公开(公告)号：US11831506B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-28

申请号：US17727203

申请日：2022-04-22

申请人： Dell Products L.P.

发明人： Jon Vernon Franklin ,  Chien Lin Lee ,  Jun Gu ,  Alaric Joaquim Narcissius Silveira

IPC分类号： H04L41/084 ,  H04L61/5014 ,  H04L12/18

CPC分类号： H04L41/084 ,  H04L12/18 ,  H04L61/5014

摘要： A disclosed touchless provisioning method configures a baseboard management controller (BMC) of a bare metal server to include or support two or more network services for retrieving a configuration profile locator (CPL) identifying a network-accessible configuration file containing a server configuration profile (SCP). At least one of the network services may be invoked to retrieve the CPL and pass the CPL to a provisioning agent process configured to access the configuration file and configure the system in accordance with the SCP. The server may require a static IP address and the two or more network services may include at least one network service, such as a multicast domain name service (mDNS), suitable for use in conjunction with a static IP address system and at least one network service, such as a DHCP service, suitable for use in conjunction with servers that do not require a static IP address.