COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF INSTALLING HARDWARE SPECIFICATION FILES IN HOSTS

摘要

A method creates a plurality of host hardware specification (HHS) files for hosts with different hardware specifications, and stores the HHS files in a storage device. The method further monitors a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server and checks if the DHCP server has allocated an IP address to any new created host. If the DHCP server has allocated an IP address to a host, the method accesses the new created host based on the newly allocated IP address, and obtains a hardware specification of the host. Furthermore, the method determines an HHS file for the new created host according to the hardware specification of the host, and remotely controls the installment of the HHS file in the new created host.

主权项

1. A method being executed by a processor of a computing device, the method comprising:
creating one or more host hardware specification (HHS) files according to one or more hardware specifications of one or more hosts, and storing the one or more HHS files into a storage device; periodically querying a dynamical host configuration protocol (DHCP) server, and checking if the DHCP server has newly allocated an IP address to a host; on condition that the DHCP server has newly allocated an IP address to the host, accessing the host according to the IP address allocated to the host by the DHCP server, and obtaining a hardware specification of the host; determining if the hardware specification of the host is new by querying the one or more HHS files stored in the storage device; reading a matching HHS file from the storage device in response to a determination that the hardware specification of the host is not new, or creating an HHS file for the host according to the hardware specification of the host in response to a determination that the hardware specification of the host is new; and distributing the HHS file to the host via a network, and remotely controlling installment of the HHS file in the host.