Systems and methods for thermal control support for predecessor information handling systems

A method comprising:

• communicating an inquiry from a first management controller of a later-generation information handling system to a second management controller of an earlier-generation information handling system communicatively coupled to the first management controller via a network to determine if the earlier-generation information handling system includes an information handling resource for which a second thermal table of the second management controller requires updated thermal control parameters for thermal control of the information handling resource;
• and
• responsive to determining that the earlier-generation information handling system includes the information handling resource for which a second thermal table of the second management controller requires updated thermal control parameters for thermal control of the information handling resource:
• reading from a first thermal table of the first management controller an entry associated with the information handling resource and a second information handling system including thermal control parameters for thermal control of the information handling resource by the second information handling system;
• and
• communicating from the first management controller to the second management controller the thermal control parameters for thermal control of the information handling resource by the second information handling system in order to update the second thermal table with the thermal control parameters.

An article of manufacture, comprising;

• a non-transitory computer readable medium;
• and
• computer-executable instructions carried on the computer readable medium, the instructions readable by a processor, the instructions, when read and executed, for causing the processor to:
• communicate an inquiry from a first management controller of a later-generation information handling system to a second management controller of an earlier-generation information handling system communicatively coupled to the first management controller via a network to determine if the earlier-generation information handling system includes an information handling resource for which a second thermal table of the second management controller requires updated thermal control parameters for thermal control of the information handling resource;
• and
• responsive to determining that the earlier-generation information handling system includes the information handling resource for which a second thermal table of the second management controller requires updated thermal control parameters for thermal control of the information handling resource:
• read from a first thermal table of the first management controller an entry associated with the information handling resource and a second information handling system including thermal control parameters for thermal control of the information handling resource by the second information handling system;
• and
• communicate from the first management controller to the second management controller the thermal control parameters for thermal control of the information handling resource by the second information handling system in order to update the second thermal table with the thermal control parameters.