An information handling system may include at least one processor; and a non-transitory memory coupled to the at least one processor. The information handling system may be configured to: receive a command associated with an Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) protocol; package the command for transmission according to a Redfish protocol; and transmit the packaged command to a Redfish interface of a management controller, wherein the management controller is configured to unpackage and execute the command.

An information handling system may include a host system including a host network interface; and a management controller including a management network interface, the management controller being configured to provide out-of-band management of the information handling system. The management controller may be configured to: receive, via the management network interface, network configuration information for the host network interface; and provide access to the network configuration information via an application programming interface (API). The host system may be configured to: poll the API of the management controller at selected times until the management controller provides access to the network configuration information; retrieve the network configuration information via the API; and configure the host network interface in accordance with the network configuration information.

In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, an exemplary system or computer implemented method for implementing the virtualization of access node functions may include, for example: a memory to store instructions for execution; one or more processors to execute the instructions; a control plane interface to communicably interface the system with an access node over a network, in which the access node is physically coupled with a plurality of broadband lines; a virtualized module to provide a virtualized implementation of a plurality of functions of the access node at the system, in which the virtualized module executes on a virtualized computing infrastructure; the control plane interface of the system to receive current operational data and current operating conditions for the plurality of broadband lines from the access node; the virtualized module to update the virtualized implementation of the plurality of functions of the access node at the system according to the current operational data and the current operating conditions received from the access node; an analysis module to analyze the current operational data and the current operating conditions received from the access node; an instruction module to generate control parameters to affect operation of the access node based on the analysis of the current operational data and the current operating conditions received; and the control plane interface to send the control parameters to the access node for adoption at the access node. Other related embodiments are disclosed.

A tool is provided to configure an edge compute environment of a network. The edge compute network configuration tool may generate a configuration process for instantiating an edge compute environment at an edge site of a network including configuring one or more of the components of the edge compute environment. The configuration process may include generating automatically executed configuration instructions that communicate with the devices of the edge compute environment to configure operational processes of the devices, provision communication ports, establish one or more network addresses with the devices, etc. In some instances, the edge compute configuration tool may execute one or more micro-services to communicate with and control configuration of the devices of the edge compute environment. In addition, in some instances, a content delivery network may be used to deliver configuration data to the device being configured.

A network device management method for a first network device in autonomic networking includes obtaining management information of a service flow, the management information comprising a type of a management operation and an identifier of the service flow, and the first network device being an ingress network device of the service flow, determining a second network device on a forwarding path of the service flow based on the identifier of the service flow, the second network device being a next-hop network device of the first network device, sending a control packet having the management information to the second network device, the control packet indicating to the second network device to perform a management operation based on the type of the management operation and obtain information associated with the management operation, receiving, from the second network device, a response packet having information associated with the management operation.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a gateway system and a communication method. The gateway system includes: a control plane entity, connected or integrated with a mobility management network element, and configured to allocate an IP address to UE and configure a data path for connecting a user plane entity with an RAN, a PDN or another gateway; one or more user plane entities, located between the PDN and the RAN, independent of the control plane entity, configured to forward data on the data path configured by the control plane entity. The gateway system is composed of the control plane entity and the user plane entity which are independent of each other, the number of the user plane entities may be independently changed to adapt to the change of network traffic without replacing all gateway entities, the network deployment is more convenient and the cost is lower.

A distributed system includes a client system with a plurality of managed devices. At least one agent is in communication with the managed devices. The one agent updates and changes at least one management policy. Anomaly detection is pushed out to the one agent. A dedicated polling server is in communication with the one agent. The one agent communicates over a subscribed bus, and runs on the dedicated polling server. A portal bridge is in communication with the bus and communicates through a client system firewall to a Network System. The portal bridge listens on the bus through a firewall of the client system. The one agent discovers a local environment and retrieves monitored client system parameters. The one agent performs at least one of: communicates a time data series or detects an anomaly, in response to a detection of a hole the at least one agent checks a value for an anomaly and detected anomalies are communicated to the server, when an anomaly is not detected the agent sends a time series data point to the repository and when there are changes in the monitored system parameters the agent loads the change and restarts with the polling. In response to anomaly detection one or more physical changes in a managed infrastructure hardware is made, where the hardware supports the flow and processing of information, and in response to production of the clusters security of the managed infrastructure is maintained.

Some embodiments use proxies on host devices to capture broadcast DHCP traffic in a network. Each host in some embodiments executes one or more virtual machines (VMs). In some embodiments, a proxy operates on each host between each VM and the underlying network. For instance, in some embodiments, a VM's proxy operates between the VM and a physical forwarding element executing on the VM's host. To suppress DHCP broadcast, the proxy for a particular VM monitors the VM's traffic to detect and intercept a DHCP discover message. When the proxy receives a DHCP discover message, the proxy retrieves DHCP configuration data that was previously stored on the host for the VM. In some embodiments, the DHCP configuration data is stored on the host for the VM during the installation of the VM in response to an administrator's request or as part of an installation script that installs the VM. The DHCP configuration data in some embodiments is stored in one common data store for all the VMs that execute on the host, while in other embodiments, each VM's DHCP configuration data is stored in a DHCP data store that is uniquely maintained for the VM. In some of these latter embodiments, the data in the unique DHCP data store for a VM can easily migrate with the VM when the VM migrates from one host to another host.

This disclosure provides a method for establishing a network connection between an intelligent baseboard management controller and a management server. The intelligent baseboard management controller is disposed on a motherboard of an electronic device. A connection configuration program is installed in the electronic device, and the electronic device executes the connection configuration program to transmit a connection information packet to the intelligent baseboard management controller. After receiving the connection information packet, the intelligent baseboard management controller parses a connection information of the management server from the connection information packet, and executes a network connection procedure according to the connection information of the management server, so that the network connection between the intelligent baseboard management controller and the management server is established. Thus, a system administrator of the management server can remotely monitor, control, or manage the electronic device by the intelligent baseboard management controller.

NFC communications from a mobile phone to an information handling system initiates an inventory by a management controller of the information handling system. The inventory is provided to the mobile telephone with a second NFC communication so that an end user can see a visual depiction of the interior of the information handling system before opening the chassis of the system.