Ball Dawg!

So you’ve had to replace a main board in your IBM blade, we’ve all been there.  Generally, should you have asked for your friendly neighborhood tech to come out, he will kindly update your fresh motherboard with the original machines serial number and machine type/model number.  If you’ve ever watched him do his work, you know on earlier blades he used the BIOs update utility from IBMs website to update that information.  Well times have changed, this is no longer an option on UEFI and IMM based blades.   Before you go and call IBM, you can use IBM’s ASU utility to update them.   When I called they actually sent me an in house bootable ISO, which ended up just booting Linux and running a shell script that ran the following two commands:
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In an attempt to up security and stop sending our passwords over clear text, I recently setup an in house certificate authority at work. While I’m not going to go through setting up the actual CA (see g-loaded.eu), I am going to go through the steps of how to set up a few different hardware vendor/types to work with a signed certificate.  One thing I learned during this process is that almost every single product, even made by the same company, is different.
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