US Patent 10177974 Configuring managed server

An example managed server system (102) includes a managed server (104), a baseboard management controller (BMC) (108), and a shared memory (106). An example configuration process (200) includes transmitting (201), by the BMC, a network-address request over an out-of-band network; receiving (202) received configuration information; writing (203), by the BMC, stored configuration information to the shared memory; accessing (204), by the managed server, the shared memory to read the stored configuration information; and configuring (205) the managed server using the stored configuration information.