Patent ID: 8769070

Claim:
A method for data communication in a Serial Attached Small Computer System Interface (SAS) domain, comprising: designating a unique port number for communicating with the SAS domain via an Ethernet connection; executing a server application on an active device within the SAS domain, the active device connected to a remote client via the Ethernet connection; receiving at least one Internet Protocol Suite command from the remote client via the Ethernet connection, wherein the received at least one Internet Protocol Suite command utilizes the unique port number; converting an Ethernet frame of the at least one Internet Protocol Suite command to at least one SAS frame for out-of-band management within the SAS domain; routing the at least one SAS frame via a SAS data path to a SAS target device connected to the active device, the SAS target device corresponding to a field of the Internet Protocol Suite command; and utilizing the data communication for out-of-band management of the SAS target device.