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.