Edge or fog gateway assisted out-of-band remote management for managed client devices

A system for establishing a remote management session of a client device, the system comprising:

• a management server device including:
• a processor;
• a memory coupled to the processor;
• and
• a network interface operatively coupled to the processor and the memory and including a management port through which to send or receive a network packet that includes a gateway identifier;
• a gateway device communicatively coupled to the management server device, the gateway device including a remote communications manager coupled to a local area network (LAN) port and a wide area network (WAN) port, and wherein the management server device uses the gateway identifier to identify the gateway device to invoke the client device to establish the remote management session through an out-of-band (OOB) LAN connection with the gateway device;
• and
• a remote management console communicatively coupled to the management server device and the gateway device, wherein the management server device is to invoke the remote management console to initiate a peer-to-peer in-band keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) remote management session between the management server device and the gateway device to provide KVM data packets to perform diagnosis or repair of the client device.

An apparatus for establishing a remote management session of a client device, the apparatus comprising:

• a processor;
• a memory coupled to the processor;
• and
• the processor operatively coupled to the memory to:
• receive, through a network port, a wide area network (WAN) network packet including a request for a keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) remote management session that includes an identifier of a gateway device coupled to a local area network (LAN) of the client device to be remotely managed by the apparatus serving as a remote server device;
• use the identifier of the gateway device to assist in invoking, by a pairing module, an out-of-band (OOB) connection between the client device and the gateway device;
• and
• invoke, by the pairing module of the remote server device via the OOB connection or another OOB connection, a remote management console to initiate a peer-to-peer in-band KVM remote management session between the remote server device and the gateway device,
• wherein the client device is to send and receive KVM data packets through an in-band connection of the LAN to and from the gateway device to establish the KVM remote management session, and the remote management console is to provide the KVM data Packets to the client device via the gateway device to perform diagnosis or repair of the client device.