Wireless out-of-band management of information technology assets
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsPadmanabhan Narayanan, Per Henrik Fremrot
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Abstract
An apparatus comprises two or more connection ports, at least one wireless network interface, and at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The at least one processing device is configured to receive, utilizing a first one of the two or more connection ports, a first type of out-of-band management traffic from a managed information technology asset, to receive, utilizing a second one of the two or more connection ports, a second type of out-of-band management traffic from the managed information technology asset, and to communicate, via the at least one wireless network interface, the first and second types of out-of-band management traffic to one or more additional processing devices.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- two or more connection ports;
- at least one wireless network interface;
- and
- at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory;
- the at least one processing device being configured:
- to receive, utilizing a first one of the two or more connection ports, a first type of out-of-band management traffic from a managed information technology asset;
- to receive, utilizing a second one of the two or more connection ports, a second type of out-of-band management traffic from the managed information technology asset;
- to communicate, via the at least one wireless network interface, the first and second types of out-of-band management traffic to one or more additional processing devices;
- to receive, via the at least one wireless network interface, additional out-of-band management traffic from at least one of the one or more additional processing devices;
- to determine whether the additional out-of-band management traffic includes any out-of-band management traffic of the first and second types of out-of-band management traffic;
- responsive to determining that at least a first portion of the additional out-of-band management traffic includes the first type of out-of-band management traffic, to communicate the first portion of the additional out-of-band management traffic to the managed information technology asset utilizing the first connection port;
- and
- responsive to determining that at least a second portion of the additional out-of-band management traffic includes the second type of out-of-band management traffic, to communicate the second portion of the additional out-of-band management traffic to the managed information technology asset utilizing the second connection port.
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory processor-readable storage medium having stored therein program code of one or more software programs, wherein the program code when executed by at least one processing device causes the at least one processing device:
- to receive, utilizing a first one of two or more connection ports, a first type of out-of-band management traffic from a managed information technology asset;
- to receive, utilizing a second one of the two or more connection ports, a second type of out-of-band management traffic from the managed information technology asset;
- to communicate, via at least one wireless network interface, the first and second types of out-of-band management traffic to one or more additional processing devices;
- to receive, via the at least one wireless network interface, additional out-of-band management traffic from at least one of the one or more additional processing devices;
- to determine whether the additional out-of-band management traffic includes any out-of-band management traffic of the first and second types of out-of-band management traffic;
- responsive to determining that at least a first portion of the additional out-of-band management traffic includes the first type of out-of-band management traffic, to communicate the first portion of the additional out-of-band management traffic to the managed information technology asset utilizing the first connection port;
- and
- responsive to determining that at least a second portion of the additional out-of-band management traffic includes the second type of out-of-band management traffic, to communicate the second portion of the additional out-of-band management traffic to the managed information technology asset utilizing the second connection port.
A method performed by at least one processing device comprising a process coupled to a memory, the method comprising:
- receiving, utilizing a first one of two or more connection ports, a first type of out-of-band management traffic from a managed information technology asset;
- receiving, utilizing a second one of the two or more connection ports, a second type of out-of-band management traffic from the managed information technology asset;
- communicating, via at least one wireless network interface, the first and second types of out-of-band management traffic to one or more additional processing devices;
- receiving, via the at least one wireless network interface, additional out-of-band management traffic from at least one of the one or more additional processing devices;
- determining whether the additional out-of-band management traffic includes any out-of-band management traffic of the first and second types of out-of-band management traffic;
- responsive to determining that at least a first portion of the additional out-of-band management traffic includes the first type of out-of-band management traffic, communicating the first portion of the additional out-of-band management traffic to the managed information technology asset utilizing the first connection port;
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- responsive to determining that at least a second portion of the additional out-of-band management traffic includes the second type of out-of-band management traffic, communicating the second portion of the additional out-of-band management traffic to the managed information technology asset utilizing the second connection port.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.