Abstract:
A process includes, responsive to a computer platform being controlled by an operating system installation service that is remote with respect to the computer platform, retrieving, by the computer platform, an agent image, and booting, by the computer platform, to the agent image to launch a local agent that is executed on the computer platform. The process includes assisting, by the local agent, an installation of an operating system on the computer platform. The assisting includes accessing, by the local agent, an operating system installation image and generating an answer file to configure installation of the operating system using the operating system installation image.
Abstract:
Example implementations relate to method and system for an action contextual grouping of servers for applying one or more actions to each group. The method includes analyzing data corresponding to a plurality of servers and a management system to generate a dataset including contextual data and server features. The method further includes obtaining a plurality of actions from the management system, and mapping each action to a plurality of criteria to generate an action criteria table. The plurality of criteria includes dynamic contextual criteria derived by the management system based on at least some of contextual data. The method further includes comparing the plurality of criteria for each action in the action criteria table to the contextual data and/or the server features for each server to tag a corresponding server to the action, and grouping the plurality of servers into a plurality of action contextual groups based on the tag.
Abstract:
Techniques for on-demand remote diagnostics for hardware component/device failure and disk drive data recovery using embedded media are described. In one example embodiment, a hardware device failure event alert along with a unique ID and a hardware device configuration fingerprint is sent upon detecting a hardware component failure event associated with the hardware device in a datacenter to an image management framework. A recovery image associated with the hardware device failure event is then obtained using the unique ID and the hardware device configuration fingerprint. The recovery image is then stored in an embedded storage media associated with the failed hardware device. The embedded storage media is then configured as a bootable hardware device. The hardware component failure is then diagnosed using the stored recovery image and the bootable hardware device upon hardware device boot-up. Recovering from the hardware device failure based on diagnosing the hardware component failure.