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By JE (Intel) (2 posts) on October 28, 2006 at 2:18 pm

Welcome to my initial post. For a quick introduction, I am involved in the deployment of Intel manageability technologies such as Intel® Active Management Technology (AMT) currently part of the Intel® vPro(tm) platform. My focus is working with the application developers of our large ISV partners. This role allows me to influence the design and development phases of technologies.

Although the technology was first deployed in 2005, 2006 is really the year that AMT is being made available via large OEMs and the greater ISV community for the enterprise desktop market.

My thought for this blog is to discuss potential hardware and software synergy opportunities for manageability solutions. Topics ranging from "if platforms would just do ..., then we could offer customers the ability to manage the systems more .... effectively", to "Intel AMT has some interesting capabilities, but if it did ..., then it would be of much more value to my customer." Also of interest is what tools, features, standards, capabilities are of specific interest to make technologies such as Intel AMT more "ISV developer-friendly."

So, welcome to my blog and don't hesitate to reply with your thoughts and/or anything else on your mind.

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Comments (13)

November 22, 2006 1:18 AM PST argarciajr

Hi! I'm Ton from Phil. and I was currently assigned by our company to research on remote manageability technologies. I'm hoping you could help me on this. We have just currently purchased PCs powered by Intel Core 2 Duo processors. My first question is are all Core 2 Duo processors already have the Intel vPro technology or it's still a different thing. Second question is how can we implement the vPro technology and how is it related to Intel AMT. Thanks very much!

December 2, 2006 5:36 AM PST Jerome

Hi Ton. Intel Core 2 Duo processors are a key component of Intel vPro platforms. So is Intel Active Management Technology. So, if you have an Intel vPro platform, you will have both of those components together. The Intel Core 2 Duo processor can be found on many different platforms in addition to those with Intel vPro technology. One of the first things you can do to evaluate Intel vPro technology is to visit http://www.intel.com/vPro. There you find lots of information on the benefits as well as industry partners with Intel AMT support. Good luck!

March 14, 2007 3:34 AM PDT jojo

hi! just would like to inquire on how can we implement the vPro technology on our units that are capable for vPro. Do we need to purchase a software from Intel or just configure within the unit itself?

September 17, 2007 1:52 AM PDT Ahmed Mohamed Youssef

Hi Jerome, Am an undergraduated student at faculty of Computers and Information Cairo University, Egypt. I've been concerned about doing some Managebility but i rare resources about what it is - Managebility- and What can be useful using the intel's Active Management Technology, i've also seen that the DTK is only for Windows Users as it depends on the FrameWork 2.0 or above, is there a way me and my friends start doing one for Linux Lovers, the SDK is there for linux as i can remember. We thought we'd use the DTK to do the apps we need but we figured out we are going to be re-invinting the wheel again instead of re-using it. so we lake ideas about what can be done -that hasnt been done yet- thanks and sorry for the long post. A.M.Y

September 17, 2007 7:25 AM PDT JE (Intel) Total Points: 200 Registered User

Yes, the DTK was developed based on the Windows portion of the SDK. To my knowledge, this hasn't been done for Linux yet. A java implementation would probably round out the field ;) Good luck!

September 20, 2007 12:37 AM PDT Ahmed Mohamed Youssef

well, i guess we can make the implementation of the Linux part of the DTK with Java as a Point of Start. but we are aiming to get what's more than this. We Need to make our graduation Project for this year based on Intel's AMT as it's the latest we knew about and it's really cool to get to know it. Would you Support us with Ideas we already have a some but we need to go more than those.

September 20, 2007 5:47 AM PDT JE (Intel) Total Points: 200 Registered User

Another good place to get ideas and support is the community forum located at http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/category/manageability/ Happy coding!

September 20, 2007 5:51 AM PDT JE (Intel) Total Points: 200 Registered User

My previous post pointed to the general blog forum. I meant to point to the discussion board located at http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/isn/Community/en-us/forum.....Forum.aspx :)

September 20, 2007 9:51 AM PDT Shmuel Gershon (Intel) Total Points: 2,750 Registered User

Hi Ahmed, it is cool to hear that you are doing a Graduation project about and based on Intel AMT. Please share (if you can) on which topics you are focusing, I am quite curious... :)

September 23, 2007 2:54 AM PDT psychokiller1986@gmail.com

Well Shmuel, Nowadays my team and i are reading all about manageability as functions and doing a survey here in Egypt of what IT Depts. in major companies are doing for manageability. We are aiming to develop a whole manageability suite using AMT on 2 phases: 1) Extending the DTK there for Windows with Framework 3.0 to get some fancy seamless interfaces of the framework using Microsoft Expression Studio -Blend, Design and Web- 2) Writing the DTK for Linux using Java 6 to get the part of Java2D and OpenGL pipeline for interfaces also. in both cases we are thinking to add a vpn Client to be in the BIOS or somewhere, so that where ever the computer is connected - case laptop and abroad- to the network then it's connected to the Company's network. we still dont know if that is possible or not. but this is one thingie lots more if we i can contact you directly ;)

February 28, 2008 11:06 AM PST David Ding

I'm trying to install AMT SOL/LMS, AMT HECI silently on our new Dell Optiplex 755 but can't get it to work. Following is my code in a batch. The first one is Chipset software installaiton utility and it seems working. With the other two it seems to run but exited after a couple seconds. any advice? :IntelAMT Echo Install Intel AMT Chipset Software Echo Install Intel AMT Chipset Software >>%systemroot%\setuplog1.log Echo Installing Utility Driver. c: CD \Drivers\Dell\GX755\Chipset\Chipset1 start /wait setup.exe -s -sms Echo Utility Driver Installed, rc=%ERRORLEVEL% >>%systemroot%\setuplog1.log; Echo Installing Intel AMT SOL/ LMS Driver c: CD \Drivers\Dell\GX755\Chipset\Chipset2 start /wait setup.exe -s -sms Echo Intel AMT SOL/ LMS Driver installed, rc=%ERRORLEVEL% >>%systemroot%\setuplog1.log Echo Installing Intel AMT HECI Driver c: CD \Drivers\Dell\GX755\Chipset\Chipset3 start /wait setup.exe -s -sms Echo Intel AMT HECI Driver installed, rc=%ERRORLEVEL% >>%systemroot%\setuplog1.log

February 28, 2008 11:46 AM PST Jerome Esteban

Hi David. Have you looked at any items on the vPro expert blog (http://communities.intel.com/openport/blogs/proexpert)? There is good information and experience with Dell platforms. Good luck!

February 28, 2008 12:06 PM PST Jerome Esteban

You may also want to check your BIOS settings to see that Intel AMT is enabled and that the SOL (or KT) and IDER devices are enabled. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what the Dell BIOS screens look like.

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