Patent ID: 9734093
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) of an Information Handing System (IHS) within a multi-IHS chassis, the IHS having secured Solid State Drives (SSDs) coupled to SSD slots on the IHS, the BMC having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the BMC to: identify a triggering event in the IHS; send an alert to a Chassis Management Controller (CMC) of the multi-IHS chassis; receive, from the CMC, a request for a security key pair usable to authenticate a selected one of the secured SSDs in another configuration different from a current configuration; and provide a response to the CMC, wherein the CMC is configured to store a key inventory table, wherein each row of the key inventory table includes: (a) an IHS slot number, (b) an IHS identification, (c) a list of SSD slots, (d) an SSD identification for each secured SSD inserted in the SSD slots, and (e) one or more security key pairs.