Device or vendor independent network switch management via embedded management controller stack

A method for device or vendor independent network switch management on a management controller, the method comprising:

• receiving, at the management controller, parsed information of a management information base (MIB) file corresponding to a network switch, wherein the network switch has a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) interface, and the management controller is communicatively connected to the network switch through the SNMP interface;
• executing, on the management controller, a SNMP client application;
• establishing, by the SNMP client application executed on the management controller, a client-server communication between the management controller and the network switch through the SNMP interface based on the parsed information of the MIB file, wherein the management controller functions as a client of the client-server communication and the network switch functions as a server of the client-server communication;
• receiving, by the management controller from a remote computing device through an out-of-band (OOB) network, an input to manage or configure the network switch;
• and
• managing or configuring, by the management controller, the network switch via the client-server communication through the SNMP interface based on the input and the parsed information of the MIB file.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable code, wherein the computer executable code, when executed at a processor of a management controller, is configured to:

• receive parsed information of a management information base (MIB) file corresponding to a network switch having a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) interface, wherein the management controller is communicatively connected to the network switch through the SNMP interface;
• execute, on the management controller, a SNMP client application;
• establish, by the SNMP client application, a client-server communication between the management controller and the network switch through the SNMP interface based on the parsed information of the MIB file, wherein the management controller functions as a client of the client-server communication and the network switch functions as a server of the client-server communication;
• receive, from a remote computing device through an out-of-band (00B) network, an input to manage or configure the network switch;
• and
• manage and configure the network switch via the client-server communication through the SNMP interface based on the input and the parsed information of the MIB file.