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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2007
Balaji Mittapalli, Austin, TX (US);
Stephen Cochran, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Balaji Mittapalli, Austin, TX (US);
Stephen Cochran, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
An information handling system includes a host including a central processing unit, a first management controller (MC) enabled to communicate with the host, and a network interface resource (NIR) in communication with the host and operable to enable the information handling system to communicate via an external network. The NIR includes a unified management module (UMM) operable to receive and route a local management packet, sent from the host, to the first management controller via a first unified management bus (UMB) and further operable to receive and route a remote management packet, sent from a remote resource via the external network, to the first management controller via the first UMB.