Remote monitoring and management will be critical if organizations are going to move data to the cloud. After all, without the ability to remotely manage systems, OPEX expenditures may ultimately outweigh any reduction in CAPEX realized. Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP), a lesser-known tool for remote management used in automated systems to support monitoring and control functions, is a great tool for enhancing .

Delivered through baseboard management controllers, MCTP is a key tool to continuously monitor and control remote systems to proactively monitor servers to keep them running at peak performance and prevent failures before they happen. An important MCTP benefit is it allows out-of-band access to, and management of, I/O and storage systems, and can be used even if a server has crashed.

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Defined by the (DMTF), MCTP is designed for use over multiple types of buses (e.g. SMBus/I2C, PCIe), and can be used with all types of I/O (e.g., Network Interface Cards, Serial Access SCSI and Fibre Channel), increasing system availability and, thus, increasing business operational performance.