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US 12,585,475 B2Granted
Automated boot image configuration and booting via a baseboard management controller in response to an unsolicited boot image
AssigneeRed Hat, Inc.
InventorsJacob Anders, Dmitry Tantsur
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Abstract
A baseboard management controller (BMC) communicatively coupled to a computing device receives, from a provisioning computing device, an unsolicited boot image. The BMC stores the boot image in a volatile memory. In response to receiving the boot image, the BMC causes the computing device to boot from the boot image.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a baseboard management controller (BMC) communicatively coupled to a computing device, from a provisioning computing device, an unsolicited boot image via a push mechanism of the provisioning computing device, the unsolicited boot image being unsolicited from the perspective of the BMC;
- storing, by the BMC, the unsolicited boot image in a volatile memory;
- and
- in response to receiving the unsolicited boot image via the push mechanism, causing, by the BMC, the computing device to boot from the unsolicited boot image.
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A baseboard management controller (BMC), comprising:
- circuitry operable to:
- receive, from a provisioning computing device, an unsolicited boot image via a push mechanism of the provisioning computing device, the unsolicited boot image being unsolicited from a perspective of the BMC;
- store the unsolicited boot image in a volatile memory;
- and
- in response to receiving the unsolicited boot image via the push mechanism, cause a computing device managed by the BMC to boot from the unsolicited boot image.
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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that includes executable instructions to cause a baseboard management controller (BMC) to:
- receive, from a provisioning computing device, an unsolicited boot image via a push mechanism of the provisioning computing device, the unsolicited boot image being unsolicited from a perspective of the BMC;
- store the unsolicited boot image in a volatile memory;
- and
- in response to receiving the unsolicited boot image via the push mechanism, cause a computing device managed by the BMC to boot from the unsolicited boot image.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.