Flash memory-hosted local and remote out-of-service platform manageability

摘要

A method, apparatus, and system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method determines whether one or more manageability conditions are present in a computer system, and then invokes an out-of-service manageability remediation environment stored within a portion of a flash device in the computer system when one or more manageability conditions are present.

主权项

1. A computer system, comprising:
a processor; a system memory; a manageability condition detection unit to determine whether one or more manageability conditions are present in a computer system; a local out-of-service manageability remediation environment stored within a portion of a flash device in the computer system wherein the local out-of-service manageability remediation environment is different from a host operating system of the computer system and is configured to locally diagnose one or more host operating system problems that created the manageability condition and locally attempt to repair the one or more diagnosed host operating system problems; and an out-of-service manageability invocation unit to:
attempt to load, in response to one or more manageability conditions being present, an out-of-service manageability remediation environment, the out-of-service manageability remediation environment comprising one of:
(i) the local out-of-service manageability remediation environment; or(ii) a remote out-of-service manageability remediation environment stored external to the computing system, wherein the remote out-of-service manageability remediation environment is different from the host operating system of the computer system and is configured to diagnose the one or more host operating system problems that created the manageability condition and attempt to repair the one or more diagnosed host operating system problems;determine whether the out-of-service manageability remediation environment has failed to load;in response to a determination that the out-of-service manageability remediation environment has failed to load, attempt to load (i) the local out-of-service manageability remediation environment in response to a determination that the remote out-of-service manageability remediation environment has failed to load or (ii) the remote out-of-service manageability remediation environment in response a determination that the local out-of-service manageability remediation environment has failed to load; andreboot the computer system under the control of the host operating system in response to the one or more diagnosed host operating system problems being repaired by the local out-of-service manageability remediation environment or the remote out-of-service manageability remediation environment.