Abstract: Managing IP address detection, including obtaining, by system management console that manages multiple computing systems, a media access control (MAC) address of each of the computing systems from a respective baseboard management controller (BMC) of each of the computing systems; storing a database table indicating the MAC address for each of the computing systems; identifying, from a host network, messages directed to the computing systems; obtaining, from each of the messages, a MAC address associated with the message; comparing the MAC address for a particular message with the MAC addresses stored by the database table for each of the computing systems; determining whether the MAC address for the particular message is associated with a particular computing system; when it is determined that the MAC address for the particular message is associated with a computing system, providing the IP address indicated by the message to the BMC of the computing system.