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AIINFRA-013 backlog P1 capstone host assurance Effort XL

Integrate management, PCIe, networking, security, and fleet operations in a realistic vendor-rack admission and drift incident.

Depends on: AIINFRA-005, AIINFRA-006, AIINFRA-007, AIINFRA-008, AIINFRA-009, AIINFRA-010

Outcome

The learner receives an imperfect evidence bundle for a newly delivered rack, decides whether to admit it to the fleet, then investigates a later configuration or firmware drift event.

Scenario elements

  • Expected bill of materials and signed vendor manifest.
  • BMC/Redfish inventory, host enumeration, firmware versions, measured-boot evidence, and network identity.
  • Benign discrepancies, one genuine policy violation, and at least one ambiguous signal.
  • Admission, quarantine, remediation, exception, and audit decisions.
  • A later drift alert that requires correlating multiple control planes.

Acceptance criteria

  • The capstone requires evidence-based reasoning across at least four specialization tracks.
  • No single command or checksum trivially reveals the answer.
  • The expected solution distinguishes what is known, inferred, and unproven.
  • The final artifact is a concise admission decision and root-cause report.