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Shmuel can be found at the Testing Laboratory validating internal Intel® Active Management Technology features. On his browser's favorites folder he stores anything funny, pages related to Software Testing, Open Source, script languages and also movies, harmonica playing or graphic design. Shmuel writings can be found also at http://testing.gershon.info/ . |
The vPro Innovation Contest -- What's Your Bright Idea?
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (26 posts) on July 27, 2010 at 10:54 am
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You've been following the development of our manageability products for years. You've been active (or lurking) at our forums, trying to understand the ins and outs of our interface. You had built this monstrous fanstastic solution that makes your work easier and more effective! Now it is time to show the world what you've got. Intel [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, Bright Idea, contest, idf, innovation, prize, video, vpro
Wrapping all Intel AMT software together - AMT SW, part 11
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (26 posts) on April 2, 2010 at 3:25 am
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Hello again! We went over a lot of details during the past 10 posts that explained each and every part of the Intel AMT software (full list at the bottom). We've learnt what is each software, how it works and how it's configured. Now that we know so much about the different apps, what's left? Well, [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, complete, comprehensive, HECI, IMSS, LMS, model, popup, privacy icon, software, uns, wrap
We keep gaming: Intel's IM3 Unseen Forces
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (26 posts) on February 18, 2010 at 11:53 am
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Hi All! This is only a short notice to let you know that the IT Manager 3: Unseen Forces game has just added a new facets to its gameplay: A whole new -- and secret! -- floor with new puzzles Core intelligence with all new hardware parts! New manners to save energy at your virtual server [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: 3d game, 3d games, AMT, fun, Game, games, it, it manager, manager
The evolution of Intel AMT, generation to generation, version by version
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (26 posts) on December 25, 2009 at 4:19 am
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Happy holidays and a great new year to all! We were asked in the Manageability Forums the following question: "I have searched a bit but was quite difficult to find a list with the available AMT versions except this wikipedia entry that seems incomplete." This is a good question, certainly useful info for all. I [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, differences, evolution, generation, innovation, Intel AMT, New, version, versions, whats new
Intel AMT software: LMS, HECI, MEI... why do I need those? Part 10 in the series
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (26 posts) on December 18, 2009 at 5:23 am
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Hi again! In this post of the software series, we'll review the Local Manageability Service (or LMS). The LMS could have had his own dedicated post, but it is hard to write about LMS without talking about a driver called Intel MEI or HECI -- the origins of LMS are tightly tied with HECI and [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, HECI, Intel, LMS, MEI, software
Intel KVM: This is your SOL on Steroids
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (26 posts) on October 18, 2009 at 1:13 pm
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Intel AMT lets you connect to your managed computer remotely. SOL lets you connect to its COM port and control selected input/output. Nothing new there, right? In the last IDF, Intel pulled back the curtain on a revolutionary feature: Intel KVM. KVM stands for "Keyboard, Video and Mouse", and it lets you control the, er, [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: active management technology, AMT, Intel, kvm, Manageability, Remote Management, SOL, Steroids
IT manager, your game has evolved: IM3 Unseen Forces has new challenges!
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (26 posts) on September 29, 2009 at 7:58 am
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Everybody is playing IT Manager 3: Unseen Forces now :) Ok, not everybody, but there are many tens of thousands of players, competition is high, and a lot of changes were seen in the LeaderBoard. We have talked about this IT game in previous posts (here and here), but much of the renewed interest on the [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: Features, forces, Game, Intel, it, manager, New, options, unseen
RT @sgershon: #PC Remote Control through #Twitter - soon with Intel AMT ? :)
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (26 posts) on September 4, 2009 at 6:33 am
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#TweetMyPC is an app by @shobankr that allows one to remotely control their computer by Twitter messages. (For the uninitiated, Twitter is a very popular micro-blogging service, with ~10 million users). I'll not get into deep details about the application, but it does have many features (shutdown, restart, standby… even screenshot). While it doesn't have [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, future, Intel AMT, Local, Manageability, Remote Control, sgershon, twitter, web2.0
Intel Management and Security Status (IMSS), advanced configurations. Part 9
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (26 posts) on July 17, 2009 at 1:36 am
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Hello again! After having presented the brand new IMSS application in the last post, it is time to learn how to tweak this software to match a vendor or IT manager needs. We covered, for the old Intel AMT Status Icon (atchk and atchksrv, or the Privacy Icon), how to change the logo to a [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: advanced, AMT, application, Configuration, IMSS, Intel AMT, Intel Management and Security Status, popup, software
Intel AMT SW Part 8: Newfangled Intel Management and Security Status
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (26 posts) on June 23, 2009 at 10:34 pm
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Hi All, here's a new post in the series of thorough articles about Intel AMT software :). We've blogged about what the software is for, what is the UNS and how to work with the atchk status icon. But all that atchk notification information was relevant to Intel AMT up to version 3.x -- from [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, Intel, management, Newfangled, Part, security, status, SW
New options in IT Manager 3: Unseen Forces
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (26 posts) on June 6, 2009 at 11:38 am
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Extra! Extra! As blogged before, Intel has released a cool (no no, really) game called "IT Manager III: Unseen Forces". Full explanation about the game is here. The game was recently upgraded to include new features and options, so make sure to check out the game's page and play: http://itmanager3.intel.com/en-us/default.aspx. New Features: A few people [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: Features, forces, Game, Intel, it, manager, New, options, unseen
UNS "Failed to subscribe to local Intel AMT" Error Messages and how to fix them (Intel AMT SW, 7th part)
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (26 posts) on April 13, 2009 at 4:36 pm
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This post continues the previous installment in the Intel AMT software series. You may be interested in reading what is the UNS and how it works before proceeding. We learned about the inner flow of the User Notification Service and his use of SOAP protocol and HTTP... Being HTTP based has big advantages :) : [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, Configuration, error, error message, event, event viewer, message, software, uns, User Notification
How the UNS works. Part 6 in the Intel AMT software series.
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (26 posts) on April 13, 2009 at 3:21 pm
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Hi! In the last installment of this (lengthy :)) series, we explained what kind of information the User Notification Service (UNS) provides. We'll look this time at how the UNS service works, and how can it be configured and controlled. Note: Giving Intel AMT events information is not the only function of UNS, the app [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, Configuration, event, software, uns, User Notification
Intel technologies game: IT Manager 3: Unseen Forces
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (26 posts) on February 27, 2009 at 4:33 am
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So... Are you a skilled IT Manager? Or, did you ever wondered if you're fit to the job? Intel has released a new game: IT Manager 3: Unseen Forces. It is a promotional game, sure, but a very cool one. From the user guide: In IT Manager 3: Unseen Forces, you play the IT manager of [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, forces, Game, it, manager, promotion, unseen, vpro
Part 5: Detailed information to the user with the User Notification Service
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (26 posts) on February 25, 2009 at 3:19 pm
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Hello all. There's a lot of good action going on at the Manageability Community. So many interesting issues, that instead of writing posts I've been reading them. :) In the last three posts on this series, we saw the notification area icon of Intel® AMT versions up to 3.x in details (overview, setup, advanced config). [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: event, HECI, LMS, MEI, popup, status, uns
More configurations (disabling) of the Intel AMT icon. Part 4 in the Intel AMT software series
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (26 posts) on October 12, 2008 at 4:14 pm
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Hi! In the previous part of this series (part 1, part 2, part 3), we began describing the Intel AMT software, and the ways in which the Intel AMT System Status can be configured to suit a specific system, network or style. As we wrote in the past, this application unnoficially goes also by the names [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Configuring the notification area icon & app. Intel AMT SW Part 3
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (26 posts) on September 23, 2008 at 6:54 am
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(See Part 1 for an overview, and Part 2 for the icon introduction and screenshots) Hi All. Today we'll see some secret settings in Intel AMT software. Well, not so secret: They're all written in the software readme, but hey! Who reads the instructions? :) Also, your equipment manufacturer may have removed the readme file [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: amt dialog, amt pop, app, Configuration, configuring, icon, Intel AMT, notification area, pop-up, popup, privacy, privacy icon, software, SW
Intel AMT SW, part 2: The notification area icon - understanding the pop-up
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (26 posts) on September 15, 2008 at 1:26 am
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(Hello all, this is a delayed continuation from the Part 1 overview. Please see there the enumeration of all the software we'll see in the articles) Privacy: "\prī-vuh-sē, noun, freedom from unauthorized intrusion" (one definition from the Merriam Webster Dictionary). Following the need and willingness to be as transparent to the end-user as possible, Intel [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
The software bundled with Intel AMT: Part 1
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (26 posts) on July 20, 2008 at 8:43 am
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Intel AMT is basically a hardware/firmware solution where everything happens on the insides of the computer, in hardware and embedded software. The main interface is the network card - you control Intel AMT remotely. However, many utilities are available for controlling or receiving data from a local interface - on the computer in which Intel [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: atchk, interface, Local, Manageability, popup, software, uns
Feature Advantages - Intel AMT and ASF part 5 (final)
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (26 posts) on January 10, 2008 at 4:33 pm
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It's been a long time... :) There are many excuses I can come up for the time without posts, but not one is good enough... For example, I could 'blame' the birth of my new son, but Joey used the same situation as a writing subject, so that would make a lousy excuse now ;) . Pretexts [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Between Intel AMT and ASF, part 4
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (26 posts) on October 11, 2007 at 1:49 pm
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Hello all. In the previous three posts of this series (1, 2, 3), we talked about differences between the manageability two solutions, covering from the kind of network protocol used to the options available for security. This will be (for now) the last post about distinctions between them, and in the next one I'll focus [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Eating our own dog food - Intel AMT on our IT network
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (26 posts) on September 20, 2007 at 1:30 pm
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Intel's IT department is about to implement Intel AMT as an OOB manageability solution in the IT base. Gradually computers are being replaced, and the new computers we are getting are Intel vPro platforms with Intel AMT capabilities. This is great news for the Intel IT department, for the Intel Engineering departments, for the customers [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
More technology distinctions - Intel AMT vs. ASF, part 3
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (26 posts) on September 18, 2007 at 9:43 pm
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Hi :) (Please refer to the "part 1" and "part 2" posts of this series, in order to learn the evolution line of manageability solutions and the differences of Intel AMT). In this post, we'll continue comparing ASF and Intel AMT features, following the principles presented in the previous two posts. Part Three: Technology Differences (cont.) Alert Subscription: [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
ASF vs. Intel AMT part 2 - Technology differences
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (26 posts) on September 10, 2007 at 6:51 am
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Hi :) (Please refer to the "part 1" post of this series, in order to learn the evolution line of manageability solutions and the origins of Intel AMT). In the previous part, we talked about the (summarized) history of manageability. Now we will actually start comparing ASF and Intel AMT. It is somewhat hard to [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
ASF and Intel AMT - Spot the differences (part 1)
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (26 posts) on September 4, 2007 at 3:02 pm
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Hello again! After my suggestion of a "comparison between different manageability products" in my previous post, I was actually asked to do so - it seems to answer a widespread question. We'll start by focusing in the differences/similarities between ASF and Intel AMT, trying to explain features as well as technical differences. First, my very [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Testing in the Intel AMT development process
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (26 posts) on August 19, 2007 at 3:00 pm
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Hi! My name is Shmuel Gershon. I am a Software Tester at the team developing the core functionality of Intel AMT. I have been asked to join the blogging community and am honored to be part of our software network. Hopefully it will help our development process to be closer to the users and to developers [...]