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AMT SOL Device IDs

By Lance Atencio (Intel) (21 posts) on September 29, 2010 at 3:29 pm
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I was recently asked to provide a list of the PCI device IDs for the AMT virtual Serial-over-LAN (SOL) devices. This seemed like a relatively easy task. Then I realized that there were different IDs for each version of AMT. And there are more than one possible ID for each version. And they are not all [...]

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Java Brewed for WS-Management

By Lance Atencio (Intel) (21 posts) on April 28, 2010 at 11:51 am
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For all of you Java developers out there that have be asking for some new tools to help with your Intel® Active Management Technology solutions, your time has come. I’d like to introduce you to the Intel® WS-Management Java Client Library, available for download here. This download contains source code for a library that can [...]

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Wireless Networking in Intel® AMT 6.0

By Lance Atencio (Intel) (21 posts) on March 30, 2010 at 8:14 am
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The wireless networking capabilities have been extended in the 6.0 release of Intel® AMT to include the following: Automatic synchronization of wireless profiles from the host operating system Support for remote access over wireless Control over host connectivity during Intel® AMT redirection.  For more details please refer to the documentation in the new Intel® AMT [...]

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Keeping Time with Intel® AMT

By Lance Atencio (Intel) (21 posts) on February 25, 2010 at 3:46 pm
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The date/time used by Intel® Active Management Technology (AMT) is maintained by a protected real time clock (PRTC) running within the Manageability Engine.  Clock Usage The clock is used for a variety of reasons in AMT including date/time checks required for TLS and Kerberos usage, timestamps for events and logging, and maintaining alarms for the [...]

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Welcome to Intel® AMT 6.0

By Lance Atencio (Intel) (21 posts) on February 4, 2010 at 12:28 pm
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The buzz started at the Intel Developer Forum last year and continues today with the all new 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ processor business event. I highly encourage you to take a look at the information available in the latest event. Along with the launch of the new vPro comes the long awaited 6.0 version of [...]

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New preview of Intel AMT SCS 6.0 available

By Lance Atencio (Intel) (21 posts) on September 3, 2009 at 7:21 am
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Sprint 3 of the Intel(R) AMT Setup and Configuration Service 6.0 is now available and can be downloaded HERE. This is another pre-release version in a series that is being provided for you to try out and provide feedback. There are two versions that you can get, the full version and the lightweight version. -This full version enables [...]

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Manageabilty Community Languages - Poll results

By Lance Atencio (Intel) (21 posts) on August 31, 2009 at 8:28 am
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In the Manageability Developer Community we continue to try to find ways to help users get the information they need quickly and more efficiently. To help us better understand the needs of our community users, we recently posted a poll on preferred reading languages for the content on our site. Here are the results: *Updated Results* [...]

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Working with Intel AMT and Linux

By Lance Atencio (Intel) (21 posts) on August 21, 2009 at 10:49 am
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It is not that easy. Well, not that working with AMT is easy in general, but working with AMT and Linux is certainly not as easy as working with AMT and Windows, IMHO. And I think it is mainly due to fewer resources being available for Linux. But before I go any further with this topic I must state [...]

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Intern Manageability Community Project

By Lance Atencio (Intel) (21 posts) on June 5, 2009 at 8:09 am
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We have a new effort underway to find areas of improvement for our Manageability Developer Community. Our summer intern has been given a project to develop an AMT prototype management application and he can only use online resources. So even though he will be sitting here with us, he will need to learn about AMT and get help in the same manner [...]

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Intel AMT Webinar on April 23

By Lance Atencio (Intel) (21 posts) on April 16, 2009 at 7:56 am
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I will be presenting the latest features of Intel AMT and the Manageability Developer Community in a live webinar on April 23rd. Here is a link to register for this free event: Latest Features of Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) and the Manageability Developer Community  (You'll need to log in or create an account and [...]

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Community Building Pays Off

By Lance Atencio (Intel) (21 posts) on April 1, 2009 at 1:42 pm
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  Take a look at our new featured community member on the Manageability Community main page. Javier has been an avid user of the forum for a long time, not only asking great questions but posting answers as well. He is also becoming a regular blog author with contributions that are very informative and useful.  [...]

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AMT Audit Log ... Let it Roll

By Lance Atencio (Intel) (21 posts) on March 24, 2009 at 2:52 pm
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When the Access Monitor (a.k.a. Audit Log) feature was added to AMT back in release 4.0 (see original blog here) there was concern expressed about the behaviour when the log became full. To ensure the Auditor had a chance to see all the events flagged as "critical", these events would not be allowed to run when the [...]

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HEY AMT!!! Time to wake up

By Lance Atencio (Intel) (21 posts) on March 20, 2009 at 3:03 pm
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  Have you ever been working and had a patch come down from your IT department that you had to install now. Or how about a virus scan that brought your machine to a crawl in the middle of your work. If so, then you may want AMT Alarm Clock, a new feature in the [...]

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POLL Results: Intel® AMT Development Environment Preferences

By Lance Atencio (Intel) (21 posts) on March 19, 2009 at 2:34 pm
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  As part of our effort to build a better community, we have started posting polls to help improve our understanding of the wants and needs of Intel AMT Developers. The results of these polls are provided to our product development teams and influence future releases. I put up the second poll in this series [...]

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Building a Community

By Lance Atencio (Intel) (21 posts) on February 12, 2009 at 10:10 am
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I'm a rather private person and the thought of having my picture available for the world to view online made me feel a bit nervous. With all the privacy issues and concerns in the news, who knows what sinister folk are out there ready to take advantage of my extremely public information. I'm still uneasy about my blogs being [...]

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AMT Application Developer Heaven

By Lance Atencio (Intel) (21 posts) on February 9, 2009 at 2:11 pm
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Windows, Visual Studio 2005, C# ... Linux, Eclipse, C++ ... Windows or Linux, Java, VI/notepad ... There are many choices for developing Intel Active Management Technology applications, but these choices are often restricted, or at least influenced, by the tools, samples and kits that we provide. What if you could develop using any environment you wanted? Fantasize [...]

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Access Monitor & Audit Log - What's in a name

By Lance Atencio (Intel) (21 posts) on October 15, 2008 at 1:52 pm
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You may be familiar with the new feature in AMT 4.0/5.0 that allows an AMT user to be setup to monitor selected events independent of the administrator ... but what is this feature called? Not too long ago I wrote about this new feature as Audit Log. You will also see it called Audit Log [...]

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WebUI issues with IE and AD

By Lance Atencio (Intel) (21 posts) on October 10, 2008 at 11:29 am
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If you have extended Active Directory (AD) for use with your AMT clients you may have issues connecting to the AMT WebUI for those machines using Internet Explorer (IE). This is related to authentication settings. If you experience this problem, you can first try another browser (e.g. Firefox) to see if you can connect to [...]

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AMT SDK 5.0 vs AMT SDK 4.0

By Lance Atencio (Intel) (21 posts) on September 24, 2008 at 9:12 am
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The recently released Active Management Technology Software Development Kit version 5.0 (AMT SDK 5.0) adds support for the new AMT 5.0 which is part of vPro 2008 desktop platform (code named McCreary), by building upon the features in the AMT SDK 4.0 which was for the mobile platform (code named Montevina). Take a look at [...]

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Who wants another audit?

By Lance Atencio (Intel) (21 posts) on August 18, 2008 at 2:38 pm
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Audit Log is an optional feature available in AMT 4.0 that provides a place to record events and introduces a new type of user called Auditor. Key features of the Audit Log are: Auditor user type that cannot be removed or altered by the Administrator Policy based events that are selected by the Auditor to [...]

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AMT SDK 4.0 ready for download

By Lance Atencio (Intel) (21 posts) on August 18, 2008 at 9:24 am
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The latest version of the AMT SDK is now available for download in the Manageability Community. This SDK supports the new features of AMT 4.0 available in the recently launched Intel Centrino 2 with vPro, codenamed Montevina. The key new features of AMT 4.0 that are supported in the AMT SDK 4.0: Client Initiated Remote [...]

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