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August 8, 2011 12:00 AM PDT


Overview:

Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) Linux support includes two components that allow interaction between the Intel® AMT FW and the Linux OS: Intel® MEI (Intel® Management Engine Interface) driver and LMS (Local Management Service) driver. Intel® MEI driver allows application to communicate with the FW using host interface, and LMS driver allows applications to access the Intel® AMT FW via the local Intel® Management Engine Interface (Intel® MEI).

In addition, Intel has validated a kernel patch to enable IDE-redirection. This is a community maintained patch, but Intel is distributing the version used in the validation of the other Intel® AMT components released here.

This is the production release of Intel® ME drivers. This release can be used on final production platforms

Intel® Management Engine Interface driver:

The Intel® MEI driver allows applications to access the Intel® Management Engine FW via the host interface (as opposed to a network interface). The Intel® MEI driver is meant to be used mainly by the Local Manageability Service (LMS). Messages from the Intel® MEI driver are sent to the systems log (i.e. /var/log/messages). Once the Intel® MEI driver is running, an application can open a file to it, connect to an application on the firmware side, and send and receive messages to that application.

Download the MEI driver

Intel® Local Manageability Service:

The Local Manageability Service (LMS) allows applications to access the Intel® Active Management Technology FW via the local Intel® Management Engine Interface (Intel® MEI). The LMS is dependent on the Intel® MEI driver. Intel® MEI driver should be installed prior to installing the LMS. The LMS runs as a daemon. Messages from the service will be sent to the syslog. The LMS messages will be marked with a source of "LMS". Once the LMS is running, it listens for incoming connection requests on the following ports:

  • Port 16992 for soap and WS-Management requests.
  • Port 623 for WS-Management requests.

If secure connection with the Intel® AMT device is enabled (TLS), LMS also listens on these ports:

  • Port 16993 for secure soap and WS-Management requests.
  • Port 664 for secure WS-Management requests.

Download the LMS driver

IDER Patch:

IDE-Redirection is a protocol defined for Intel Active Management Technology that allows floppy disk/CD transfers from a remote location to a local host. This is similar to existing methods such as PXE or drive mapping, but is done in an OS agnostic manner in order to permit out-of-band maintenance and management activities. The community supports this patch, but the one provided here represents the version of the patch validated by Intel for the components released here. The patch was validated on kernel 2.6.32 of SLED11.

Download the IDER Patch

AMT Configuration Utility:

The AMT Configuration Utility is a command-line utility used to automate configuratio or maintenance tasks on an Intel® vPro system running Linux. The utility can be run locally or can be scripted. The XML file used as an input argument nust be configured through another method described in the "Intel®_SCS_7.2_User_Guide", which is part of the download package.

This release Includes the following components:

AMT Configuration Utility (ACU) - previously known as the Activator, this CLI-based utility allows configuring systems Client Control Mode

Documentation - How to use ACU on Linux

Download the AMT Configuration Utility

Additional Information:

Linux Enablement Guide