Patent ID: 8260741

Claim:
A method for remotely managing a host computing device, comprising: sending, from a remote application, a package to the host computing device via an out-of-band connection; receiving, by the host computing device, the sent package; parsing the package, the package comprising one or more packets, wherein each packet is a size capable of being accommodated by the out-of-band-connection; determining an action requested based on the parsed package; and performing the requested action, wherein sending packages via the out-of-band-connection comprises communicating packets to a baseboard management controller (BMC) on the host computing device, wherein the BMC communicates with an operating system (OS) agent on the host computing device, and wherein the requested action is selected from a group consisting of request OS version, perform shutdown, request BIOS version, request SMBIOS information, request independent hardware vendor (IHV) information, and update host computing device firmware.