System and method for tunneling of management traffic
A method of tunneling management traffic includes receiving at a managed system a control feature from a proxy-managed system that is connected to the managed system, determining that the proxy-managed system is not visible to a management system, providing the control feature to the management system in response to determining that the proxy-managed system is not visible, receiving a modification to the control feature from the management system, and providing, from the managed system, the modification to the control feature to the proxy-managed system in response to receiving the modification to the control feature from the management system.
1. An information handling system, comprising:
a hardware processor; and
a memory device, the memory device storing instructions that when executed cause the hardware processor to perform operations including:
receiving a selection of a control feature sent via a network from a managed system, the selection of the control feature selected via a user interface that corresponds to a proxy-managed system, the user interface defined by a driver that also corresponds to the proxy-managed system;
determining that the proxy-managed system lacks a network presence via a network interface to the information handling system;
identifying a policy associated with the proxy-managed system;
receiving the user interface sent from the managed system to the information handling system;
in response to the determining that the proxy-managed system lacks the network presence via the network interface, establishing a control tunnel via the user interface from the information handling system via the network through the managed system to the proxy-managed system;
generating a modified control feature by modifying the control feature via the user interface that corresponds to the proxy-managed system according to the policy; and
sending the modified control feature via the control tunnel from the information handling system via the network through the managed system to the proxy-managed system.
2. The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further include determining the network is visibly sub-divided.
3. The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further include receiving a modification to the control feature, the modification entered via the user interface.
4. The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further include authenticating the proxy-managed system.
5. The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further include authenticating a user via the user interface.
6. The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further include establishing a communication with the proxy-managed system.
7. The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further include retrieving the policy.
8. A method, comprising:
receiving a selection of a control feature sent via a network from a managed system, the selection of the control feature associated with a proxy-managed system, the control feature selected via a user interface defined by a driver that corresponds to the proxy-managed system;
determining that the proxy-managed system lacks a network presence via a network interface to the network to a management system;
identifying a policy that corresponds to the proxy-managed system;
receiving the user interface sent from the managed system to the management system;
establishing a control tunnel via the user interface from the management system via the network to the managed system and to the proxy-managed system;
generating a modified control feature by modifying the control feature via the user interface according to the policy that corresponds to the proxy-managed system; and
sending the modified control feature via the control tunnel from the management system via the network to the managed system and to the proxy-managed system.
9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising receiving a modification to the control feature, the modification sent via the network interface.
10. The method of claim 8 , further comprising receiving a modification to the control feature, the modification entered via the user interface.
11. The method of claim 8 , further comprising authenticating the proxy-managed system.
12. The method of claim 8 , further comprising authenticating a user via the user interface.
13. The method of claim 8 , further comprising establishing a communication with the proxy-managed system.
14. The method of claim 8 , further comprising retrieving the policy.
15. An information handling system, comprising:
a hardware processor; and
a memory device storing instructions that when executed cause the hardware processor to perform operations, the operations including:
receiving a selection sent via a network from a managed system, the selection selected via a user interface defined by a driver that corresponds to a proxy-managed system and the selection specifying a control feature;
determining that the proxy-managed system lacks a network presence via the network to a management system;
in response to the determining that the proxy-managed system lacks the network presence via the network to the management system, determining the proxy-managed system is accessible via the driver that corresponds to the proxy-managed system;
identifying a policy that corresponds to the proxy-managed system, the policy specifying a modification to the control feature;
receiving the user interface defined by the driver, the user interface sent from the managed system via the network to the management system;
establishing a control tunnel via the user interface from the management system via the network through the managed system to the proxy-managed system;
generating a modified control feature by modifying the control feature according to the policy; and
sending the modified control feature from the management system via the control tunnel via the network through the managed system to the proxy-managed system.
16. The information handling system of claim 15 , wherein the operations further include receiving a modification to the control feature specified by the policy.
17. The information handling system of claim 15 , wherein the operations further include receiving a modification to the control feature, the modification entered via the user interface defined by the driver.
18. The information handling system of claim 15 , wherein the operations further include authenticating the proxy-managed system.
19. The information handling system of claim 15 , wherein the operations further include authenticating a user via the user interface.
20. The information handling system of claim 15 , wherein the operations further include establishing a communication with the proxy-managed system via the control tunnel via the network through the managed system.