Network resource management system utilizing physical network identification for privileged network access

摘要

The disclosed network resource management system employs a hardware configuration management (HCM) information handling system (IHS) that may couple to a single administered IHS or to multiple administered IHSs via an administrative network. An HCM tool in the HCM IHS may generate, modify and store hardware configuration information, including physical network identifications (PNet IDs), in an HCM database and share the HCM database with the administered IHSs. The administered IHS may be a privileged network access (PNA) IHS. The PNA IHS may receive a privileged network access management (PNAM) database from a PNAM IHS via the administrative network. The PNA tool may extract hardware configuration information, including PNet IDs, from the HCM database and privileged network access information, including PNet IDs, from the PNAM database. The PNA tool may utilize the information, including PNet IDs, to enable the PNA IHS to limit access to privileged networks.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a hypervisor of a privileged network access information handling system (IHS), a hardware configuration manager (HCM) database that includes configuration information including physical network identifier (PNet ID) entries and respective associated physical adapter type entries and respective associated logical partition (LPAR) access information entries, wherein the configuration information identifies a machine serial number of the privileged network access IHS, identifies a physical adapter of the privileged network access IHS, and indicates that the given physical adapter connects to a given physical network having a given PNet ID; receiving, by the hypervisor of the privileged network access IHS, the PNAM database that includes privileged network access information including physical network identifier (PNet ID) entries, each PNet ID entry being associated with a respective identifier of a respective administered IHS, wherein the privileged network access information identifies the machine serial number of the privileged network access IHS, associates the machine serial number with the given physical network, and indicates that the given physical network is a privileged network; transmitting, by the hypervisor of the privileged network access IHS, the HCM database to a privileged network access (PNA) tool of the privileged network access IHS; transmitting, by the hypervisor of the privileged network access IHS, the PNAM database to a privileged network access (PNA) tool; extracting, by the PNA tool, configuration information from the HCM database, the configuration information including PNet ID entries and respective associated physical adapter ID) entries and respective associated logical partition (LPAR) access information entries, thus providing extracted network configuration information, wherein the PNA tool grants the privileged network access IHS privileged access to the given physical network based on the network access information in the PNAM database.