Design of platform management provider based on HPI manageability block using CIM/WBEM standards

Abstract

Traditional management solutions have not taken any management coverage on the OS-absent phase, which is composed of two subphases; out-of-service and out-of-band. This is because those management solutions use agents on the OS, which are fatefully dependent on the state of the OS. An effective out-of-band management solution enables remote "lights out" management infrastructure and logical consolidation of data centers. Using this infrastructure, we can deal remotely with most cases of dispatching engineers for high availability and serviceability and then dramatically reduce management costs. In this paper, we present the platform management provider which offers a standardized approach to enhancing manageability during the OS-absent phase as well as OS-resident phase