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AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsRama Rao Bisa, Mini Thottunkal Thankappan, Vineeth Radhakrishnan, Dharma Bhushan Ramaiah, Shinose Abdul Rahiman, A Anis Ahmed, Jason Matthew Young
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Systems and methods are provided for validation and enforcement of the use of factory-provisioned boot restrictions for the operation of an (Information Handling Systems). During factory provisioning of the IHS, a factory-signed certificate is uploaded to the IHS that identifies the factory-installed hardware of the IHS and any boot restrictions on individual factory-installed hardware, such as restrictions on a hardware component to boot using only factory-provision firmware or the component is to be disabled. Upon deployment of the IHS, validation procedures use an inventory from the certificate to validate the detected IHS hardware as factory-installed. The validation procedures use the boot restriction from the certificate to confirm the detected IHS hardware components are each configured for operation according to the boot restrictions.
An Information Handling System (IHS) that comprises:
A method for validating operation of hardware of an Information Handling System (IHS), the method comprising:
A computer-readable storage device that comprises instructions stored thereon for validation of operation of hardware of an Information Handling System (IHS), wherein execution of the instructions by one or more processors of the IHS causes a validation process of the IHS to:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.