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AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsLee E. Ballard, Deepaganesh Paulraj, Jason B. Kilpatrick
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Systems and methods for management controller firmware updates for an Information Handling System (“IHS”) component without a direct out-of-band management channel are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an IHS may include a host system, a management controller (“MC”) configured to provide out-of-band management of the IHS, and a network interface controller (“NIC”) coupled to the MC, where the NIC comprises a baseboard management controller (“BMC”) coupled to a processing unit, where the NIC BMC does not have a direct out-of-band management channel, or the NIC BMC does have a direct out-of-band management channel but the channel is unavailable, and where the MC is configured to: obtain a firmware update image usable by the NIC BMC; and transmit the firmware update image to the processing unit, wherein the processing unit is configured to transmit the firmware update image to the NIC BMC.
An Information Handling System (IHS), that comprises:
A method, comprising:
A non-transitory, computer-readable medium configured with programming instructions stored thereon that upon execution by a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) of a Network Interface Controller (NIC), cause the BMC to:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.