System and method to monitor usage of information handling system using baseboard management controller

• Main Authors: Mundt, Kevin Warren, Vega, Juan R, Hass, Jon Robert
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 06.09.2022
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

Methods and systems for monitoring, by a baseboard management controller, a network interface of an information handling system, identifying one or more management information exchanges between the information handling system and a plurality of information handling systems, identifying one or more telemetry metrics associated with the one or more management information exchanges on a hardware level, storing the one or more telemetry metrics into a telemetry metrics database of the information handling system, transmitting a telemetry metrics report including the one or more telemetry metrics to a service provider for analysis, analyzing, by the service provider, the telemetry metrics report to indicate a percent usage of an overall usage capacity associated with each device of a plurality of devices of the information handling system, and transmitting a usage report to each of the plurality of information handling systems based on the analysis of the telemetry metrics report.