Embodiments of information handling systems (IHS) and computer implemented methods are disclosed herein to restore system firmware to a selected restore point. In one embodiment, the IHS may include a computer readable non-volatile memory configured to store system firmware, a computer readable storage device configured to store an operating system (OS), a system registry, and an OS restore application, and a processing device configured to execute program instructions within the OS restore application to restore the system registry to a selected restore point and reboot the IHS. As the IHS is in the process of being rebooted, the processing device may execute program instructions within a firmware restore application stored within the computer readable non-volatile memory or the computer readable storage device to restore the system firmware to the selected restore point.

A Recovery Maturity Index 1 (RMM) is used to determine whether a particular Information Technology (IT) production environment is relatively mature enough to successfully execute the disaster recovery (DR). The RMI provides a quantitative analysis in terms of a set of categories for elements that characterize the environment and multiple elements for each category. At least some of the elements depend upon the extent to which automation components have been leveraged for disaster recovery. A summation of the scoring elements, which may be a weighted summation, results in an overall quantitative metric. The metric can used to determine whether or not disaster recovery can be expected to be successful.

An information processing device is provided with: a first processing unit that generates first information by performing first processing with respect to sensor information acquired from a sensor; a second processing unit that generates second information by performing, with respect to the first information, second processing that is different from the first processing; and a third processing unit, which generates third information by performing, with respect to the first information, third processing, i.e., processing that corresponds to at least a part of the second processing, and which acquires the second information, and outputs the second information and the third information.

A method of automatic test upon storage devices, connected to user interface of computer apparatus via external connection port(s), includes: providing user interface which can be controlled by user to input at least one set of setting parameters for execution of testing task of at least one test software tool; automatically configuring information of at least one field for the execution of the testing task according to the at least one set of setting parameters; automatically executing the at least one test software tool to perform the testing task upon the multiple storage devices according to the information of the at least one field; and automatically storing result of the testing task and displaying the result on the user interface for user.

Systems and methods for configuration file editing during the execution of the configuration process can include initiating a configuration process using a configuration file referencing a sequence of tasks and receiving a command to edit the configuration file. They can also include, responsive to the receipt of the command, pausing the configuration process and modifying one or more tasks in the sequence of tasks to generate a modified configuration file. They can further include resuming the configuration process using the modified configuration file from a point at which the execution was paused.

Embodiments for providing global inline name space verification for a distributed file system in a network of a metadata server coupled to a plurality of data servers by taking a global dataless snapshot of a namespace of the distributed file system; walking all of the files in the namespace for each data server and the metadata server to generate parsed information; combining, by an XOR operation, the parsed information into data blocks for each server; obtaining a checksum of each data block of the data blocks; comparing actual and expected checksums from the metadata server and all of the data servers; and generating an alert if a comparison of any actual and expected checksums do not match.

Configuration drift from a baseline configuration is autonomously resolved. A baseboard management controller may inspect error and/or failure logs to determine system parameters at times of error/failure. The baseboard management controller may compare the system parameters to the baseline configuration. The baseboard management controller may have authority to autonomously change any of the system values to resolve a configuration drift from the baseline configuration.

Described embodiments provide systems and methods for executing a plurality of validation tests to validate a plurality of microservices of one or more services. A device intermediary to a plurality of microservices of one or more services identifies a plurality of validation tests, each of the validation tests configured with a timeline, a target microservice and one of a synthetic error or a latency to implement to validate the target microservice. The device executes a first validation test of the plurality of validation tests to implement, over a first timeline, one of a first synthetic error or a first latency in responding to a first target microservice of the plurality of microservices. The device executes a second validation test of the plurality of validation tests to implement, over a second timeline, one of a second synthetic error or a second latency in responding to a second target microservice of the plurality of microservices. The device validates, responsive to executing each of the plurality of validation tests, the plurality of microservices of the one or more services.

An automotive control system includes a safety processor and a system-on-a-chip. The SoC includes a primary processor, a safety monitor, first and second GPIO banks, and a debug interface. The safety monitor is configured to detect a fault condition of the primary processor and to provide an indication of the fault condition to the safety processor. The first GPIO bank is coupled to the primary processor to provide input/output operations to a non-critical function of an automobile, while the second GPIO bank is coupled for a critical function of the automobile. The debug interface is coupled to the second GPIO bank to form a scan chain with input and output registers of the second GPIO bank, and is coupled to the safety processor to receive control information for the scan chain to provide input/output operations to the critical function of the automobile when the safety monitor provides the indication.

Embodiments of information handling systems (IHS) and computer implemented methods are disclosed herein to restore system firmware to a selected restore point. In one embodiment, the IHS may include a computer readable non-volatile memory configured to store system firmware, a computer readable storage device configured to store an operating system (OS), a system registry, and an OS restore application, and a processing device configured to execute program instructions within the OS restore application to restore the system registry to a selected restore point and reboot the IHS. As the IHS is in the process of being rebooted, the processing device may execute program instructions within a firmware restore application stored within the computer readable non-volatile memory or the computer readable storage device to restore the system firmware to the selected restore point.