Patent ID: 11949583
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 9:
10. A method comprising:
at least one hardware processor of a compute appliance executing instructions to enforce compliance of the compute appliance to a reference operating state for the compute appliance, wherein the compute appliance is part of a cloud-based computing system, and enforcing compliance with the reference operating state comprises, responsive to a startup of the compute appliance:
determining, by the compute appliance, an actual compute state of the compute appliance, wherein the actual compute state comprises an actual physical topology placement of a hardware component of the compute appliance, determining the actual compute state comprises determining the physical topology placement of the hardware component, the compute appliance comprises a plurality of physical locations in which the hardware component may be installed, and determining the physical topology placement of the hardware component comprises identifying a specific physical location of the plurality of physical locations;
verifying compliance of the actual compute state with a reference compute state for the compute appliance, wherein the verification comprises comparing the actual compute state with the reference compute state, and comparing the actual compute state with the reference compute state comprises comparing the specific physical location to a physical location of the reference compute state; and

responsive to a result of the verification, controlling, by the compute appliance, whether the compute appliance is part of the cloud-based computing system,
wherein determining the actual compute state comprises:
determining a component inventory of the compute appliance, wherein determining the component inventory comprises determining a first identifier for the hardware component; and
determining a complex identifier for the hardware component based on the physical topology location and the first identifier.