System and method for automating bios firmware image...

Details System and method for automating bios firmware image... System and method for automating bios firmware image...

2004-04-07

2010-10-05

Patel, Haresh N (Department: 2154)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Computer-to-computer session/connection establishing

C713S002000, C713S100000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07809836

ABSTRACT:
An embodiment of the present invention is a system and method relating to automatic firmware image update by proxy for BIOS or other embedded firmware image. When a server equipped with a baseboard management controller (BMC) and detects that its BIOS code image is corrupted or out of date, it may broadcast a request for an image update over an out-of-band network. One or more donor systems on the network may respond to the request and send the requestor a new image. The recipient system uses management policies to determine from which donor system to accept an update. In another embodiment, the BMC retrieves a new BIOS image from a predetermined location and updates the BIOS image accordingly.

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