Patent ID: 9584513
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a hypervisor of a privileged network access information handling system (IHS), a hardware configuration manager (HCM) database that includes configuration information including physical network identifier (PNet ID) entries and respective associated physical adapter type entries and respective associated logical partition (LPAR) access information entries, wherein the configuration information identifies a machine serial number of the privileged network access IHS, identifies a physical adapter of the privileged network access IHS, and indicates that the given physical adapter connects to a given physical network having a given PNet ID; receiving, by the hypervisor of the privileged network access IHS, the PNAM database that includes privileged network access information including physical network identifier (PNet ID) entries, each PNet ID entry being associated with a respective identifier of a respective administered IHS, wherein the privileged network access information identifies the machine serial number of the privileged network access IHS, associates the machine serial number with the given physical network, and indicates that the given physical network is a privileged network; transmitting, by the hypervisor of the privileged network access IHS, the HCM database to a privileged network access (PNA) tool of the privileged network access IHS; transmitting, by the hypervisor of the privileged network access IHS, the PNAM database to a privileged network access (PNA) tool; extracting, by the PNA tool, configuration information from the HCM database, the configuration information including PNet ID entries and respective associated physical adapter ID) entries and respective associated logical partition (LPAR) access information entries, thus providing extracted network configuration information, wherein the PNA tool grants the privileged network access IHS privileged access to the given physical network based on the network access information in the PNAM database.