39 results about "Vital Product Data" patented technology

A system and method are provided to allow a user to update a computer system without having to interact with an initiation, or configuration software utility, or program. More particularly, the present invention allows a system provider, manufacturer, or service provider to create an installation file that, when provided to a user, will configure a system to accommodate newly added / removed hardware automatically. A base model and a new model of the system are maintained. The new model will include one or more different configurations, such as new graphics adapters, communications adapters, I / O controllers, or the like. The provider will have created a recovery / install image to be used with the base model. An operating system including a configurator program will be running on both the base model system and new model system. Software, such as device drivers, to be used with the new model's changed hardware configuration is installed on the new model system and initialized using its configurator program. A file for the new model is created using vital product data for the base model system. This new model configuration file is the installed on the base model machine and its configurator program is run. The configuration information (including the new model configuration data) is then stored as a system image and a script file is added to this system image. This new model image is then made available to end users, by a CD or the like, having a new model system. The script file in the new model image will specify a start priority that will allow it to be called before the configurator program and it will proceed to initialize the system with the appropriate software captured from the system provider's new model machine.

A computer processor subsystem, e.g. called a “target”, in response to receiving an update to vital product data of the system from a source computer processor subsystem, examines the update to detect the vital product data of the target computer processor subsystem stored by the source computer processor subsystem; and, in response to the detected vital product data being incorrect, the target computer processor subsystem forwards its correct vital product data to the source computer processor subsystem having the incorrect vital product data. A computer processor subsystem is the authoritative reference for its vital product data.

An approach is provided in which an information handling system detects a reduced capacity on a PCIe link that interfaces a host system to a PCIe I / O expansion drawer over a first / second physical cable. The information handling system verifies a first / second connection to a first / second connector on the PCIe I / O expansion drawer, receives a first / second set of vital product data over the first / second physical cable, and determines that the first physical cable and the second physical cable are connected to the same PCIe I / O expansion drawer based on analyzing the first / second set of vital product data. The information handling system then suspends operation of one or more components corresponding to the PCIe link and trains the PCIe link to an increased capacity. In turn, the information handling system resumes operation of the one or more components and restores the PCIe link to the increased capacity.