Infrastructure configuration and inventory manager

Abstract

A configuration management resource manages the solution-level configuration of an infrastructure that includes a plurality of deployed information handling resources. The management resource has access to a master manifest, corresponding to the solution infrastructure, that identifies one or more baselined configurations of the solution infrastructure. The master manifest may include a resource type identifier corresponding to each resource deployed in the infrastructure. For each resource type, the manifest may identify all compliance-capable resources, one or more baselined components for each of said resources, and one or more baseline-required attributes for each of said components. The management resource may register resource specific plugins to implement a standard set of REST-compliant methods. The management resource may determine the current configuration of deployed infrastructure, validate the current configuration against baseline configurations identified in the manifest, and incorporate a point in time configuration as a versioned baseline in master manifest.

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