Patent ID: 7788717

Claim:
An apparatus to selectively enable a power-on password, the apparatus comprising: a password module storing a power-on password for a blade server; a test module determining if a power-on policy is satisfied in response to the blade server receiving power, wherein the power-on policy is satisfied when the blade server is inserted into a blade enclosure different than a previous blade enclosure that the blade server was last inserted into and wherein the power-on policy is satisfied if the blade server is removed from a first blade enclosure and inserted in a second blade enclosure, wherein the test module exchanges credentials with the second blade enclosure and determines that the blade server is inserted in the second blade enclosure by comparing the exchanged credentials with stored credentials from the first blade enclosure; and an access module granting access to the blade server when the power-on policy is not satisfied, and denying access to the blade server until the power-on password is received when the power-on policy is satisfied, wherein all or a portion of the password module, the test module, and the access module comprise one or more of logic hardware and executable code, the executable code stored on one or more computer readable storage media and executed by a processor.