Providing hardware updates in a software environment

摘要

A provisioning server can remotely determine target machines, requiring a hardware update, and remotely provide the hardware updates to the target machines. The provisioning server can identify hardware updates for target machines in a network it serves. The provisioning server can operate in conjunction with a network management server in order to identify the target machines, requiring the hardware update. The provisioning server can generate the hardware update for the target machines and provide the hardware update to the target machines.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
identifying, at a provisioning server, a hardware update for a network of target machines; instructing a network management server to query the network of target machines to:
identify, by the network management server, a target machine comprising a hardware component associated with the hardware update, anddetermine, by the network management server, that the hardware component of the identified target machine requires the hardware update by determining the hardware component of the identified target machine does not comprise the hardware update; receiving, from the network management server, an identification comprising at least one of a network identifier of the identified target machine or a network address of the identified target machine; providing a command to the identified target machine for retrieving and initiating the hardware update; providing the hardware update to the identified target machine over a network connection in the network; and sending an instruction to alter a power state of the identified target machine.