公开(公告)号：US10956143B2

公开(公告)日：2021-03-23

申请号：US15833666

申请日：2017-12-06

Applicant: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP

Inventor： Suhas Shivanna ,  John Harsany ,  Peter Hansen

IPC: G06F8/65

Abstract: A method disclosed herein relates to determining an inventory of a plurality of servers based on unique fingerprints and common fingerprints; creating a common set of installed firmware and a plurality of unique sets of installed firmware based on the inventory of the plurality of servers; creating subcategory sets of installed firmware based on the common set of installed firmware and categories of components included in the plurality of servers; obtaining updated versions of firmware corresponding to the subcategory sets of installed firmware and the unique sets of installed firmware; in response to an update request, creating containers for the updated versions of firmware corresponding to the subcategory sets of the installed firmware and the unique sets of installed firmware; and sending update messages to the plurality of servers including links to the respective containers.

公开(公告)号：US20190171436A1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-06

申请号：US15833666

申请日：2017-12-06

Applicant: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP

Inventor： Suhas Shivanna ,  John Harsany ,  Peter Hansen

IPC: G06F8/65

Abstract: A method disclosed herein relates to determining an inventory of a plurality of servers based on unique fingerprints and common fingerprints; creating a common set of installed firmware and a plurality of unique sets of installed firmware based on the inventory of the plurality of servers; creating subcategory sets of installed firmware based on the common set of installed firmware and categories of components included in the plurality of servers; obtaining updated versions of firmware corresponding to the subcategory sets of installed firmware and the unique sets of installed firmware; in response to an update request, creating containers for the updated versions of firmware corresponding to the subcategory sets of the installed firmware and the unique sets of installed firmware; and sending update messages to the plurality of servers including links to the respective containers.