieve enabling data used to activate a product associated with the intelligent activation key and enumerated in the license file vault, wherein the edge configuration engine is a virtual machine instantiation operational on edge computing equipment associated with a dark site networking operator entity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.