Remote network device provisioning
AssigneeBroadcom Corporation
InventorsSimon Assouad, Hemal Shah
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Abstract
Various embodiments are disclosed relating to remote network device provisioning. A method is disclosed, the method comprising discovering a network address associated with a device on a network based on a discovery response received in response to a discovery request provided to the device. One or more configurable boot options associated with the device may be determined based at least in part on the discovery response. One or more of the configurable boot options may be configured on the device, wherein, upon reboot of the device using the configured boot options, a software image is provided to the device.
Claims14
A method comprising:
- sending, from a server to a network address, a discovery request inquiring whether a device has at least one remotely configurable boot option;
- receiving, at the server, a response from the device having the network address, wherein the response indicates whether the device has at least one remotely configurable boot option;
- if the response indicates that the device has at least one remotely configurable boot option, automatically remotely configuring, by the server, the at least one remotely configurable boot option of the device so that the device boots to an image server;
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- configuring, by the image server, a software image on the device upon reboot of the device based on the at least one remotely configured boot option.
An apparatus comprising:
- a discovery server configured to:
- send a discovery request to a network address, the discovery request inquiring whether at least one boot option of a device is remotely configurable;
- and
- receive a response from the device having the network address, wherein the response indicates whether at least one boot option of the device is remotely configurable;
- and
- a boot configuration server configured to automatically remotely configure the at least one configurable boot option of the device if the response indicates that the device has at least one configurable boot option, the at least one configurable boot option comprising an option to cause the device to boot to a provisioning server and cause the device to receive a provisioning software image from the provisioning server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.