AMD are all about the out of band management - Management that operates with hardware resources and components that are independent of OS control. Think like an iLo card in an HP Server.
They are part of the DMTF standards body that are working to make standards for these types of devices and the functionality they offer. This should ensure all the vendors products are interoperable. In this case the standard discussed is DASH - Desktop and Mobile Architecture for Systems Hardware. It leverages WS-Management which is another DMTF standard.
The kinds of things you can do are:
- Remote power on/off - wake for patching
- Remote boot
- Serial console redirect - change BIOS, watch boot sequence.
- HW and SW asset inventory - saves desktop visit if something fails.
Then some demos which were deathly dull, I have seen someone remotely power on/off a PC probably 5 times now!
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