Patent ID: 9614678
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. An information handling system comprising: a device; a baseboard management controller in communication with the device via a peripheral component interconnect bus, the baseboard management controller configured to determine that a license is unassigned to the device and to extract a peripheral component interconnect identifier associated with the device in response to a request for information about the device; and a license manager subsystem in communication with the baseboard management controller, the license manager subsystem configured to send the request for information about the device to the baseboard management controller, to receive the peripheral component interconnect identifier in response to the request, to send the peripheral component interconnect identifier to a license server via the baseboard management controller as a licensing request for the license, to receive the license from the license server with the license based on the peripheral component interconnect identifier, to assign the license to the device in response to receipt of the license, and to display, via a licensing graphical user interface, one of a plurality of icons, wherein each icon is associated with a message associated with a status of the device communication via the peripheral component interconnect bus with the baseboard management controller, wherein each icon is associated with one of a warning message, a healthy device message, and an error message, to determine whether a delete action in the licensing graphical user interface is selected, and if the delete action is selected to determine whether the license is to be removed or all licenses associated with the device are to be removed, in response to only the license being selected, to remove the license from the device and un-assign the license, and in response to all of the licenses being selected, to remove all of the licenses associated with the device and un-assign all of the licenses at once.