Dell Products Inc.

Sruthi Reddy Mothukupally

Yogesh Prabhakar Kulkarni

Chandrasekhar Mugunda

Marshal F Savage

Michael A Brundridge

Srinivasa Rao Nagalla

Gang Liu

Darrell Rosser

Jason C Dale

Akkiah Choudary Maddukuri

Mark W Shutt

Sanjeev Dambal

Venkatesh Ramamoorthy

Wayne Robert Weilnau, Jr

Rui An

Akshata Sheshagiri Naik

Satyajit Dipakbhai Desai

Syamu Sajja

Krishna P Mohan

Larry Liangzhong Wang

An information handling system may include an information handling resource, and a management controller configured to provide out-of-band management of the information handling system and coupled to the information handling resource via a communications bus. The management controller may be configured to cause the information handling resource to update a firmware thereof by transmitting a plurality of datagrams to the information handling resource via the communications bus, wherein the plurality of datagrams includes: a pilot datagram comprising a first header that includes information regarding an update payload, wherein the pilot datagram is configured to trigger an update handler of the information handling resource; and one or more subsequent datagrams comprising second headers and respective portions of the update payload, wherein the update handler is configured to update the firmware based on the update payload.

Intelligent device updating

Systems and methods for enabling license management in pre-boot environments are described. In some embodiments, a method may include: loading, by a Basic System Input/Output (BIOS) of an Information Handling System (IHS), prior to the booting of any Operating System (OS) by the IHS, a license manager Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) driver; and executing, by the BIOS, a command received from a component or device coupled to the IHS following a license management protocol provided by the UEFI driver, where the command is to obtain or verify license data.

License management in pre-boot environments

In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a host system comprising a host system processor and a device coupled to the host system processor, and may also comprise a management controller communicatively coupled to the host system processor and configured to provide management of the information handling system and provide a plurality of management interfaces wherein each management interface has configurable properties and the management interfaces are capable of simultaneous usage.

Systems and methods for providing multiple configurable management controller management interfaces

In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a host system and a management controller communicatively coupled to the host system processor. The host system may include a host system processor and a device coupled to the host system processor. The management controller may be configured to provide management of the information handling system, provide a plurality of management interfaces, and provide a user interface for configuring a respective network interface affinity for each management interface to system management features supported by the management controller.

Systems and methods for configuring network interface affinity to system management features supported by a management controller

A method for use in an information handling system comprising a processor, an information handling resource communicatively coupled to the processor, the information handling resource including a controller and a temperature sensor for sensing a temperature associated with the information handling resource, and a management controller communicatively coupled to the processor and the information handling resource, and having stored thereon a program of instructions configured to perform thermal management of the information handling system, may be provided. The method may include periodically communicating information indicative of the temperature from the information handling resource to the management controller, storing by the management controller the information indicative of the temperature in a data record associated with the temperature sensor, and based on information stored in the data record, performing by the program of instructions closed-loop thermal management of the information handling system.

Systems and methods for providing sensor information from an intelligent device for closed-loop thermal control

A method may include identifying a respective location of a particular information handling resource within an information handling system, based on the respective location, reading an entry from a thermal table comprising thermal parameters for thermal management of one or more information handling resources of the information handling system based on respective locations of the one or more information handling resources within the information handling system, and applying at least one thermal parameter from the entry for thermal management of the particular information handling resource.

Systems and methods for thermal control of information handling resources based on system architecture

An information handling system includes a device, a controller, and a license manager subsystem. The controller is configured to determine whether the device has a license assigned and to extract a unique identification for the device in response to a request for information about the device. The license manager subsystem is configured to send the request for information about the device to the controller, to send the unique identification for the device to a license server as a request for the license for the device, to receive the license from the license server, and to assign the license to the device when the license is received.

System and method for extracting device uniqueness to assign a license to the device

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Sruthi Reddy Mothukupally