Patent ID: 11921841
Assignee: LENOVO GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY (UNITED STATES) INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 6:
7. An apparatus for secure updating of strong passwords in a composable system, the apparatus comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the apparatus to perform operations comprising:
during deployment of the composable system, requesting, by a central controller in the composable system, device information from a device vendor, the device information specifying a number of expected devices for the composable system;
checking, by the central controller, a number of discovered devices against the number of expected devices;
only upon discovering all the expected devices, updating, by the central controller, a password for all the devices in the composable system; and
upon discovering fewer than the number of expected devices, halting, by the central controller, deployment of the composable system.