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| 20080229089 | Remote network device provisioning - Various embodiments are disclosed relating to remote network device provisioning. A method is disclosed, the method comprising discovering a network address associated with a device on a network based on a discovery response received in response to a discovery request provided to the device. One or more configurable boot options associated with the device may be determined based at least in part on the discovery response. One or more of the configurable boot options may be configured on the device, wherein, upon reboot of the device using the configured boot options, a software image is provided to the device. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080235363 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PLATFORM LEVEL DATA MODEL FOR INDICATIONS BASED EVENT CONTROL AND DATA TRANSFER - For a platform level data model for indications based event control and data transfer, a management controller may enable performing indications based management operations that may be based on a management service utilizing CIM Indications model. The management controller may enable communication of indications based messaging and/or data. The indications may be triggered based on events generated and/or triggered in a plurality of managed entities. The events generation may be performed dynamically within the plurality of managed entities, or may be initiated via the management controller. The management controller may enable processing of partially generated indications, via the plurality of managed entities, and/or as pass-through router for full indications processed via the plurality of managed entities. The indications based management operations may also comprise subscription related operations wherein the management controller may enable performing processing of subscription requests, modifications, and/or deletions to facilitate external access via the device. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080263191 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HANDLING PACKET FILTERING INFORMATION - A portion of management traffic, carried via network traffic, and received and/or transmitted via a network controller, may be processed externally to the network controller, wherein management messaging may be carried via network packets, and one or more headers may added to enable transmission and/or reception via the network controller. Packet filters may be setup, in the network controller, via the management controller, to enable determining network packets that may carry the management traffic. The management controller may utilize commands to setup packet filers in the network controller, wherein matching criteria, in received network packets, and/or corresponding actions that may be performed in matching packets, may be specified. The matching criteria may comprise specifying one or more header types that may be utilized in the received network packets. The network controller may generate filter identifiers, which may be utilized, subsequently, via the management controller to delete the packet filters. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080282328 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MODELING OPTIONS FOR OPAQUE MANAGEMENT DATA FOR A USER AND/OR AN OWNER - Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) management profiles, based on the Common Information Model (CIM) protocol, may be utilized to perform access authentication during opaque management data profile operations based on DMTF/CIM Role Based Authorization (RBA) profile and/or Simple Identity Management (SIM) profiles. Instances of CIM_Identity class may be utilized to enable validation of ownership and/or access rights, via instances of CIM_Role class and/or instances of CIM_Privilege class for a plurality of common users and/or applications. Quota related operations may be performed via “QuotaAffectsElement” associations between instances of CIM_Identity class and instances of the CIM_OpaqueManagementDataService class. The “QuotaAffectsElement” association may comprise “AllocationQuota” and/or “AllocatedBytes” properties to enable tracking and/or validating of quota related information within the opaque management data profile. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20090178104 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A MULTI-LEVEL SECURITY ASSOCIATION LOOKUP SCHEME FOR INTERNET PROTOCOL SECURITY - Methods and systems for data communication are disclosed and may include utilizing a multi-level lookup process for determining IPsec parameters from a security association database. The security association database may be stored in content addressable memory, and may include an Internet protocol address table, a security association lookup table, and a security association context table. The security association lookup and security association context tables may include a single table. An Internet protocol address table index may be looked up in the Internet protocol address table for a first lookup of the multi-level lookup process. A security protocol index may be looked up utilizing the Internet protocol address table index for a second lookup of the multi-level lookup process. The Internet protocol security parameters may be determined utilizing the security protocol index. IPsec processing may be performed utilizing the determined Internet protocol security parameters. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20100005190 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A NETWORK CONTROLLER BASED PASS-THROUGH COMMUNICATION MECHANISM BETWEEN LOCAL HOST AND MANAGEMENT CONTROLLER - A network controller in a communication device may be operable to route local host-management traffic between a local host and a management controller within the communication device, wherein the local host may be operable to utilize its network processing resources and function during communication of the local host-management traffic. A dedicated management port may be configured in the network controller to enable receiving and/or transmitting local host-management traffic communicated from and/or to the local host separate from the local host's network traffic communicated via the network controller. The host-management traffic is communicated between the network controller and the management controller via NC-SI interface. The management controller may be assigned Internet protocol (IP) based addressing information for use during routing of local host-management traffic. The IP addressing information may be preset statically, assigned automatically from a list of available addresses, or configured dynamically via a DHCP server function. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100192218 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PACKET FILTERING FOR LOCAL HOST-MANAGEMENT CONTROLLER PASS-THROUGH COMMUNICATION VIA NETWORK CONTROLLER - A network controller in a communication device may be operable to provide pass-through communication of local host-management traffic between a local host and a management controller within the communication device, wherein the local host may be operable to utilize its network processing resources during communication of the local host-management traffic. The network controller may use packet filtering to provide the pass-through communication, wherein the network controller may utilize a plurality filtering rules during filtering of packets received in the network controller. The filtering rules may specify packet processing and/or forwarding actions by said network controller based on one or more specified conditions. The specified conditions may based on one or more match criteria; wherein the match criteria comprising source address, destination address, and/or traffic type data in the received packets. Address learning mechanisms may be used in the network controller to enable configuring and/or performing packet filtering transparently. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20110029650 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HOST INDEPENDENT PLATFORM DIAGNOSTICS - A management controller in a network device may provide host-independent diagnostics servicing corresponding to a plurality of managed resources in the network devices. The management controller may be integrated into a network controller in the network device. The diagnostics servicing may be based on one or more management protocols, such as the Web Service Management (WS-Management) protocol. The management controller may log diagnostic data and/or alerts corresponding to the managed resources. The management controller may communicate with the managed resource to request and/or receive the diagnostic data and/or alerts, using Platform Level Data Model (PLDM) based interactions for example. The management controller may incorporate diagnostics based management interface for use during diagnostics management servicing, to exchange diagnostics related management messaging with management devices and/or entities. The diagnostics based management interface may be implemented using Common Information Model (CIM) objects. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110029659 | Method and System for Network Proxy Services for Energy Efficient Networking - A network device may provide power-aware network proxy services to one or more resources internal to the network device and/or one or more other network devices that may transition to corresponding power saving states. The power saving states may comprise disabling, shutting down, and/or reducing power consumption. The power-aware network proxy service may comprise handling at least some of network communication on behalf of serviced internal resources and/or other network devices, and monitoring for conditions to transition the serviced internal resources and/or other network devices from the corresponding power saving states. The power-aware network proxy services may be provided via a network interface controller (NIC) in the network device. Determining when to transition serviced resources and/or other network devices from corresponding power saving states may be based on monitoring and/or processing of traffic handled on behalf of the serviced resources and/or other network devices during power-aware network proxy servicing. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110032944 | Method and System for Switching in a Virtualized Platform - A local manager in a local networking domain may configure a plurality of logical switches by combining switching functions available in network devices and/or network switches in the local networking domain. The configuration may utilize vertical and/or horizontal combinations of the switching functions. The switching functions may comprise network switch-based switching functions, and/or hypervisor-level switching functions and/or network adapter-level switching functions available in network devices which may be configured as virtualized platforms. The local manager may provide interfacing services to enable exposing configured logical switches. The interfacing services may comprise an internal interface, which may be utilized, via the local manager, to control the switching functions corresponding to logical switches and/or to route messages sent to and/or from the logical switches. The interfacing services may also comprise an external interface, which may be used by external entities, such as remote management entities, to manage and/or interact with configured logical switches. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110035474 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MATCHING AND REPAIRING NETWORK CONFIGURATION - Aspects of a method and system for matching and repairing network configuration are provided. In this regard, one or more circuits and/or processors may be operable to determine a configuration of one or more parameters in a plurality of devices along a network path, and detect whether any of the one or more parameters are configured such that communication between the plurality of devices is disabled and/or suboptimal. The devices may comprise at least one server and one or more of a network switch, a network bridge, and a router. In instances that one or more parameters are incompatibly or sub-optimally configured, a notification of the incompatibility may be communicated to a network management entity and/or one or more messages may be generated to reconfigure the one or more parameters in one or more of the plurality of devices. The determining and/or detecting may be performed automatically in response to various events. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110035498 | Method and System for Managing Network Power Policy and Configuration of Data Center Bridging - Certain aspects of a method and system for managing network power policy and configuration of data center bridging may include a network domain that comprises a single logical point of management (LPM) that coordinates operation of one or more devices, such as network interface controllers (NICs), switches, and/or servers in the network domain: The single LPM may be operable to manage one or both of a network power policy and/or a data center bridging (DCB) configuration policy for the network domain. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110106943 | Host Independent Secondary Application Processor - A system for providing a secondary processing environment to a computer system having a host processor includes a secondary processor configured to perform a processing service, a policy manager configured to control interaction between the secondary processor and the host processor, a service provider configured to provide the processing service to the computer system and a host-state monitor to monitor state of the host processor, wherein the secondary processor operation is based on the state of the host processor. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110106977 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HOST INDEPENDENT SECONDARY APPLICATION PROCESSOR - A network interface controller (NIC) in a computer device may provide host-independent secondary processing servicing. The secondary processing servicing may be provided by the NIC independent of networking operations performed by NIC, and may comprise performing applications and/or services typically performed in the computer device. The secondary processing servicing may be provided, and/or be activated when an operating system (OS), a virtual machine (VM), a service, and/or an application running in the computer device becomes unavailable, due to transitions to non-active and/or low-power or power saving states. In instances where the computer device is configured as a virtualized platform, comprising a plurality of VMs, the secondary processing servicing may be provided separately and/or independently to each of the plurality of VMs running in the computer device during the virtualization. The secondary processing servicing may be provided using a dedicated component in the NIC, which may be fixed or removable. | 05-05-2011 |
