Don’t brick your Edge
One particularly nasty issue with edge management can occur during device maintenance. Let’s say you have an Edge device at an oil drilling platform in the field – miles from the nearest town, let alone a service center or airport. The device is used to control the drilling operations at that site.
That device has been scheduled to have its OS updated to the latest version or to apply a security patch, but something goes wrong during the update. The OS is partially updated but left in a state that it will no longer be able to run or restart. Your entire drilling operation is out of business, and there is no way to quickly take it into an IT site to be fixed. That can be a costly failure. Your Edge device has essentially become a brick, and further has bricked your drilling operations at that site.
One of the key features we see being added to fleet management is a bootstrapping mechanism that, in these circumstances, will reboot back...
