System and method for customized application ordering and installation for information processing systems

摘要

The replacement of legacy information processing systems at a job site is automatically managed in cooperation with a manufacturing location of information processing systems by coordinating the production of spare information handling systems with appropriate configurations. A census tool is connected to the legacy information processing systems via a network of the job site to determine the legacy system configurations and transmits the legacy configurations to the manufacturing site. An inventory translation engine translates the legacy configurations into replacement configurations for making the replacement information handling systems. The ordering of replacement information processing systems and the translation of the replacement configuration is controlled by rules established by a site ordering tool and may include applications packaged at the site of operation and transmitted to the manufacturing site for installation on the replacement systems.