In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides an exemplary method that may include the steps of providing a computing device associated with a plurality of user; receiving output data transmitted from a target unit; analyzing the output data; transmitting a plurality of interaction commands; transmitting the plurality of interaction commands to an application or operating system; determining a plurality of identifying key words; dynamically determining a configuration screen image based on an identification of the plurality of identifying key words associated with the plurality of graphical user interface displays; automatically selecting a configuration setting associated with the plurality of interactive image elements based on the configurations screen image; and executing a plurality of ameliorative actions associated with the configuration setting.

In general, the invention relate to providing computer implemented services using information handling systems. One or more embodiments includes after being allocated to a composed information handling system of the composed information handling systems: monitoring health of a hardware resource of the composed information handling system, making a determination, based on the monitoring of the health of the hardware resource, that the hardware resource is in a compromised state, and based on the determination, initiating a hardware replacement operation using replacement option information (ROI) for the hardware resource and replacement conditions for the hardware resource.

Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented to perform failure analysis and/or self-healing of information handling system storage. In one example, an information handling system may perform self-recovery actions to self-heal system storage issues when there is a OS boot failure due to a failure to detect a system storage drive by determining one or more possible recovery actions based on a current system storage drive status retrieved by an embedded controller (EC) or other programmable integrated circuit of the information handling system. In another example, manufacturing quality control analysis may be performed on boot failure information that is collected at a remote server from multiple failed information handling systems.

A hardware-assisted paravirtualized hardware watchdog is described that is used to detect and recover from computer malfunctions. A computing device determines that a hardware-implemented watchdog of the computing device does not comply with predetermined watchdog criteria, where the hardware-implemented watchdog is configured to send a reset signal when a first predetermined amount of time elapses without receipt of a first refresh signal. If the hardware-implemented watchdog does not comply with the predetermined watchdog criteria, a runtime watchdog service is initialized using a second predetermined amount of time. The runtime watchdog service is directed to periodically send the refresh signal to the hardware-implemented watchdog before an expiration of the first predetermined amount of time that causes the hardware-implemented watchdog to expire. The hardware-implemented watchdog is directed to send the reset signal when the second predetermined amount of time elapses without receipt of a second refresh signal.

Boot failure protection on smartNICs and other computing devices is described. During a power-on stage of a booting process for a computing device, a boot loading environment is directed to install an application programming interface (API) able to be invoked to control operation of a hardware-implemented watchdog. During an operating system loading stage of the booting process, the application programming interface is invoked to enable the hardware-implemented watchdog. During an operating system hand-off stage of the booting process, a last watchdog refresh of the hardware-implemented watchdog is performed, and execution of the boot loading environment is handed off to a kernel boot loader of an operating system. The application programming interface may not be accessible after the hand off to the kernel boot loader.

An improved solid state drive (SSD). The SSD comprising a plurality of non-volatile memory dies, each configured to store at least one block of data associated with one of a plurality of superblocks each containing a plurality of blocks; a volatile memory; and a memory controller. The memory controller configured to store a bit map associated with a first superblock of the plurality of superblocks in the volatile memory, wherein the bit map is configured to indicate whether each of the plurality of blocks is a replacement block, store a block address list in the volatile memory, the block address list is configured to store an address of one or more replacement blocks, and store a replacement block index in the volatile memory associated with the first superblock of the plurality of superblocks, the replacement block index corresponding to the location of an address of a first replacement block of the first superblock in the block address list.

A computing device includes a hardware switch that is activated when a primary Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) of a first BIOS chip of the device fails to load an Operating System (OS) image from an OS partition of a hard drive. The switch passes control to a backup BIOS that executes from a backup BIOS chip. The backup BIOS loads a recovery image from BIOS recovery partition of the hard drive, which causes a reflash application to execute from the recovery image. Reflash application obtains a recovery BIOS from the BIOS recovery partition of the hard drive, reflashes/writes the recovery BIOS onto the first BIOS chip and reboots the device. Following reboot of the device, recovery BIOS loads the OS image from the OS partition, and recovery BIOS becomes the primary BIOS on the first BIOS chip of the device.

A memory system and a data processing system including the memory system may manage a plurality of memory devices. For example, the data processing system may categorize and analyze error information from the memory devices, acquire characteristic data from the memory devices and set operation modes of the memory devices based on the characteristic data, allocate the memory devices to a host workload, detect a defective memory device among the memory devices and efficiently recover the defective memory device.

A data recovery method, an apparatus, and a solid state drive are provided. The method includes: copying, after an abnormality occurs in the solid state drive, memory data of a first memory space to a solidified area of a second memory space, and then writing address information of the solidified area to a third memory space; recovering, after a controller is reset for the first time, the memory data of the first memory space according to the address information of the solidified area; flushing data of the second memory space into a flash memory space according to the recovered memory data of the first memory space; and performing, after the controller is reset for the second time, data recovery on the solid state drive according to memory data of the flash memory space.

A method and apparatus provide recovery from a computing device boot up error by detecting a current boot up error in the computing device, loading a plurality of recovery pre-EFI initialization modules (PEIMs), of a recovery unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI) BIOS for execution, wherein the recovery PEIMS include executable code to pre-initialize at least a processing unit and memory of the computing device in a pre-EFI initialization (PEI) phase of a multi-phase platform initialization operation, and recovering from the boot up error by booting up the computing device using the loaded plurality of recovery pre-EFI initialization modules.