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

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method for remote management of a bare-metal host machine, comprising:
providing a baseboard management controller (BMC) in the bare-metal host machine, the BMC enabling control of the bare-metal host machine independently of an operating system (OS) operable on the bare-metal host machine;
adapting the BMC to incorporate a remote management agent, the remote management agent configured with credentials for identity verification with an external cloud-based endpoint;
subject to a verified identity, using the remote management agent for polling the external cloud-based endpoint to obtain remote management instructions applicable to the bare-metal host machine; and
operating the BMC to execute, on the bare-metal host machine, the remote management instructions obtained by the remote management agent;
wherein the obtained 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.