Dell & Products L.p.

Dell Products L.p.

Richard M Tonry

Adolfo Sandor Montero

Abeye Teshome

Bassem El-Azzami

Rajaravi Chandra Kollarapu

Vinodkumar Vasudev Ottar

Mohit Arora

Luis Antonio Valencia Reyes

Gokul Thiruchengode Vajravel

Methods and systems for managing operations of a data processing system are disclosed. To manage operations of the data processing system, a management controller of the data processing system may provide location data for the data processing system to a server via an out-of-band communication channel to identify whether the data processing system is being used for unauthorized tracking purposes. The management controller may then obtain an unauthorized tracking purpose analysis outcome determination via an out-of-band communication channel. If the unauthorized tracking purpose analysis outcome determination indicates that the data processing system is being used to perform unauthorized tracking, an action set may be performed to update an existing operating state of the data processing system to limit an ability of the data processing system to be used to perform the unauthorized tracking.

Tracking detection for data processing systems using out-of-band methods

Methods and systems for managing operations of a data processing system are disclosed. To manage operations of the data processing system, availability of computing resources hosted by the data processing system may be analyzed to facilitate management of hardware resource usage. To do so, policies indicating a standard for computing resource availability for the data processing system may be used to identify an action set to be performed in order to meet operation quality goals for the data processing system. By doing so, the action set may be performed to update operation of the data processing system and facilitate provisioning of desired computer-implemented services provided by the data processing system.

Authentication systems and methods using an existence confirmation result

Methods and systems for managing a data processing system are disclosed. To manage the data processing system, a management controller of the data processing system may obtain location data for the data processing system via an out-of-band communication channel. The location data for the data processing system may include different types of location data obtained via different location generation sources. The management controller may identify whether the different types of location data are consistently reporting location status of the data processing system. If the location data is determined to be consistent, then the management controller may provide a location report based on the location data using the out-of-band communication channel to a server to update a location status of the data processing system.

Obtaining location data for data processing systems using out-of-band components

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Richard M Tonry