Patent ID: 11604745

Abstract:
An information handling system may include a processor, a device communicatively coupled to a processor via a communications link including a cable assembly, and a management controller communicatively coupled to the processor and communicatively coupled to the device and the cable assembly via a sideband interface, and configured to: retrieve, via the sideband interface, self-describing signal integrity critical parameters from non-transitory computer-readable media integral to the device; retrieve, via the sideband interface, self-describing signal integrity critical parameters from non-transitory computer-readable media integral to the cable assembly; combine the self-describing signal integrity critical parameters from non-transitory computer-readable media integral to the device and the self-describing signal integrity critical parameters from non-transitory computer-readable media integral to the cable assembly into aggregate signal integrity critical parameters; and perform an action relevant to the communications link based on the aggregate signal integrity critical parameters.