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Firmware management method and apparatus

A management method and technology for managing devices, applied in the field of firmware management methods and devices, can solve problems such as poor maintainability and imperfect firmware management functions, and achieve the effects of improving functions, realizing automated management, and simplifying management processes

Active Publication Date: 2017-07-25
ZTE CORP
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[0009] The main purpose of the present invention is to provide a firmware management method and device, aiming to solve the technical problems of imperfect firmware management functions and poor maintainability

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[0063] It should be understood that the specific embodiments described here are only used to explain the present invention, not to limit the present invention.

[0064] The main solution of the embodiment of the present invention is: the baseboard management controller virtualizes the pre-configured firmware management image file into a virtual startup system, and attaches it to the host; modify the startup mode configuration of the host, and the modified host starts The mode configuration is associated with the virtual boot system; the host is controlled to boot from the virtual boot system according to the modified boot mode configuration, and load the firmware management image file for firmware management.

[0065] Due to the complex firmware sintering and update process in the existing technology, the degree of manual participation is high, the degree of automation is low, the maintainability is poor, and the backup and management of all firmware configuration data cannot b...

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The invention discloses a firmware management method. The method comprises the steps of virtualizing a pre-configured firmware management mirror image file into a virtual startup system by a baseboard management controller, and hooking the virtual startup system to a host; modifying startup mode configuration of the host, and associating the modified startup mode configuration of the host with the virtual startup system; controlling the host to be started from the virtual startup system according to the modified startup mode configuration, and loading the firmware management mirror image file to perform firmware management. The invention furthermore discloses a firmware management apparatus. According to the method and the apparatus, the functions of server firmware management are perfected, the management process is simplified, automated management of server firmware is realized, and the maintainability of the server firmware is improved.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the technical field of firmware management, in particular to a firmware management method and device. Background technique [0002] A server is a device that provides computing services, and is mainly composed of hardware devices such as a central processing unit (CPU, Central Processing Unit), storage devices, memory, and I / O (Input / Output, input / output) devices. In hardware devices, firmware acts as the software for the most basic and bottom-level work of a system. The CPU is the computing core and control core of a computer, and the memory is used to store program computing data. The normal use of CPU and memory does not depend on specific firmware. However, input and output devices such as storage devices, network cards, and graphics cards generally need to be sintered with specific firmware, such as graphics card firmware, network card firmware, and SAS (Serial Attached SCSI, serial SCSI technology) controller fi...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06F9/44
CPCG06F9/4411G06F9/44
Inventor 徐东熊先奎郑旭锋张景涛
Owner ZTE CORP
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