Patent ID: 9130903
Filing Date: 2015-09-08
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for using standards-based functionality to provide unified management, via out of band management communication, for a plurality of remote desktop sessions by executing an enhanced management access point (EMAP) on a first physical machine that is communicating with the plurality of remote desktop sessions, the method comprising: managing the plurality of remote desktop sessions via the out of band management communication; accessing a directory service executing on a second physical machine, the directory service comprising information associated with the plurality of remote desktop sessions; determining a location of each of the plurality of remote desktop sessions to be managed and polling and/or querying at least one of a third or a fourth physical machine providing the plurality of remote desktop sessions; monitoring, by the EMAP, the plurality of remote desktop sessions and a plurality of server sessions including a server session executing on the third physical machine or a virtual machine executing on the third physical machine, wherein the server session provides access to at least one application or file; determining, by the EMAP, a first level of activity of a desktop session executing on the third physical machine or a virtual machine executing on the third physical machine by accessing the directory service, wherein the first level of activity is one of: active, inactive, hibernating and standby; receiving, by the EMAP, a notification of a migration of the desktop session to a fourth physical machine, the desktop session maintaining the first level of activity on the fourth physical machine; instructing, by the EMAP, a management component on the fourth physical machine to modify the desktop session from the first level of activity to a second level of activity, wherein the second level of activity is different than the first level of activity and is one of: active, inactive, hibernating and standby; updating, by the EMAP, the directory service to indicate the second level of activity of the desktop session responsive to the modification; instructing, by the EMAP, the management component of the third physical machine to control a power level of the fourth physical machine; and isolating, by the EMAP, the third physical machine by turning off a network interface card (NIC) of the fourth physical machine.