Providing system inventory data from a firmware to a baseboard management controller using an identifier

A computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereupon which, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to:

• generate a request for combined inventory data for a managed computing system, the request generated by a firmware of the managed computing system to an identifier exposed by a baseboard management controller (BMC);
• receive the combined inventory data for the managed computing system at the firmware of the managed computing system in response to the request;
• perform an inventory of the managed computing system to obtain updated inventory data for the managed computing system;
• determine if the updated inventory data and the combined inventory data are identical;
• responsive to determining that the updated inventory data and the combined inventory data are not identical, generate new combined inventory data for the managed computing system;
• and
• post the new combined inventory data for the managed computing system to the identifier exposed by the BMC.

A computing system, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• a memory storing a firmware executable on the processors;
• a baseboard management controller (BMC);
• and
• at least one computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereupon which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing system to:
• generate a request for combined inventory data for the computing system, the request generated by the firmware to an identifier exposed by the BMC;
• receive the combined inventory data for the computing system at the firmware in response to the request;
• perform an inventory of the managed computing system to obtain updated inventory data for the computing system;
• determine if the updated inventory data and the combined inventory data are identical;
• responsive to determining that the updated inventory data and the combined inventory data are not identical, generate new combined inventory data for the computing system;
• and
• post the new combined inventory data for the computing system to the identifier exposed by the BMC.