NFC communication with an information handling system supplemented by a management controller

An information handling system comprising:

• a chassis operable to support processing components;
• a processor disposed in the chassis and operable to execute instructions for processing information;
• memory disposed in the chassis and interfaced with the processor, the memory operable to store the instructions and information;
• a management controller disposed in the chassis and interfaced with the processor, the management controller operable manage operational conditions associated with processing components within the chassis including at least the processor;
• a near field communication (NFC) transceiver disposed in the chassis and operable to wirelessly communicate with an NFC device external to the chassis;
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• a microcontroller interfacing the management controller with the near field communication transceiver, the microcontroller managing memory interfaced with the NFC transceiver, the memory storing information in support of NFC transceiver wireless communications, the memory including persistent and non-persistent memory;
• wherein the management controller populates management information in the microcontroller memory according to a file partitioning scheme that defines mapping to different memory locations;
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• wherein the management controller populates the partition to store information that changes with less than a predetermined frequency in persistent memory.

A method for communication of management information between a server information handling system management controller and an external information handling system having a near field communication (NFC) device, the method comprising:

• communicating management information from the management controller to a microcontroller;
• storing the management information at memory of the microcontroller according to a logical file view of the microcontroller memory that is maintained by the management controller;
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• communicating the management information from the microcontroller memory to an NFC transceiver coupled to the microcontroller;
• communicating the management information with the NFC transceiver to the external NFC communication device;
• defining with the management controller a file location register at the microcontroller, the file location register assigning a first set of files to persistent memory and a second set of files to non-persistent memory;
• referencing the file location register with the microcontroller to store management information at the microcontroller;
• storing a first type of management information in the persistent memory;
• and
• storing a second type of management information in the non-persistent memory.

A system for NFC transfers of information, the system comprising:

• a portable information handling system having an NFC communication device and an NFC application stored in non-transitory memory, the NFC application operable to command the NFC communication device to communicate information with another NFC communication device;
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• a server baseboard management controller operable to manage operations of a server information handling system based upon management information;
• an NFC transceiver interfaced with the baseboard management controller and operable to perform NFC transfers of information;
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• a microcontroller having memory, the microcontroller interfaced with the server baseboard management controller and the NFC transceiver, the microcontroller having a file location register referenced by the baseboard management controller to store management information in predetermined locations of the microcontroller memory, the microcontroller operable to command the NFC transceiver to communicate management information from the memory responsive to requests from the portable information handling system NFC communication device;
• wherein the microcontroller memory comprises persistent memory and non-persistent memory and the file location register defines a first type of management information for storage in the persistent memory and a second type of management information for storage in the non-persistent memory.