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US 10,205,785 · App. 14/483,694 · Granted Feb 12, 2019

Systems and methods for providing virtual crash cart access to an information handling system

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Patent No.
US 10,205,785
App. No.
14/483,694
Granted
Feb 12, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a processor and an access controller communicatively coupled to the processor. The access controller may be configured to, when locally coupled to a second information handling system determine if the second information handling system is authorized to perform virtual crash cart operations on the information handling system and, responsive to determining that the second information handling system is authorized to perform virtual crash cart operations on the information handling system, permit the second information handling system to perform virtual crash cart operations on the information handling system whereby the second information handling system implements one or more virtual information handling resources such that each virtual information handling resource behaves at least in part as a physical information handling resource present at the information handling system.

Claims (41)

1. An information handling system comprising:

a system processor;

an in-band network interface communicatively coupled to the system processor;

a system memory; and

an access controller communicatively coupled to the system processor, the access controller including:

an access controller processor;

an access controller memory;

an access controller network interface comprising an out-of-band network interface having a fixed IP address and communicatively coupled to the access controller processor to provide an emulated virtual Ethernet adapter; and

a front panel access controller I/O port, wherein the front panel access controller I/O port comprises an I/O port accessible to a user via a front panel of the information handling system, wherein the front panel access controller I/O port is coupled to the emulated virtual Ethernet adapter;

wherein the access controller is configured to perform access controller operations comprising:

detecting a request for the emulated virtual Ethernet adapter, from an external system;

determining whether the request for the emulated virtual Ethernet adapter was received via the front panel access controller I/O port;

responsive to determining that the request for the emulated virtual Ethernet adapter was received via the front panel access controller I/O port, identifying the external system as an authorized external system and displaying, on a graphical user interface screen of the authorized external system, one or more virtual crash cart resources configured to function as an information handling resource of the information handling system; and

responsive to determining that the request for the emulated virtual Ethernet adapter was not received via the front panel access controller I/O port, terminating said access controller operations.

2. The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more virtual crash cart resources include a virtual button of a user interface of the information handling system, wherein the virtual button is displayed to the graphical user interface screen of the external system.

3. The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more virtual crash cart resources include a virtual storage medium for the information handling system, wherein the virtual storage medium is physically implemented by a computer-readable media coupled to the external system.

4. The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more virtual crash cart resources include a virtual display of the information handling system, wherein display contents of the information handling system are displayed to a display screen of the external system.

5. The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the network interface is preconfigured with the particular fixed IP address.

6. The information handling system of claim 5 , wherein the front panel access controller I/O port comprises a universal serial bus (USB) port.

7. The information handling system of claim 6 , wherein the emulated virtual Ethernet adapter comprises an emulated virtual USB Ethernet adapter.

8. The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein determining whether the external system is authorized includes validating login credentials provided by the user of via the external system.

9. The information handling system of claim 8 , wherein the access controller is configured to execute a multiple-tier access policy wherein:

validating the login credentials provided by the user of the external system comprises a prerequisite to performing at least one, but less than all, virtual crash cart operations.

10. A method of performing access controller operations comprising:

detecting a request for an emulated virtual Ethernet adapter from an external system coupled to the information handling system, wherein the emulated virtual Ethernet adapter is provided by an access controller network interface comprising an out-of-band network interface having a particular IP address;

determining whether the request for the emulated virtual Ethernet adapter was received via a front panel access controller I/O port, wherein the front panel access controller I/O port comprises an I/O port coupled to the emulated virtual Ethernet adapter, wherein the emulated virtual Ethernet adapter comprises a network adapter of an access controller of the information handling system and wherein the front panel access controller I/O port is accessible to a user via a front panel of the information handling system, wherein the access controller is communicatively coupled to a system processor, which is communicatively coupled to an in-band network interface;

responsive to determining that the request for the emulated virtual Ethernet adapter was received via the front panel access controller I/O port, identifying the external system as an authorized external system and displaying, on a graphical user interface screen of the authorized external system, one or more virtual crash cart resources configured to function as an information handling resource of the information handling system; and

responsive to determining that the request for the emulated virtual Ethernet adapter was not received via the front panel access controller I/O port, terminating said access controller operations.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the virtual crash cart resource includes a virtual button of a user interface of the information handling system, wherein the virtual button is displayed to the graphical user interface screen of the external system.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the virtual crash cart resource includes a virtual storage medium for the information handling system, wherein the virtual storage medium is physically implemented by a computer-readable media coupled to the external system.

13. The method of claim 10 , wherein the virtual crash cart resource comprises a virtual display of the information handling system, wherein display contents of the information handling system are displayed to a display screen of the external system.

14. The method of claim 10 , wherein the network interface of the network adapter is preconfigured with a particular fixed IP address.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the front panel access controller I/O port comprises a universal serial bus (USB) port.

16. The method of claim 10 , wherein receiving the system request comprises receiving the request via a short-range wireless connection.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the short-range wireless connection comprises a Bluetooth connection.

18. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

validating login credentials provided by the user of the external system.

19. The method of claim 18 , further comprising:

executing a multiple-tier access policy wherein virtual crash cart operations supported by the external system include:

a first subset of the virtual crash cart operations, which the access controller may permit without validating the login credentials; and

a second subset of the virtual crash cart operations, which the access controller may permit only after validating the login credentials.

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