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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2022
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Theodore R. Grevers, Jr., Milford, MA (US);
James Meeker, Liberty Hill, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A disclosed method includes loading a driver stack for an industrial automation control (IAC) communication protocol into a management controller of a server, connecting the management controller to an IAC network interconnect, and communicating with the driver stack to perform operations for integrating the management controller into the IAC network as a remotely manageable resource of the IAC network. The integrating may include discovering the management controller, obtaining configuration information from the management controller, indicative of a configurable management controller resource, and configuring a setting of the resource. The configurable management controller resource may be a network interface card (NIC) and the configurable setting may be an Internet protocol (IP) address of the NIC. In at least some embodiments, the driver stack is a PROFINET stack and performing the operations includes Discovery and Basic Configuration Protocol (DCP) requests and responses.