Out-Of-Band (OOB) Manageability allows administrators to remotely perform actions such as power up, power down, system updates and more on network assets or edge devices. Using this capability allows IT professionals save a lot of time by avoiding physical presence to perform OOB operations.

Through this container Azure developers can extend existing solutions to include OOB Manageability. Also referred as User OOB Application for Azure IoT, it is a microservice that extends Open Active Management Technology Cloud Toolkit (Open AMT Cloud Toolkit) with Azure IoT Services such as Event Handler, Device Management SDK and SQLite Database. The Server module listens to any new edge devices connected to Azure IoT Hub and initiates client setup to enable call home. The type and status of edge devices can be displayed through Power BI along with other use case Telemetry.

Highlights:

• Out-Of-Band Manageability of remote edge devices.
• Remote Power Control, BIOS access and OS Recovery and more through Web UI.
• Single Power BI dashboard for OOB managed devices and use case applications.
• Compatible with 2.3 version of Client (RPC), Server (MPS, RPS) and Sample Web UI modules of Open AMT Cloud Toolkit.
• Supported Configurations (OS):
• Development Device (VM in the Cloud): Ubuntu 20.04
• Edge Device: Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows 10 and above (for EFLOW use cases)
• Supported Hardware Configuration:
• Edge devices with Intel® vPro Platforms having Intel® AMT version 7.0 or higher. Typically, Intel® Core™ i5 and higher.

Tutorial to deploy through Azure IoT Hub can be found here .

Find developer-ready kits with Intel® hardware here (includes both Intel® vPro and non-vPro devices).

ISVs and solution developers can leverage Open AMT Cloud Toolkit and integrate through APIs GitHub to develop customized Manageability solutions.