| 摘要 |
NETWORK SWITCHES (20) OF AN INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM ARE AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED BY A PXE AGENT (26) ASSOCIATED WITH EACH NETWORK SWITCH (20), SUCH AS A PXE AGENT (26) EMBEDDED IN FIRMWARE OF EACH NETWORK SWITCH (20). THE PXE AGENT (26) AUTOMATICALLY REQUESTS A CONFIGURATION IMAGE (42) DURING BOOT OF THE NETWORK SWITCH (20) AND RE-CONFIGURES THE NETWORK SWITCH (20) WITH CONFIGURATION IMAGE (42). FOR INSTANCE, THE PXE AGENT (26) REQUESTS CONFIGURATION SERVICE (40) FROM A PXE SERVER (28), WHICH DIRECTS A TFTP SERVER (44) TO DOWNLOAD THE CONFIGURATION IMAGE (42) TO THE NETWORK SWITCH (20). IN ONE EMBODIMENT, A BLADE SERVER (10) HAS PLURAL SERVER BLADES (16) SUPPORTED IN PLURAL CHASSIS (14) WITH EACH CHASSIS HAVING ONE OR MORE SWITCHES (20). EACH SWITCH (20) HAS A PXE AGENT (26) SO THAT THE SWITCHES (20) OF THE BLADE SERVER (10) ARE AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED (60) WITH THE SAME CONFIGURATION IMAGE (42). ALTERNATIVELY, SELECTED CONFIGURATION FACTORS, SUCH AS A STATIC IP ADDRESS, ARE INDIVIDUALLY CONFIGURED (58) BY REFERENCE TO A UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION, SUCH AS A UNIVERSAL UNIQUE IDENTIFIER.(FIG 1)
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