Remote management of UEFI BIOS settings and configuration

摘要

In an information handling system (IHS), remote management of basic input/output system (BIOS) settings and configuration includes maintaining a BIOS setting/configuration database, providing an application to communicate a BIOS setting/configuration from the database to a BIOS system, determining whether the BIOS setting/configuration communicated from the database to the BIOS system is a special BIOS configuration capsule packet, and validating BIOS setting/configuration.

主权项

1. A method for updating basic input/output system (BIOS) settings and configuration on an Information Handling System (IHS), comprising:
providing an IHS including at least one processor and at least one non-transitory memory that stores instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to provide a BIOS and an operating system (OS) including an OS application; receiving BIOS setting/configuration change data for the BIOS by the OS application and providing the BIOS setting/configuration change data in a special BIOS configuration capsule packet; communicating the special BIOS configuration capsule packet by the OS application to an OS device driver while running in an environment of the OS; passing the special BIOS configuration capsule packet from the OS device driver to a capsule runtime service driver as a special capsule data packet; determining, by the capsule runtime service driver, that the special capsule data packet is a special BIOS configuration capsule packet; and validating the BIOS setting/configuration change data for the BIOS in the special BIOS configuration capsule packet against currently used BIOS setting/configuration data being used by the BIOS.