Hardware management

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2018246728-A1
Application number	US-201515754186-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Nov 29, 2015
Priority date	Nov 29, 2015
Publication date	Aug 30, 2018
Grant date	—

Abstract

In one example, a non-transitory computer readable medium for hardware management includes instructions to generate an instruction volume by copying a master volume, wherein the instruction volume is a computing device image, execute a set of scripts to alter the instruction volume based on a profile for a computing device, and deploy the instruction volume to the computing device to configure the computing device based on the profile for the computing device.

First claim

What is claimed:

1 . A system for hardware management, comprising:
a profile engine to generate a profile including a deployment plan for a computing device; a plan engine to generate a master volume based on the deployment plan, the master volume being stored in a volume storage; a build engine to generate a copy of the master volume, and to provide a set of scripts to alter the copy of the master volume based on a the deployment plan; and a deployment engine to deploy the altered copy of the master volume to the computing device.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the altered copy of the master volume is stored in the volume storage.

3 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the altered copy of the master volume comprises an operating system boot volume and firmware configuration for the computing device.

4 . The system of claim 3 , wherein the deployment engine is to deploy the altered copy of the master volume to the computing device by deploying the operating system boot volume and firmware configuration to the computing device together.

5 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the build engine is to generate the copy of the master volume and to provide the set of scripts offline from the computing device.

6 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the profile engine is to define a set of user roles and corresponding content of the user roles to generate a profile and deploy the altered copy of the master volume.

7 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the deployment plan defines a set of parameters that are utilized to define the set of scripts.

8 . A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions executable by a processor for hardware management, wherein the instructions are executable to:
generate an instruction volume by copying a master volume, wherein the instruction volume is a computing device image; execute a set of scripts to alter the instruction volume based on a profile for a computing device; and deploy the instruction volume to the computing device to configure the computing device based on the profile for the computing device.

9 . The medium of claim 8 , wherein the instruction volume includes a set of default settings from the master volume and a set of altered settings based on the set of scripts.

10 . The medium of claim 8 , wherein the computing device is booted directly based on the deployed instruction volume.

11 . The medium of claim 8 , wherein generating the instruction volume comprises generating a plurality of instruction volumes for a plurality of different computing devices utilizing a default setting of the master volume.

12 . A method for hardware management, comprising:
generating, at a volume storage, a master volume based on a master image of a computing system; generating, on the volume storage, an instruction volume based on the master volume; altering, via a set of scripts, a set of settings of the instruction volume; and deploying, from the volume storage, the instruction volume to the computing system, wherein the instruction volume provides a system boot volume and firmware configuration for the computing system.

13 . The method of claim 12 , comprising examining a health state of the instruction volume through direct access to the volume storage.

14 . The method of claim 13 , wherein examining a health state comprises examining the instruction volume within the volume storage for malware.

15 . The method of claim 12 , comprising deploying, from the volume storage, the altered instruction volume to a different computing system.

Assignees

• Hewlett Packard Entpr Dev Lp

Inventors

• Adams Aland B
• Fowler Charles E
• Lundeby Bruce A
• Boeker Craig A

Classifications

• G06F9/4401 Primary

  Bootstrapping (security arrangements therefor G06F21/57) · CPC title

• G06F8/63 Primary

  Image based installation; Cloning; Build to order · CPC title

• G06F9/44505

  Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files · CPC title