US 2017/0288985 A1 · DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Abstract

A device management system includes a system management information handling system (IHS) that is coupled to a network. A first device is included in the device management system and is not configured to communicate with the system management IHS. A plurality of user IHSs are each configured to communicatively couple to the first device and are each configured to communicatively couple to the system management IHS through the network. Each of the plurality of user IHSs is configured to retrieve device information from the first device when that user IHS is communicatively coupled to the first device. Each of the plurality of user IHSs is configured to provide the device information for the first device to the system management IHS when that user IHS is communicatively coupled to the system management IHS through the network.

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Dependent claims

A device management system, comprising:

a system management device that is coupled to a network;
a first managed device that is not connected to the network such that the first managed device cannot directly communicate with the system management device;
and
a first user device that is configured to:
establish a first communication connection with the first managed device without the use of the network;
retrieve, from the first managed device using the first communication connection, first managed device information about the first managed device;
establish, subsequent to retrieving the first managed device information from the first managed device, a second communication connection with the system management device using the network;
and
provide, through the network to the system management device using the second communication connection, the first managed device information.

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An information handling system (IHS), comprising:

a processing system;
and
a memory system that is coupled to the processing system and that includes instructions that, when executed by the processing system, cause the processing system to provide a system manager that is coupled to a network and that is configured to:
receive, from a first user device through the network, first managed device information about a first managed device that is not connected to the network such that the first managed device cannot directly communicate with the system manager, wherein the first managed device information was retrieved by the first user device from the first managed device using a first communication connection prior to the first user device providing the first managed device information to the system manager;
and
provide at least one first notification that is based on the first managed device information about the first managed device.

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A method for managing devices, comprising:

receiving, by a system management device through a network from a first user device, first managed device information about a first managed device that is not connected to the network such that the first managed device cannot directly communicate with the system manager, wherein the first managed device information was retrieved by the first user device from the first managed device using a first communication connection prior to the first user device providing the first managed device information to the system manager;
determining, by the system management device, that the first managed device information about the first managed device is associated with at least one notification event;
and
providing, by the system management device in response to determining that the first managed device information about the first managed device is associated with at least one notification event, at least one first notification.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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