Abstract: A system and corresponding method for providing clustered/fail-over remote hardware management includes a plurality of servers, each having one or more hardware devices. The servers includes a home server and one or more neighboring servers. The home server includes one or more native embedded remote assistants (ERAs) capable of monitoring the hardware devices in the home server, and each neighboring server includes one or more backup ERAs. The clustered/fail-over system further includes a remote management station (RMS) coupled to the native ERA and the backup ERAs, and capable of remotely managing operation of the plurality of servers. Each native ERA is also monitored by the backup ERAs for failure. If one of the native ERAs fails, the backup ERAs monitors the hardware devices in the home server, and reports failure of the hardware devices to the RMS.