Patent ID: 11909575
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 5:
6. One or more hardware-based non-transitory computer-readable memory devices storing computer-executable instructions which, upon execution by one or more processors disposed in a computing device in a cloud-based datacenter, cause the computing device to:
instantiate a polling endpoint configured to provide remote management instructions to a bare-metal host machine over a network;
in response to a request to the polling endpoint from a remote management agent operating on a baseboard management controller (BMC) instantiated on the bare-metal host machine, verify that the bare-metal host machine is associated with a customer subscription;
in response to the verifying, send remote management instructions to the remote management agent in the BMC of the bare-metal host machine over the network;
wherein the remote management instructions comprise a pointer to an operating system (OS) image to be downloaded and installed by the BMC on the bare-metal host machine.