System and method for automated deployment of an information handling system

• US 8,380,761 B2
• Filed: 06/16/2011
• Issued: 02/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Johnson, Jeremiah, Oates, Steve, Stonecipher, Kurt, Bomsta, Greg, Hanes, Kevin
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, DEBBIE M
• Application Number:
  US13/162,007
• Publication Number:
  US 20110252072A1
• Time in Patent Office: 614 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 707/804
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A system and method for automated deployment of an information handling system are disclosed. A method for managing the deployment of an information handling system may include executing a deployment application on an information handling system, the deployment application including one or more tasks associated with the deployment of the information handling system. The method may further include automatically determining for a particular task whether an execution time for the particular task is within a predetermined range of execution times. The method may further include automatically performing an error-handling task in response to determining that the execution time for the particular task is not within the predetermined range of execution times.

Claims

1. An article of manufacture, comprising:

a computer readable medium; and

computer-executable instructions carried on the computer readable medium, the instructions readable by a processor, the instructions, when read and executed, for causing the processor to;

receive identifying information from a source local to an information handling system, the identifying information identifying a particular one of a plurality of profiles;

automatically identify the particular profile associated with the information handling system based on at least the identifying information received from the local source;

automatically access the database to;

access available profile information associated with the particular profile; and

identify unavailable supplemental profile information associated with the particular profile for deploying the information handling system;

automatically generate a customized user interface for inputting the supplemental profile information unavailable to the database, the customized user interface being customized based on at least the unavailable supplemental profile information;

receive the supplemental profile information via the customized user interface; and

automatically deploy the information handling system based on at least one of the identifying information, the profile information accessed from the database, and the supplemental profile information received via the customized user interface.

2. An article according to claim 1, wherein the identifying information includes at least one of:

a name of a particular class of end users, a name of a particular end user, a username of the particular end user, an identification number of the particular end user, a serial number of the information handling system, and a service code of the information handling system.

3. An article according to claim 1, wherein the database is stored on a computer-readable medium local to the information handling system.

4. An article according to claim 1, the instructions further operable to, as part of automatically performing the task, automatically deploying selected data from a deployment container stored on computer-readable media local to the information handling system, the selected data based on at least one of the identifying information, the profile information accessed from the database, and the supplemental profile information received via the customized user interface.

5. An article according to claim 4, the instructions further operable to automatically install and automatically configure an operating system on the computer-readable media based on at least one of the identifying information, the profile information accessed from the database, and the supplemental profile information received via the customized user interface.

6. An article according to claim 4, the instructions further operable to automatically install and automatically configure at least one application program on the computer-readable media based on at least one of the identifying information, the profile information accessed from the database, and the supplemental profile information received via the customized user interface.

7. An article system according to claim 4, wherein the deployment container comprises a Windows Imaging Format (WIM) file.