US 11,863,414 B1
Running network diagnostics on a server
Fred Allison Bower, III, Durham, NC (US); Shyam Sareen, Cary, NC (US); and Jarrod B Johnson, Raleigh, NC (US)
Filed by Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte Ltd., Singapore (SG)
Filed on Dec. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/090,561.
Int. Cl. H04L 43/08 (2022.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01)
CPC H04L 43/08 (2013.01) [G06F 9/4416 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer program product comprising a non-volatile computer readable storage device and non-transitory program instructions embodied therein, the program instructions being configured to be executable by a central processing unit of a baseboard management controller of a server to cause the baseboard management controller to perform operations comprising:
receiving a message from a system management computer, wherein the message instructs the baseboard management controller to cause a host central processing unit on the server to run network diagnostics on a host network physically connected to the server; and
instructing, in response to receiving the message, the host central processing unit to boot from a bootable image stored on a data storage device hosted by the baseboard management controller and run a network diagnostic utility included with the bootable image to monitor network traffic on the host network.