Transaction based server configuration management system and method therefor
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsMayur Bhosle, Prakash Nara
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Abstract
A request to perform a system configuration operation at an information handling system is received at a service processor included at the information handling system. The service processor determines that the configuration operation completed successfully and prepares an abstraction of the system configuration operation that can be used to replicate the system configuration operation at another information handling system. The abstraction is provided to a coordinating processor. The coordinating processor generates an identifier that uniquely identifies the abstraction and provides the identifier to the service processor. The service processor stores the identifier.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving a first request at a first processor at a first information handling system, the first request to perform a first system configuration operation at the first information handling system;
- determining, by the first processor, whether the first system configuration operation completed successfully;
- providing a first abstraction to a second processor, the first abstraction providing information to enable a third processor at a second information handling system to perform the first system configuration operation at the second information handling system;
- receiving a first identifier from the second processor, the first identifier generated by the second processor and uniquely identifying the first abstraction;
- and
- storing the first identifier at the first processor.
A method comprising:
- receiving a notification at a first processor from a second processor at a first information handling system, the notification indicating whether a first system configuration operation completed successfully at the first information handling system;
- if the notification includes a first identifier:
- associating the first identifier with the second processor to indicate that the second processor completed the first system configuration operation;
- and
- if the notification includes a first abstraction:
- generating the first identifier, the first identifier uniquely identifying the first abstraction;
- providing the first identifier to the second processor;
- storing the first abstraction at the first processor;
- and
- associating the first identifier with the second processor to indicate that the second processor completed the first system configuration operation;
- wherein the first abstraction provides information to enable a third processor at a second information handling system to perform the first system configuration operation at the second information handling system.
A system comprising:
- a provisioning server;
- a first information handling system including a first processor, the first processor configured to:
- receive a first request to perform a first system configuration operation at the first information handling system;
- determine whether the first system configuration operation completed successfully;
- provide a first abstraction to a second processor at the provisioning server, the first abstraction providing information to enable a third processor at a second information handling system to perform the first system configuration operation at the second information handling system;
- receive a first identifier from the second processor, the first identifier generated by the second processor and uniquely identifying the first abstraction;
- and
- storing the first identifier at the first processor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.