Platform discovery, asset inventory, configuration, and...

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2008-09-29

2011-10-18

Etienne, Ario (Department: 2457)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Network computer configuring

Initializing

Reexamination Certificate

active

08041794

ABSTRACT:
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for initializing a common information model (CIM) broker and a SLP service agent of a system in a pre-boot environment, transmitting a multicast request and receiving a unicast advertisement from a directory agent, registering a web-based enterprise management (WBEM) service to the directory agent, and configuring, provisioning, and/or performing asset inventory of the system in the pre-boot environment responsive to information from a resource manager. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

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