Patent ID: 9569294
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A system for replacing a first server information handling system with a second server information handling system, the system comprising: a first server information handling system having: a chassis; at least one processor included in the chassis and operable to execute instructions to process information; memory included in the chassis and interfaced with the at least one processor, the memory operable to store the instructions and information; a management controller included in the chassis and operable to perform management functions including at least power up and power down of the at least one processor; a near field communications (NFC) device interfaced with the management controller and operable to communicate with an external NFC device; and an inventory module stored in non-transitory memory and having instructions configured to execute on the management controller, the inventory module configured to obtain a hardware configuration from hardware components included in the chassis and to communicate the hardware configuration through communication by the NFC device to an external NFC device, the hardware configuration including configuration settings of the hardware components; and an external NFC device having instructions stored in non-transitory memory configured to execute on a processor associated with the external NFC device, the instructions configured to obtain the hardware configuration and the configuration settings from the inventory module, to store the hardware configuration and configuration settings on the external NFC device, and to communicate at least some of the configuration settings to the second server information handling system by NFC communication, the second server information handling system applying the configuration settings to replace the first server information handling system, the external NFC device further having wireless networking, the instructions configured to confirm implementation of the configuration settings at the second server information handling system by establishing a wireless networking interface with the second server information handling system after applying configuration settings provided by the NFC communications.