Patent ID: 8510422
Filing Date: 2013-08-13
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. An information handling system, comprising: at least one processing device; at least one external input/output (I/O) interface coupled to the at least one processing device; a remote access controller coupled to the one or more external I/O interfaces and further coupled to the at least one processing device via a communication bus; persistent storage coupled to the remote access controller with the remote access controller being coupled between the persistent storage and the at least one processing device and one or more external I/O interfaces, the remote access controller being programmed to manage the persistent storage and the remote access controller and the persistent storage each being internal components of the information handling system; and a server management framework present on the persistent storage, the server management framework including one or more server management functions that each include a configuration layer, the remote access controller being programmed to execute the server management framework to load the one or more server management functions on the at least one processing device of the information handling system; wherein the remote access controller is further programmed to execute the server management framework to access a configuration plug-in from one or more external devices across the one or more external I/O interfaces, the configuration plug-in including a configuration layer; wherein the remote access controller is further programmed to execute the server management framework to extend the configuration layer of the server management framework across the one or more external I/O interfaces to include the configuration layer of the configuration plug-in; and wherein the remote access controller is further programmed to execute the server management framework to then load the one or more server management functions on the at least one processing device with the one or more server management functions extended to include the configuration layer of the configuration plug-in; wherein the server management framework includes a plug-in registration service, the remote access controller being further programmed to execute the plug-in registration service to access a plug-in registration of the configuration plug-in from one or more external devices across the one or more external I/O interfaces and to execute the plug-in registration service of the server management framework to extend the configuration layer of the server management framework across the one or more external I/O interfaces to include the configuration layer of the configuration plug-in; and wherein the one or more server management functions comprise a graphical user interface (“GUI”) XML profile and GUI processing module that allow a user to control enablement and disablement of other server management functions.