Method, apparatus and program product for provisioning a computer system

A method, apparatus and program product for automatically detecting the configuration of a hardware platform, generating the communications necessary to request the correct OS for the platform, authenticating the request at a remote server, detecting the image class based on a class node policy, and...

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Hauptverfasser: Bozek, James J, Francis, Kellie, Suffern, Edward Stanley, Wooldridge, James Lee
Format: Patent
Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:A method, apparatus and program product for automatically detecting the configuration of a hardware platform, generating the communications necessary to request the correct OS for the platform, authenticating the request at a remote server, detecting the image class based on a class node policy, and downloading the correct OS to the requesting platform while avoiding any necessity of inventorying or entering node-specific information such as a MAC (Media Access Control) address or UUID (Universally Unique Identifier).