API-based virtual console

Abstract

Disclosed systems and methods enable a RESTful API server, e.g., a Redfish server, provisioned with virtual console resources running on a system management resource, e.g., a BMC, of an information handling system, to perform virtual console operations. The virtual console features include a virtual video feature for relaying frame buffers of video data, corresponding to video output from a host application, to a RESTful API client. The virtual console features may further include virtual keyboard and mouse features, which may be collectively referred to herein as virtual HID features, for relaying keyboard and mouse data, indicative of keyboard scan codes, mouse x, y coordinates, and mouse activity, e.g., Right Click, Left Click, etc., generated by a user of the RESTful API client.

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