Outside-of-network management of a component in a virtual data center using a remote display on a host management server

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code stored thereon for causing a computer system to perform a method for outside-of-network management of a component in a virtual data center network using a remote display on a HostManagement server (HMS), the method comprising:

• providing, from a computing device outside of a virtual data center network, a request for access to a host java network launch protocol (JNLP) file for a host on the component in the virtual data center network;
• responsive to receiving the request for access to the host JNLP file at the host, providing the host JNLP file to the HMS in the virtual data center network,
• responsive to receiving the host JNLP file at the HMS, initiating a remote display server on the HMS;
• providing, from the HMS and to a WebService inside the virtual data center network, an HMS port information;
• providing, from the WebService and to the computing device outside of the virtual data center network, a WebService port information,
• the WebService port information including the HMS port information;
• responsive to receiving the WebService port information at the computing device outside of the virtual data center network, utilizing the WebService port information to establish a connection from a browser on the computing device outside of the virtual data center network to the HMS in the virtual data center network;
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• utilizing the browser on a display of the computing device via the connection to the HMS to provide remote management of the component via the remote display server operating on the HMS.

In a computer system having a graphical user interface including a display device, a method for outside-of-network management of a hardware component in a virtual data center, using a remote display on a HostManagement server (HMS), the method comprising:

• providing, from the computing system outside of a virtual data center network, a request for access to a host java network launch protocol (JNLP) file for a baseboard management controller (BMC) on a host on a component in the virtual data center network,
• the BMC being connected to a management switch;
• responsive to receiving the request for access to the host JNLP file at the host, providing the host JNLP file to the HMS in the virtual data center network,
• the HMS initiating a remote display server on the HMS;
• providing, from the HMS and to a WebService inside the virtual data center network, an HMS port information;
• providing, from the WebService and to the computing system outside of the virtual data center network, a WebService port information,
• the WebService port information including the HMS port information;
• responsive to receiving the WebService port information at the computing system outside of the virtual data center network, utilizing the WebService port information to establish a connection from a browser on the computing system outside of the virtual data center network to the HMS in the virtual data center network;
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• utilizing the browser on a display of the computing system via the connection to the HMS to provide remote management of the component via the remote display