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A senior architect at Intel, Ylian Saint-Hilaire part of a path finding group and is currently researching new ways of using Intel platform technologies. Ylian is known at for his work on the Manageability Commander Tool and the Developer Tools for UPnP Technologies. Recognized as an innovator and public speaker, he was awarded two Intel Achievement Awards for outstanding work enabling the digital home. On this own time, Ylian enjoys traveling to foreign countries. |
Meshcentral.com - Now with Pogoplug support!
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 24, 2012 at 9:38 pm
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A few weeks back I went on eBay and got myself two Pogoplug devices. Very nice little media and file sharing devices, you plug storage in the USB ports and you get access to the data anywhere on the internet. The devices are not expensive at all and very functional. One of the things that [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source, Power Efficiency
Tags: Agent, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, p2p, pogo, pogoplug, Ylian
Meshcentral.com - Improved MacOSX support
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 23, 2012 at 6:47 pm
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One of the problems I have been facing over the last few months was around the Mac OSX mesh agent. It just did not work right and so, over the last two weeks, I really made a big effort to improve it. Today, I released version 1.54 of the agent that seems to work much [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: desktop, mac, macosx, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, OSX, p2p, remote, Remote Desktop, Ylian
Meshcentral.com - Waking up computers
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 9, 2012 at 9:53 pm
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With this post, I want to cover how Meshcentral.com powers up sleeping computers. As many of you know, you can go on the web site, see all your computers and select one or many and remotely powered them off, reset them, etc. These operations are fairly simple, just tell the mesh agent to instruct the [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source, Power Efficiency
Tags: Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, p2p, Power Efficiency, power management, wake, Wake-on-lan, wol, Ylian
Meshcentral.com - Tiny computers
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 5, 2012 at 11:10 pm
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As many of you know, Meshcentral.com works best when you have a few computers on your local network. For example: To wake up a computer within your network, another computer needs to be on. Whatever computer is powered on will serve as the relay to send the wake-on-lan packet to the computer that is off. [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: linux, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, p2p, pi, plugpc, raspberry pi, wake, Ylian
Meshcentral.com - Golem.de German Article
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 4, 2012 at 11:25 pm
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Just two days after spotting an article about Meshcentral.com on The Verge, I noticed some more traffic on the server and started looking around to see why. Well, I found another article on a German online publication, Golem.de. I am often confused for a German but, sadly, I dont' speak the language and can't ready [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: mac os x, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, OSX, publication, Ylian
Meshcentral.com - The Verge
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 3, 2012 at 8:51 pm
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A few people within Intel today mailed me to said they had seen an article about Meshcentral.com on The Verge, an online publication. The full article is here, titled "Meshcentral: multi-platform remote access built on HTML5". It's short and accurate except they misspelled my name! One of the thing that most surprised me about the [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: article, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, publication, security, theverge, Ylian
Meshcentral.com - New Mobile Application
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 2, 2012 at 11:43 pm
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It's 2012 now and time to get back to work, but not before telling you a little about what I have been doing over the holiday break. Yes, I have been coding! About two months ago, I started working on a new version of the Meshcentral mobile application, this time, I wanted it to work [...]
Category: Android, Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: Android, application, html5, iOS, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, mobile, p2p, phonegap, Ylian
Meshcentral.com - Load balancing
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on December 22, 2011 at 9:24 am
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In the past few weeks I have been working hard to add load-balancing support to the Meshcentral server. Mind you, Meshcentral.com itself is currently still running on a single computer, with double power-supply, mirrored hard drives, but still, it's a single computer and so, easy to code against. As other groups within Intel get interested [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: ajax, HTTP, load balancing, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, p2p, Scaling, server, web, web sockets, websockets, Ylian
Meshcentral.com - Now with websockets!
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on December 15, 2011 at 10:11 am
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A few months back, I had added support for web sockets in Meshcentral.com, up until now it's only been used for noVNC, the all-Javascript VNC client and nothing else. Web sockets allow for full two-way communication between the server and the web browser for almost all browsers except Internet Explorer (this will be fixed in [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: ajax, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, noVNC, sockets, web sockets, Ylian
Meshcentral.com - New remote task manager
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on November 28, 2011 at 5:22 pm
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A few weeks ago I released the first support for Windows Management Interface (WMI), at the time, you should type in direct queries but everything was not very end-user friendly and not elegant at all. Today, I just released version 1.51 of the mesh agent which will take about 24 hours to update all the [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: manager, Mesh, MeshCentral, p2p, remote tasks, start, stop, Tasks, Ylian
Intel System Defense Utility - Tech10 Video!
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on November 23, 2011 at 2:00 pm
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As some of your may already know, I have been working on the side on maintaining and improving the Intel System Defense Utility (ISDU). It's an easy to use simple Intel AMT management console that is given for free on the Intel web site and comes with Intel Executive Series motherboards, that is, Intel motherboards [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility
Tags: Active Management, AMT, Intel System Defense Utility, Intel vPro, ISDU, Mesh, MeshCentral, netbook, vpro, Ylian
Meshcentral.com - Improved Timeline
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on November 21, 2011 at 8:20 am
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A while back I was reading a forum post with someone saying that HTML tables where overused and that the <DIV> tag should be used instead for most cases. At the time, I did not understand, after all many web editing tools make it easy to create tables and set the properties correctly to make [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, p2p, power control, Power Efficiency, power saving, Service, site, timeline, web, Ylian
Meshcentral.com - New Tech10 video!
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on November 15, 2011 at 10:42 am
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I am very excited to accounce that the latest episode of Tech 10 was just released and it features Meshcentral.com! Tech 10 is an Intel video series promoting Intel management technologies, they have lots of great guests and even a little rubber pig on the table... (not sure why, but it's funny!). In any case, [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: Community, interview, management, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, michele, mobile, online, p2p, pig, tech10, video, Ylian
Meshcentral.com - More Speed Improvements!
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on November 12, 2011 at 11:39 pm
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Over the last few days I have been having fun improving the performance of Meshcentral.com. I used object recycling techniques, database connection recycling to get quite a speed up. Well, I have been looking for more improvements and found a few more that I just released today. First, I started mastering the "CSS Sprite" technique. [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: css, firebug, html, management, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, p2p, pagespeed, speed, Ylian
Meshcentral.com - Performance using object pooling
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on November 10, 2011 at 9:57 pm
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This is going to be a really technical blog, so be warned, it's about coding and performance improvements. So, I am always looking to squeeze out more speed out of the Meshcentral.com server, this is lead by the fact that I need to scale to support a large number of users and managed computers. When [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source, Parallel Programming
Tags: Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, objects, p2p, performance, pooling, speed, SQL, Ylian
Meshcentral.com - New Audit Log
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on November 8, 2011 at 3:58 pm
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There are many aspects to security, it's not just about authenticationa and encryption. You sometime need to perform audits and go back in the past to see what happenned. Many good web services and tools offer this feature, it's sometimes called a log file or an audit log. With Meshcentral.com, I wanted for a while [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: audit, Audit Log, log, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, p2p, security, Ylian
OpenMDTK - Improved Host Based Provisioning
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on November 7, 2011 at 4:13 pm
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Just a few days ago I released the first version of the Open Manageability Toolkit (OpenMDTK) with Intel AMT Host Based Provisioning support. Well, I just made a bunch of fixes and released a new version with improved support. For one, the user interface responds better, but the most important new feature in this release [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: AMT, Commander, DTK, Host Based Provisioning, Intel AMT, Intel vPro, MDTK, OpenMDTK, Outpost, Provisioning, setup, vpro, Ylian
Meshcentral.com - Improved IE8 support
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on November 5, 2011 at 1:57 pm
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Yes, you read correctly, over the last few days, I fixed problems in the remote file system feature for Microsoft Internet Explorer 8. It just so happens that within Intel, it still seems to be the standard browser for most people and, thanks to recent bug reports, I had to go back to one of [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: browser, files, html, ie, IE8, Mesh, mesh central, MeshCentral, p2p, remote files, Ylian
OpenMDTK - Host Based Provisioning
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on November 3, 2011 at 6:56 am
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For the last week, I have been working on adding Intel AMT Host Based Provisioning (HBP) to the Open Manageability Developer Tool Kit (MDTK) and this afternoon, I posted version v0.077 with that feature added in. For people who don't know, Host Based Provisioning is a quick and easy way to setup Intel AMT 6.1 [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: AMT, Commander, DTK, HBP, Host Based Provisioning, Intel AMT, MDTK, OpenMDTK, Outpost, Ylian
Meshcentral.com - Improved Apple IPad support
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on October 27, 2011 at 12:16 am
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Ever since I got my own iPad2, by the way, It's name is "PAD!" but you have to say it just right. So anyway, I have been testing Meshcentral.com on many browsers including the iPad. Since there is no hardware keyboard, this causes a problem with some pages, notably the web based remote desktop and [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: ipad, keyboard, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, p2p, remote, remote display, tablets, Ylian
OpenMDTK - Update v0.76
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on October 25, 2011 at 7:44 pm
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From time to time I update the open source Management Developer Tools Kit (Open MDTK). It's a set of tools for trying out, developing and learning about Intel AMT. I just released an update today (v0.76) with a few fixed, one of the biggest changes to this version is the removal of the SwitchBox feature [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: AMT, Commander, DTK, Intel AMT, Intel vPro, Manageability, management, MDTK, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, OpenMDTK, vpro, Ylian
Meshcentral.com - Remote WMI support added
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on October 23, 2011 at 2:17 pm
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Well, here is an interesting new feature... I just added remote Windows Management Interface (WMI) support in Meshcentral.com. This allows a web developer to execute WMI queries from Javascript to a mesh Windows computer on any private network over the Internet. Right now, support is quite bare bones, but this capability can be used in [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: API, JavaScript, management, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, p2p, windows management, wmi, Ylian
Intel System Defense Utility v2.0.5
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on October 18, 2011 at 9:29 pm
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I just got word that Intel System Defense Utility (ISDU) version 2.0.5 got posted on the Intel web site. For people who don't know, ISDU is a simple Intel AMT management console that ships with Intel Executive Series Motherboards and also available freely online. The tool is intended to allow people to start using the [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, Defense, Executive, IDE-r, Intel AMT, Intel System Defense Utility, ISDU, management, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, system defense, Tools, Ylian
Meshcentral.com - All Javascript VNC support!
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on October 13, 2011 at 8:30 pm
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Tonight I am very happy to announce a very nice new feature to Meshcentral.com, a new all-Javascript VNC viewer! Actually, I just added support for noVNC, an excellent open source Javascript viewer into Meshcentral.com. In the past, we have VNC support on Meshcentral using Java Applets, in fact we have two of them supported now [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: desktop, management, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, noVNC, p2p, remote, Remote Desktop, remote display, Remoting, RFB, VNC, Ylian
Meshcentral.com - Boosting Server Performance
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on October 10, 2011 at 9:06 pm
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As more machines get connected to Meshcentral.com, it's important that the server be able to handle all of the traffic as efficiently as possible. Over the weekend, I have been looking into various optimizations I would make. Mind you, the server is built in C# and so, there is plenty of things that can be [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: binarywriter, C++, coding, Memory, memorystream, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, optimization, p2p, performance, recycle, source, Ylian
Meshcentral.com - New overview video
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on October 8, 2011 at 8:54 am
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I just posted a new introduction and overview video about meshcentral.com. It's less than 6 minutes long and covers most of the basics of what Meshcentral is about and what it can do. I actual taped the videos a few months back for a contest I wanted to enter into. At one point I say [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: Intel AMT, Intel vPro, management, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, Overview, p2p, remote, Remote Desktop, video, Ylian
Meshcentral.com - More bug fixes
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on October 4, 2011 at 11:06 pm
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After a few weeks of vacation and being sick, I started getting back into gear and working on getting the basics of Meshcentral.com working better and better. Today, I fixed a few bugs that caused the server message bus to stop working (a critical bug) and made a few improvements to the mesh search feature [...]
Category: Android, Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: file search, files, HTTP, java, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, p2p, proxy, Search, VNC
Meshcentral.com - Shirts!
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on September 29, 2011 at 7:52 pm
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Taking a page from pretty much any start-up, I figured no web service was going to ever be complete with shirts! Yes, shirts with a logo on it! One of my friends has a print screen thingy and so, I got a bunch of shirts and made a logo. I opted to put the QR [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, p2p, print, screen, shirts
Meshcentral.com - Mac OS X Remote Desktop
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on September 27, 2011 at 5:53 pm
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Today we released a new version of the Mesh Agent with a big new feature, web based remote desktop for Mac OS X. It's been a while since we updated the Mac OS X Mesh agent, prior to this release, the last mesh agent was pretty old. This new version 1.46 brings the Mac agent [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: desktop, login, mac, mac os x, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, os x, p2p, Remote Control, Remote Desktop, Remoting
Meshcentral.com - Disk cloning client PC's
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on September 25, 2011 at 8:45 pm
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A few weeks ago I started investigating a weird problem with the Meshcentral server: it was disconnecting lots of computers, always the same ones at a very rapid rate. I soon discovered that a set of about 10 or 20 computers where all trying to connect using the same identity. The computers had all been [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: Agent, backup, Certificate, clone, cloning, disk cloning, Mesh, mesh central, MeshCentral, p2p, peer-to-peer, update, Ylian
Meshcentral.com - MeeGo Remote Desktop
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on August 31, 2011 at 1:29 pm
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A few minutes ago I updated Meshcentral.com for improved Linux remote desktop support. One item just added was the addition of remote desktop on x86-64bit Linux platforms and better support on 32 bit Linux. So now, for Intel based Linux, the web based remote desktop should work just great. By the way, this includes MeeGo, [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: 64bit, desktop, kvm, linux, meego, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, p2p, peer-to-peer, Remote Desktop, web
Meshcentral.com - Mesh wide file search improved
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on August 30, 2011 at 8:27 am
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Last week I released the first early version of the mesh-wide file search feature. Well, last night I released a much improved version along with mesh agent 1.45. This feature allows a user to search for a file on all his computers at once. Once a file is found, you can click the link to [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: file search, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, p2p, peer-to-peer, Search, Ylian
Meshcentral.com - Mesh-wide File Search
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on August 25, 2011 at 5:04 pm
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A few minutes ago, I just released a very much experimental new file search feature on Meshcentral.com. Users will see a new search button on the top right for each mesh in the device page. When clicked, you can use the new form to search for a file in all the computers on that mesh. [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: file search, Mesh, mesh central, MeshCentral, p2p, peer-to-peer, Search, timer, Ylian
Meshcentral.com - Linux Web Remote Desktop
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on August 23, 2011 at 3:21 pm
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A few hours ago, we released the new mesh agent, version 1.43. This new version comes with the usual bug fixes but also, full web based remote desktop support on Linux. We tested this new feature on Ubuntu, Fedora and MeeGo. All three work great. You can now take control of a Linux machine behind [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: control, desktop, Fedora, linux, meego, Mesh, mesh central, MeshCentral, p2p, peer-to-peer, rdp, remote, Remote Desktop, Ubuntu, VNC
Meshcentral.com - Session API support
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on August 17, 2011 at 10:49 am
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A few days ago I read about a Mozilla Experiment called BrowserID and an associated Browser Session API which would help users log in and out of web sites. I found the information here: http://identity.mozilla.com/ and so, just for fun, I spent a few hours adding support to Meshcentral.com. Now, I did not add BrowseID [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: browser, browserid, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, peer-to-peer, sign-in, web
Meshcentral.com - New high speed server code
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on August 11, 2011 at 6:49 am
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As usual, we are keeping up work making Meshcentral.com better. Meshcentral is a web based device management and control web site. Yesterday, we updated the central server which has large parts of it written in C# to use asynchronous socket writes. Up until now, we would use asynchronous socket reads thru out the server, but [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: kvm, management, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, p2p, peer-to-peer, Remote Desktop, server, sockets, Ylian
Meshcentral.com - Performance Fix
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on July 20, 2011 at 5:19 am
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I keep working long day on improving Meshcentral.com, the web based computers monitoring and management site. In the last week or so, I made plenty more fixes. One of these fixes came yesterday with the release of mesh agent 1.39. I had noticed that the mesh agent was consuming too much CPU, in fact, it [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: mesh meshcentral p2p performance xp windows timings
Meshcentral.com - More features
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on July 5, 2011 at 9:28 pm
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It's a long holiday weekend in the US, but I can still find a little time to make improvements to Meshcentral. A few days back, I released a new version of the Meshcentral Connector tool what allows users to change the mesh password. Before this, is was not possible to change it after a mesh [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: ajax, Connector, CORS, HTTP, HTTPS, management, Mesh, mesh central, MeshCentral, p2p, peer-to-peer, web service
Meshcentral.com - Faster web remote desktop
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on June 28, 2011 at 8:36 am
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Work is continuing on Meshcentral. Last night we released a new version of the mesh agent with a much improved web based remote desktop feature. Using this feature, you can log into Meshcentral and take control of a remote computer using only a modern HTML5 browser (Firefox, IE9, Safari, Chrome). Just log-in, hit connect and [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Meshcentral.com - Powered down this weekend
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on June 24, 2011 at 4:17 pm
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Note that meshcentral.com will be offline this weekend starting today at 6pm. Our server room is being powered down for maintanence and so, the service will be back online sunday at midnight (or earlier). Update: Weekend has passed and the server worked perfectly thru out. No interruptions. Thanks, Ylian
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Back from HP Discover 2011
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on June 12, 2011 at 8:25 am
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A few months back I had the really great privilege to be invited as a speaker to HP Discover 2011 to chat about Intel vPro and how to connect it to social networks using peer-to-peer technologies. The conference was in Las Vegas at the venetian hotel and last week I went and had a wonderful [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: conference, elvis, HP, HP Discover, Intel, las vegas, McCartney, Mesh, MeshCentral, p2p, Paul McCartney, paul_McCartney, peer-to-peer, speaker, vegas, vpro
MeshCentral.com - Added Twitter Support
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on May 22, 2011 at 10:03 am
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Many months ago we released Twitter support for Meshcentral. At the time, we could send events to Twitter when a computer changed power state, etc. At the time, we also added support for receiving commands from Twitter and having the executed. Meshcentral.com has it's own twitter channel (Meshcentral) and if you post a command on [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, OAuth, p2p, peer-to-peer, sleep, twitter, wake
Meshcentral.com - New iGoogle Gadget
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on May 18, 2011 at 8:46 am
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Yesterday I worked on getting Meshcentral functionality within an iGoogle gadget, and this morning released the feature for everyone to use. Basically, it allows users to add a mini-version of Meshcentral on their Google home page. The mini version allows you to monitor power state, turn devices on and off and perform remote file management. [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Meshcentral.com - VNC to an Android device
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on May 11, 2011 at 7:24 am
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I have been working on Android a little more this week and just for kicks, I downloaded "VNCdroid" from the marketplace. It's a VNC server for rooted Android devices. Well, I got it installed, configured it to port 5900, went on Meshcentral.com and clicked on the VNC link. The result is the screen below, full [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: cyanogen, HTC hero, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, p2p, Phone, smart phone, VNC, VNCdroid
Mehscentral.com - Added Android/x86 support
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on May 10, 2011 at 7:36 am
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Meshcentral.com, our web based management site already supports a lot of different devices. Yesterday we added a new Android/x86 port of the mesh agent to the long list of supported devices. One of my friends at Intel was working on getting Android working on a standard Intel tablet and since that was working pretty well, [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
MeshCentral.com - New command line tool
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on April 25, 2011 at 12:16 pm
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Minutes ago, I updated Meshcentral.com with a new Microsoft Windows command tool that allows administrators to perform management commands on remote meshed computers, commands like sleep, wake, hibernate and push and pull files from and to remote computers. You can also list meshes and mesh nodes from your account. This tool is now available in [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, p2p, peer-to-peer, Remote Management, sleep, wake
Meshcentral.com - Works on Apple iPad (Video)
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on April 21, 2011 at 6:48 am
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In the last few days, I have been testing the Meshcentral.com web site for use with the Apple iPad and finally got everything working. The site looks good on the tablet in general, but a few features needed special attention. First, the remote command line terminal needed a way to control the keyboard. You want [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: apple ipad, ipad, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, p2p, remote commands, Remote Desktop, tablets
MeshCentral.com : Ubuntu x64 support
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on April 19, 2011 at 12:14 pm
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A few days back, one of my friends tried to install the Mesh agent on a Ubuntu x64 machine and it would not run... sure, trying to run the MeshAgent compiled for Ubuntu x86-32 bit on a 64 bit machine will not work. Well, I just released the Linux x86-64 Mesh Agent. It's on the [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: 64bit, linux, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, p2p, peer-to-peer, Ubuntu, x64
MeshCentral.com - Web KVM now works in IE9
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on April 13, 2011 at 8:57 pm
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A few weeks ago Microsoft released Internet Explorer 9. This was significant for us because up until now, no Internet Explorer had HTML5 support and so, could not used the web-based remote desktop (KVM) feature on MeshCentral. Today, I released an updated version of the server web site with IE9 support. I did have to [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: ie9, Internet Explorer, kvm, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, p2p, peer-to-peer, Remote Desktop
MeshCentral.com: Improved web KVM feature
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on April 11, 2011 at 8:43 am
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This weekend I worked quite a bit on improving the web based remote desktop (KVM) feature of MeshCentral.com. One of the fun features of MeshCentral is being able to take control of a remote computer using only an HTML5 browser (still working on IE9). Also, no need to configuring ports maps in your router, just [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
MeshCentral.com: Discovered Microsoft Message Queuing
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on April 7, 2011 at 8:17 am
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When building any major web service, as a developer you are likely to need some message passing "software bus" on the server side. This is the case for MeshCentral.com, I needed a way to pass messages between various server components. For example: When a user clicks "wake up" on the web site, the message needs [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, messages, msmq, p2p, peer-to-peer, servers, service broker, SQL
Intel System Defense Utility v2.0.1
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on March 30, 2011 at 5:36 am
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During my vacation last week, Intel released the latest version of the Intel System Defense Utility v2.0.1 (ISDU), this is the latest update to this Intel AMT introduction tool that ships with Intel Executive Series Motherboards. I want to go over a few of the changes, more importantly, this is the first version of ISDU [...]
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Ylian's personal update - Back from Vacation!
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on March 26, 2011 at 3:48 am
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Hi everyone! It's almost 4am as I am starting to write this blog. I just woke up from being jet lagged. I want to make this blog about what I have been up. European Vacation First, I just came back from a two week European vacation (Photos here). I had a direct flight from Portland, [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: Europe, ISDU, Mesh, MeshCentral, Tall, update, upnp, Vacation
Developer Tools for UPnP Tech - Now with Android/Java support
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on March 7, 2011 at 10:50 pm
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Today we released a new version of the Developer Tools for UPnP Technologies v0.0.50 with a couple of added goodies. In summary, we now have Google Android support, DeviceProtection sample and MacOS X support. The tools are open source and available to the community under BSD 2.0 license, making it easy to add to software [...]
Category: Android, Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: deviceprotection, mac os, OSX, plug and plag, upnp
MeshCentral.com - New online Java VNC viewer!
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on February 22, 2011 at 4:10 pm
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Last week, we added a major new feature to MeshCentral.com, the online VNC java viewer. When you log into the site now and click on a device, you will see a link at the bottom of the page with "VNC". When clicked, it will connect a VNC session to the computer on the peer-to-peer network. [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: desktop, java, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, Remote Desktop, VNC
Intel System Defense Utility v1.9.3
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on February 18, 2011 at 10:52 am
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Last night I noticed that the new version of Intel System Defense Utility (ISDU) has been posted on the Intel site. ISDU is a lightweight tool that comes with Intel Executive Series motherboard and allows users to get familiar with the features available with Intel AMT. For my part, I am very honored to be [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, Intel AMT, Intel System, ISDU, system defense
Developer Tools for UPnP - Update
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on February 4, 2011 at 4:27 pm
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While my main job is MeshCentral, on the side I am still taking care of updating the Developer Tools for UPnP Technologies. One of the areas that gets the most updates is Device Builder, the tool that generates custom UPnP stacks. It just happens that Device Builder's C stack uses the same code base as [...]
Category: Graphics & Media, Open Source
Tags: Device Builder, Microstack, upnp, UPnP AV
MeshCentral.com - New Mesh Agent API
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on February 2, 2011 at 12:02 pm
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For a long time, it's been our goal to build and release a developer API on top of mesh. The idea is that applications could leverage the discovery, communication and security of the mesh work for their own use. Today, we released a new version of the open source Mesh Manageability Tools (v0.0.91) with a [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: Agent, API, Mesh, Mesh Agent, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, p2p
MeshCentral.com - Mac OS X support
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 28, 2011 at 8:12 pm
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It's been years since I last used a Mac. I remember my dad got me one of the early Mac's. A single unit with a black and white screen. That was a long time ago and Mac now use Intel processors, BSD based operating system, etc. In any case, I have been getting requests for [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: BSD, mac, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, OSX, p2p
MeshCentral.com - New web access feature
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 24, 2011 at 12:18 pm
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For a long time, many have been tackling the “outside-in” problem. We have computers within our home and small business that have lots of valuable data, and have smart phones and laptops that can’t get to the data easily. There are a few problems including: How to get passed the NAT router on the local [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, p2p, peer-to-peer, web access
MeshCentral.com - Running on a PlugPC
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 18, 2011 at 5:59 pm
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Today I got my first PlugPC and successfully compiled the mesh agent to run on it. The PlugPC looks like wall plug, but it runs a full computer with Ubuntu. After a few minutes to configure it correctly (This link was very helpful) I installed the compiler (gcc) on the plug and got the agent [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, plugpc
MeshCentral.com - Mesh agent on Android
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 10, 2011 at 11:02 am
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Over the weekend, I downloaded the Android kernel on my Ubuntu Linux computer and attempted to port the peer-to-peer mesh agent over to Android. Since the mesh agent makes use of OpenSSL, etc. I did not use the Android NDK, instead I got the entire Kernel and compiled directly to the Android environment. It took [...]
Category: Android, Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: management, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com
MeshCentral.com - New mobile site
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 6, 2011 at 6:34 pm
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A few minutes ago, we just updated the MeshCentral.com mobile web site. This is a separate set of pages that is typically used by smart phones such as the iPhone and Android phones. When going to MeshCentral.com, smart phones are automatically redirected to the mobile site. In the past, the mobile site looked pretty good [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, mobile
MeshCentral.com - Intranet version
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 4, 2011 at 9:14 am
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This may seem odd, but this blog is about a new feature of MeshCentral.com that no-one outside of Intel can access yet... sort off. In the last few weeks I have been working on making MeshCentral.com Intranet friendly and yesterday, launched an Intranet version of Mesh central on a separate server within Intel. My first [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: authentication, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com
MeshCentral.com - Remote download
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on December 21, 2010 at 5:38 pm
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Just a quick note to say that remote download is now deployed on MeshCentral.com. Just go in the web file browser and all files will now have download links. Clicking on a link will cause the browser to launch the download. Of course, it's not as easy as it looks. In reality, MeshCentral only serves [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: download, File management, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com
MeshCentral.com - More powerful file browser
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on December 20, 2010 at 3:28 pm
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About two weeks back, I started putting online a new remote file browser feature in MeshCentral. This is a new web page you can use to remotely get access to the file system of all your mesh'ed computers (given you have proper authorization). The first version of the web file browser could only view the [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: kvm, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, p2p, remote file access, Remote Management
MeshCentral.com - IT Conversation PodCast
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on December 16, 2010 at 1:11 pm
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About two weeks ago I had the great privilage to be interviewed by Phil Windley of Technometria. He interviewed me about my work on Peer-to-peer networking, remote management and MeshCentral.com. The interview is now a podcast available at: http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4731.html The interview is a general conversation covering many topics. First, my own work on MeshCentral, but [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: IT Conversation, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, podcast
MeshCentral.com - New introduction video
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on December 15, 2010 at 8:33 am
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Last night I worked on a new introduction to MeshCentral video and released it on YouTube. It took a few hours to make using a narration and a PowerPoint build. The idea is to have a simple video showing how to get started with setting up MeshCentral. To make the video, I started by writing [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, p2p, Remote Management, video
MeshCentral.com - Remote file browsing
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on December 14, 2010 at 11:53 am
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Yesterday, we launched a new update of MeshCentral.com, MeshCentral Connector and the Mesh Agent that now includes support for remote file browsing. This new feature allows administrators to log into MeshCentral and remotely browse files in any "meshed" remote system directly from the web page. To do this, we built a full web based file [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: file browsing, files, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, outside-in, peer-to-peer, remote file access
MeshCentral.com - Down for maintenance (Now back)
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on December 10, 2010 at 9:44 pm
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This weekend our building is getting electrical maintenance done and so, my very nice server is not going to get any power. MeshCentral.com is currently down and it should be back up Monday morning. I may work on getting a maintenance page setup on a different server, we will see what I can do. In [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: file browsing, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, outage, p2p
MeshCentral.com - Javascript remote desktop bugfix
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on December 5, 2010 at 8:56 pm
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Tonight, I have been trying to fix a bug in one of the key features of MeshCentral, the Javascript remote desktop feature. MeshCentral can get access to computers even inside private networks which makes it useful, but it's even better because you can start a remote desktop session directly from the web site using any [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: desktop, JavaScript, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, Remote Desktop, Remoting
MeshCentral.com - My ideal work day
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on December 1, 2010 at 9:02 pm
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I just had one of my ideal work days at Intel, that is, a day without any meetings and just fun coding, all day long. I find them to be my most productive days. In general, I think meetings are over rated... A few consecutive hours of uninterrupted work can be worth gold. Today, I [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, p2p, Remote Management, Terminal, Vt100, Web Services
MeshCentral.com - Agent compiled on Xen
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on November 29, 2010 at 4:15 pm
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Over the long weekend I kept fixing bugs on MeshCentral.com, thanks for all who are providing feedback. In this blog, I want to talk about the new port of the mesh agent . The mesh agent has been compiled on Linux for quite a while, but a few days back I compiled it for the [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: linux, Mesh, MeshCentral.com, p2p, Xen
MeshCentral.com - New timeline view
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on November 23, 2010 at 1:21 pm
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We have been working full time on getting all the major bugs out of MeshCentral, our remote monitoring and control web site. With any big projects, there are lots of problem all over the place, but getting the basics working is the top priority right now. By the way, thank you to everyone submitting feedback, [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: management, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, monitoring, p2p, Power State
MeshCentral.com - Starting to work pretty well
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on November 21, 2010 at 9:48 pm
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Last week we launched the new user interface for MeshCentral.com and started getting more people trying it out and providing feedback. Over the last few days, we knocked out a bunch of show stopper bugs and I am happy to report that some are having success using the web site to remotely manage their computers. [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: management, Mesh, MeshCentrtal, peer-to-peer, remote, Remote Access
MeshCentral.com - New user interface
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on November 18, 2010 at 3:56 pm
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We are happy to report that MeshCentral.com now has a new user interface. We just put it up last night and it's a big improvement over the previous one. As you may know, MeshCentral.com is a trial computer management web site. You install a special agent on your computers and you can remotely monitor power, [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, p2p
MeshCentral now on the Android App Store!
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on November 11, 2010 at 10:25 pm
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A few months ago, my co-worker and cube-mate (we happen to share a compressed cube) Matt Wood wrote an Android application for Mesh Central. It was a way for him to learn the basics of Android programming and do something useful while at it. Well, tonight I took the next step and published this application [...]
Category: Android, Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: management, Mesh, MeshCentral, MeshCentral.com, p2p, Power Efficiency, Remoting
MeshCentral: Basic remote desktop from a web page
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on November 1, 2010 at 8:06 pm
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Well, in the last few weeks, I went to Hawaii on vacation, but mostly, we have been coding like crazy. Since I work for a path finding and innovation group, we have been trying new things and this blog is to announce the latest crazy thing to come out from our labs: Web based remote [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: kvm, Mesh, MeshCentral, p2p, Remote Desktop
Managing from a Smartphone!
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on October 15, 2010 at 10:33 am
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It's been a while since I blogged, but I have kept busy. A few months ago, we launched an experimental web site for managing computers and we I invited members of our management community to try it out. The site is at meshcentral.homeip.net and allows you to manage all your computers from a single place. [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: Mesh, p2p, peer-to-peer, Phone, Power Efficiency, smart phone, Wake-on-lan, wol
IDF 2010 - Day 2 - Video Blogs - Intel vPro & AppUP
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on September 15, 2010 at 1:12 pm
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I got more videos of IDF 2010 in San Francisco, CA. The first video is a short overview of the Intel vPro Community Center with demos from Intel people and lots of Intel partners. The second one if the Intel AppUp showcase and Intel AppUp community. Ylian
Category: Intel® AppUp Developer Program, Manageability & Security
Tags: AppUp, idf, Intel, Intel AppUp, Intel vPro, vpro
IDF 2010 - Day 1 - Video Blogs
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on September 13, 2010 at 4:54 pm
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Here are two more videos blogs taken on day 1 of the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. I recorded during the showcase built-up of the Intel vPro area in the morning, trying to figure out what is going on. Ylian
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, idf, Intel, vpro
Video Blog - Academic Community at IDF
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on September 12, 2010 at 6:40 pm
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I just caught up with Jennifer Levine from the Intel Academic Community at IDF 2010 in San Francisco. I asked her to do a video blog on what the community is up to at IDF. Apparently a lot! Big thanks to Jennifer for being a good sport and giving us a preview of what it [...]
Category: Academic
Tags: academic community, idf
IDF 2010 - Day 0 - Video Blog
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on September 12, 2010 at 6:34 pm
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I landed this morning in San Francisco and this is the day before the start of IDF 2010. I just registered and figured I would upload my first video blog of the event. Tomorrow is a big day, the two labs I am doing both 2 hours each will total 4 hours. I should be [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: AMT, idf
IDF Coming up!
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on September 10, 2010 at 8:37 pm
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The Intel Developer Forum is coming up! It starts this Monday in San Fransisco and I am highly privileged again to be a speaker. My job will start Monday afternoon with two consecutive identical labs, PROL001 and PROL002. We are going to talk about Intel AMT, the new features, the old features and everything in [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: idf, Intel AMT
Getting Computer Power State on iGoogle
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on September 9, 2010 at 4:03 pm
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In the last weeks we worked on a new feature to get power management information on iGoogle. This is all part of the peer-to-peer mesh management software we are building. For the last few months, users would install a peer-to-peer agent on their computers and start tracking their computers on meshcentral.homeip.net. We then enabled our [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: gadget, iGoogle, Power Efficiency, Power State
P2P Hopping Protocol
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on September 5, 2010 at 11:58 am
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In the last week, I started working on the last big missing infrastructure piece of the mesh networking peer-to-peer network. A way to send messages between may two nodes in the peer-to-peer network. Each node communicates with at most 20 neighboring nodes, this is useful to form a mesh, but it only gets interesting is [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: hop, MeshCentral, messaging, p2p, security
Adding web page tooltips that are iPad compatible
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on August 27, 2010 at 12:27 pm
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In recent weeks, I have been working on MeshCentral, a central web site for managing all our computers. I got lots of features added in and more to come but I wanted to make the web site more user friendly by adding pop-up tool tips as certain places. I also wanted it to not be [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: ipad, JQuery, tablet, tooltip
My Lab's Computer Power State Now Public
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on August 26, 2010 at 2:25 pm
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Today I added a new feature in MeshCentral that allows an administrator to make some of the state of their computers public for anyone to see. Obviously, this is not enabled by default, but when enabled MeshCentral gives you a link to a publicly accessible web page you can share with anyone. Now your friends [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: Mesh, OpenID, twitter
Presenting at IDF, September 13-15th
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on August 25, 2010 at 9:40 pm
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It's official. I will be a speaker at IDF in San Francisco September 13th to the 15th. It's coming up very soon. Today we had another review of the presentation material. Most speakers have finely tuned decks of slides, just like I do. But when starting the review I say that I will not be [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: AMT, cloud, idf, p2p, platform
Started work on OpenID / OpenSocial support
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on August 25, 2010 at 7:48 am
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We are hard at work building new features of the MeshCentral web site. In the last week, we started work on two more features that are high on the list. First, OpenID. It's insane to think that web users will create one more account in MeshCentral to manage a few computers when they already have [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: MeshCentral, OpenID, opensocial, p2p, twitter
Discovering JQuery for web based authoring
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on August 15, 2010 at 8:00 pm
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Ok, so maybe I am the last web developer on earth to discover JQuery. I have to say, I am impressed with this little library. A few months ago, James, a rotation engineer at Intel worked for my group at Intel and introduced me to JQuery for doing AJAX calls. I used it a lot [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: asp.net, html, JQuery, Mesh, social, twitter
New Mesh Agent with Windows Prompt Fix
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on August 9, 2010 at 9:06 pm
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Tonight I just released a new version of the Mesh Agent in the wild. Version v0.0.91 has a few more bug fixes but the most noticeable one is working access to the Windows Command Prompt from within the MeshCentral web site. This makes use of the Javascript VT100 terminal that I have been working on [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: command, idf, Mesh, p2p, prompt, Terminal, twitter, Vt100
Updated Device Builder for UPnP Technologies
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on August 6, 2010 at 2:03 pm
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I just updated the Developer Tools for UPnP Technologies. It's now at version v0.0.38, as always it's open source at http://opentools.homeip.net. For people that already have a previous version of the tools installed, the update should be coming using the auto-update system. This time around I fixed up the support for embedded devices in the [...]
Category: Game Development, Open Source
Tags: upnp, upnp ap
Writing Secure Self-Updating Code
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on August 6, 2010 at 12:03 am
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Part of the Mesh Networking project I am working on depends on being able to perform fast, scalable mass updates of all of the nodes on the network. This is quite a task. Even if the mesh agent is small, if it's installed on many machines it can represent a lot of data. To make [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: code signing, Mesh, MeshCentral, p2p, pkcs12, security
MeshCentral now hooked up to Twitter
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on August 3, 2010 at 8:46 pm
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For the last few weeks, my co-worker and I have been working on this crazy idea of hooking up your home or small office computers to Twitter. The idea is simple: If all goes as planned the web site I am building will eventually allow your computer to complain on Twitter if something goes wrong. [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: Mesh, MeshCentral, p2p, twitter
Manage your computers using an Apple iPad.
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on July 28, 2010 at 11:58 am
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I have been working on a VT100 terminal in Javascript that works along with MeshCentral to allow someone to manage your computers from anywhere. Well, last night I got the terminal pretty much done and worked on a variant for the Apple iPad. It's the same page, but I used Javascript to detect the iPad [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: ipad, Mesh, p2p, Terminal, Vt100
Mesh Connector now on AppUp
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on July 25, 2010 at 12:30 pm
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I am very happy to report that for the 4th time now, I got an application approved on AppUp. This time around, I wanted to build an application that would make it easy for someone to connect computers to the experimental web site I have been building: meshcentral.homeip.net. Of course, this tool is available for [...]
Category: Intel® AppUp Developer Program, Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: Mesh, MeshCentral, p2p
Connecting a web service to Twitter
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on July 22, 2010 at 8:14 pm
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For almost a year now, I have been working on an experimental web site for connecting computers to a web service so that users can enjoy a wide array of platform services (power management, remote control, distributed computing, etc.). This web site is now at meshcentral.homeip.net. It's really an experimental vehicle for trying out new [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: Mesh, MeshCentral, OAuth, social, twitter
Update on getting VT100 in a web page
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on July 22, 2010 at 8:15 am
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Last night, I worked really late but I made really good progress on getting a VT100 terminal to run inside a web page. The goal is to allow an administrator to access a Linux or Windows command prompt on a remote computer from anywhere in the world and do so, right from the web site. [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: ajax, Mesh, remote, serial, SOL, Vt100, web
Getting HTML5 Canvas working on IE
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on July 20, 2010 at 8:58 am
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In the last few days, I have been working on a VT100 terminal entirely built within a web page. I use the HTML5 Canvas feature to draw the terminal surface and AJAX to a dedicated C# built server for the data flow. Well, I had this small annoying problem that the Canvas feature is not [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: canvas, html5, ie, JavaScript, Mesh
Long lived AJAX requests
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on July 19, 2010 at 10:40 pm
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I worked all day on building my JavaScript VT100 terminal. Over the weekend I used an HTML5 canvas to paint the characters and so far so good. The real question was how to connect the new terminal to the service so that content (display codes and keyboard input) would flow interactively to and from the [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: ajax, Mesh, polling, Vt100, web
Creating a VT100 terminal in JavaScript
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on July 19, 2010 at 10:37 am
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I have been building a web site for remotely monitoring and managing computers from a single web site. Well, I am working on adding more features to the site and one thing I would like to do it get a command prompt on any computer from the web page. This would be fun because you [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: JQuery, Terminal, TV100
Getting ride of all the warnings
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on July 6, 2010 at 7:10 am
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I am generally a C# developer, but these days, I own, maintain and write a lot of C code. My two main projects with C are the Mesh Agent and the UPnP Microstack, both share a lot of code and in the case of the UPnP stack, it's quite widely used. Recently someone mentioned that [...]
Category: Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: upnp, warnings
Stocking up the Intel® AppUp store
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on June 21, 2010 at 9:20 am
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I get to write a lot of cool applications that do many different things in my role in research and path finding here at Intel. Imagine my excitement when AppUp was announced and I saw the chance to use a new distribution channel for my software. I first checked out the applications I had already [...]
Category: Intel® AppUp Developer Program
Tags: AppUp, Intel® AppUp Developer Program, Intel® Atom™, netbook
Fixed: Using loopback adapter with UPnP
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on June 20, 2010 at 5:56 pm
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Being that I maintain the Developer Tools for UPnP Technologies, I am on the hunt to more bug fixes. Lately, I got no shortage for bug reports thanks for the exception logging page. This page collects most of the exceptions caused in the C# tools, sadly, I don't get much information on the C stack [...]
Category: Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: loopback, upnp
Taking over IMRSDK.dll sockets
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on June 8, 2010 at 2:22 pm
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Just a quick blog to talk about IMRSDK.dll and how to use it from other languages. So far, all of the methods exported by this DLL have been exported with the "__CDECL" calling convention. This is not the default for .NET and probably many other languages. As a result, if you call into IMRSDK.dll using [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: active management technology, AMT, IMRSDK, Intel AMT, ISN Manageability community, Manageability, Mesh
My formula for success
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on May 28, 2010 at 11:09 pm
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As many of you already know, I work in the innovation part of Intel. There are many such places at Intel and I don't work at the Intel Labs per-say, but at an innovation and path finding group at Intel. Throughout my career, I have had to make decisions on what to work on and [...]
Category: Academic, Software Tools
Tags: formula, ideas, value
Taking over SOL/IDE-R sockets
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on May 27, 2010 at 7:31 am
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In a previous blog, I noted that I am working on being able to route Intel AMT out-of-band traffic over a peer-to-peer network. In order to do this, an Intel AMT management console must be able to change where it's connecting SOAP/WSMAN/SOL/IDE-R. Instead of connecting to a real Intel AMT port (16992 to 16995) you [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, IDE-r, redirection, soap, SOL, WSMAN
New IPv6 UPnP Fixes
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on May 24, 2010 at 9:42 pm
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I just released a new bug fixed version of the Developer Tools for UPnP Technologies. Someone pointed out that on IPv6 you have to use a different multicast address for link local and normal IPv6 interfaces. In other words, if you have an IPv6 address that starts with FE80, you have to use a different [...]
Category: Mobility, Open Source
Tags: IPv6, upnp
Routing Traffic on Mesh Networking
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on May 20, 2010 at 7:50 am
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I have been blogging a lot about the Developer Tools for UPnP Technologies lately, but most of my time has still been spent working on the Mesh manageability project. In the last few days I got a lot of new features implemented, notably that I can route TCP connections from anywhere to any node in [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: AMT, Manageability, Mesh, p2p, routing
Added tools on Intel AppUp store
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on May 17, 2010 at 9:46 pm
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In the last few day, I worked on uploading a few of the applications and tools from opentools.homeip.net onto the Intel AppUp store. They are a subset of the applications available on the opentools web site, but in order to get them uploaded, I had to do some small changes to the tools and installers. [...]
Category: Intel® AppUp Developer Program, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: AppUp, Intel® Atom™, netbook
Tools for UPnP running on Linux/MONO
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on May 10, 2010 at 10:36 pm
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After many requests, I again attempted to get the Developer Tools for UPnP Technologies working on Linux. Some have noted that it already almost worked, the user interface would show up but no device would get discovered. Well, tonight I found a way to get around the problem and get SSDP working correctly on my [...]
Category: Graphics & Media, Open Source
Tags: mono, Ubuntu, upnp, Ylian
More UPnP Updates
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on May 8, 2010 at 6:27 am
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People who have downloaded the Developer Tools for UPnP Technologies in the last month have noticed many new updates are being released. The self-updating system build into the tools allows anyone to keep up with the changes as they come. In recent days I have been getting help from the community and fixed may more [...]
Category: Graphics & Media, Open Source
Tags: opentools, testing, update, upnp
WHS Add-in problems with VS2010
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on April 30, 2010 at 11:32 pm
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So I recently switched all my computers to Visual Studio 2010 and I am in the process of updating all of the projects to the new format and making sure everything works. Well, Visual Studio 2010 has a bug that makes it difficult to compile large projects to target anything other than "Any CPU". If [...]
Category: Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: visual studio, VS2010, WHS, Windows Home Server
Update Developer Tools for UPnP Technologies
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on April 27, 2010 at 11:56 pm
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I just updated the Developer Tools for UPnP Technologies in an attempt to bring the tools up to date. First, the source code was updated to Visual Studio 2010. Second, when running Device Spy, the UI was sluggish and the tools would not be consistent in detecting all devices on the network. These issues have [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: Tools, upnp
Updated Resource Translator Tool
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on April 24, 2010 at 4:54 pm
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Just a quick note to say that I just updated the Manageability Resource Translator Tool so that it now supports translating generic XML files. My co-worker Matt has a XML file with all the English test strings for his Android application and wanted to see if support for other languages was possible. With the translator [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: translation, XML Software
Report from IDF Beijing 2010
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on April 16, 2010 at 3:42 am
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I am in Beijing China and we wrapped up IDF 2010 at the Olympic Park, the same place where the 2008 Olympic games where held. First off, there seems to be a problem will the blogging web site, I have not been able to log in and so, for the last week, no blogs. By [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Playing around with an Android phone
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on April 7, 2010 at 11:16 am
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In the spirit of learning new things, Matt Wood, one of my co-workers wanted to try his hands at writing an Android Phone application that connects with the mesh work I have been doing. I had been building a mobile version of the mesh web site that works on most new smart phones including the [...]
Category: Android, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: Mesh, security, Vt100
Heading over to IDF Beijing next week.
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on April 2, 2010 at 2:58 pm
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Some of you may know, I have been a regular speaker at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) for the last few years. This time again, I am privileged to be a speaker at IDF Beijing April 13th to 14th. This is the first time I am going to be in mainland China and I am [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, Beijing, idf, lab, session, speaker
Mesh - Speeding up ASP.net & MS SQL
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on March 31, 2010 at 9:06 pm
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I have been working on a new web site for monitoring and managing computers. Each management agent links up with other agents in the local network and the web site gets a constant streaming flow of computer state information. So, this flow of information about where each computer is on the network, what it's power [...]
Category: Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: database, Mesh, nocount, optimize, speed, SQL
Adding PocketPC support to my mobile site
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on March 30, 2010 at 1:59 pm
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A few days ago I built my first smart phone compatible web site. It's a micro version of the mesh site I am building with the iPhone meta tags for proper scaling, etc. I have since tried it on a Nexus One Android phone and it looks and works just like the iPhone. At the [...]
Category: Mobility, Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: Mesh, Phone, pocketie, smart phone, windows mobile
Recovering from a Windows Home Server crash
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on March 26, 2010 at 3:23 pm
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Regulars of my blog know that I have been working on an add-in for Windows Home Server for managing computers. It's all tied in with the web site and the smart phone support from my previous blog. In any case, I am the happy owner of a Lenovo IdeaCentre D400 (picture below) and have been [...]
Category: Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: crash, recovery, WHS
My first mobile web site
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on March 26, 2010 at 8:37 am
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As part of my work on Mesh networking, I have a bunch of computers peered together in a network, monitoring and managing each other. I also have some of the computers connected to a web site, allowing me to get monitoring information to the site and send commands back down to the computers. I don't [...]
Category: Mobility, Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: iPod, Mesh, mobile, Power Efficiency, web
Mesh networking and "viral" updating
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on March 23, 2010 at 7:57 am
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Last night I released another version of the Mesh networking tools. In the last few weeks, most of my efforts have focused around being able to remotely update the mesh agents running on each computer. Say you are a small office manager and installed the mesh agent on each machine in your office so you [...]
Category: Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: Mesh, p2p, update
Updated Dev Tools for UPnP Technologies
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on March 11, 2010 at 11:43 pm
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More updates to the Developer Tools for UPnP Technologies. This time around, I fixed a problem that I put in when adding IPv6 support. In the Microstack (C code) seems like I was trying to connect to an IPv4 remote address using a IPv6 local address, no great surprise that it failed. I got that [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: signature, update, upnp
I just discovered Valgrind, it's about time.
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on March 9, 2010 at 12:37 pm
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Most of my coding career at Intel was been spend using C#, but with the mesh project, we needed to build the background peer-to-peer agent as small and as portable as possible and coding it in C made sense. Well, anything you code in raw C code, there are plenty of opportunities for problems. I [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: debug, leaks, segfault, valgrind
Mesh development update
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on March 6, 2010 at 8:08 am
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Yesterday we released a new version of the mesh tools. Nothing earth shattering yet, but the main new feature I have been working on is connecting a mesh of computers to an external web site. Basically, you use the mesh to coordinate computers in such a way as to keep one of them connected to [...]
Category: Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: Mesh, Service, update, upnp
My first look at Intel AMT 6.0
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on March 2, 2010 at 10:36 pm
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With all my focus on peer-to-peer meshing lately, I have not spend much time looking at Intel AMT. Just last Friday I got my first working Intel AMT 6.0 computer in my cube. Most people rush to try the new KVM feature, but I opted not to follow the crowd and look at some other [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: AMT, compatibility, Mesh
Mesh and inter-agent communication
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on February 21, 2010 at 2:42 pm
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I am been working a lot on the mesh lately, some are wondering what is this all about, what will I be using this technology for? Well, it will also be clear in the future. For now, I am still debugging the mesh agents and tools. I run the mesh agent in all my computers [...]
Category: Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: Mesh, Scaling, Ylian
Updated Windows Home Server Add-in
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on February 17, 2010 at 3:01 pm
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Last night I updated the Windows Home Server Add-in based on the mesh networking project. The new version fixes many really bad bugs. Completely new C# mesh walking engine that is faster and more efficient. Improved handling of small meshes with only one or two computers. Fixed the Intel AMT System Defense feature for Intel [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: Mesh, WHS
AV Media Renderer & more
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on February 11, 2010 at 9:38 pm
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Tonight I uploaded a new version of the Developer Tools for UPnP Technologies. The new package adds an updated version of the AV Media Renderer software. It's a C# tools that wraps the Media Player control into a UPnP AV Renderer device. Its made to work with other AV media control points or the ones [...]
Category: Graphics & Media, Open Source
Tags: av, Media, upnp
Intel Parallel Universe introduction
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on February 10, 2010 at 6:55 pm
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As an Intel employee, I often get to see demonstrations from other projects at Intel. Yesterday I got to see a demonstration from Chuck Piper on Intel Parallel Universe, this is an online service for testing how an application scales on many CPU cores. The web site is at paralleluniverse.intel.com. The demonstration is on YouTube. [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: cores, CPU, parallel programming, universe
Update of the Developer Tools for UPnP
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on February 10, 2010 at 10:10 am
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Hi Everyone. i just wanted to post an update on the Developer Tools for UPnP Technologies. First, it's not my primary job, most of my job is focused on the Mesh project that is also posted on the opentools web site. It's not my main job, but I still do spend quite a bit of [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: upnp
Mesh Information Distribution & Security
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on February 4, 2010 at 10:28 pm
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I just posted the second of a series of tutorial videos on my mesh networking project. In this video I talk about information distribution and security. Basically, if you have many nodes on a network, how can you get information about all of the other nodes by talking to only a few? Signed node information [...]
Category: Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: Mesh, p2p, security
Fun with IP multicast
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 27, 2010 at 7:28 pm
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I just spent a large part of this morning debugging a known bug I had in the Developer Tools for UPnP Technologies. The C# tools often times did not discover a new device when it was added to the network. Basically, a new device would multicast it's presence and the network adapter on my developer [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: multicast, upnp
Manageability Add-in for Windows Home Server
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 26, 2010 at 10:25 am
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A few weeks ago I started playing around with Windows Home Server. Since you can code add-in in C# and I have lots of open source C# code around, I figured I could just re-use a bunch of it for a new add-in. Well, I just released my first attempt at it. This add-in is [...]
Category: Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: Add-in, Home Server, Mesh, WHS
New release of the Developer Tool for UPnP Technologies
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 25, 2010 at 5:08 pm
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I just released a new version of the Developer Tools for UPnP Technologies on opentools.homeip.net. This time around I got help from a few people in the community that reported bugs. The two main areas of improvements where in the user interface of Device Builder and the Linux code generated stack. I don't think the [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: upnp
Converting an Atom Store GUID into a .NET GUID
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 22, 2010 at 1:44 am
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I just posted about making the Atom Store SDK work in .NET. One thing I missed is that the Atom Store provides application GUID's in the format:
"0x00000000,0x00000000,0x00000000,0x00000000"
But normal .NET GUID's are in a different format:
"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
Well, you have to be careful because you can't convert by just changing the text around. Look at that the conversion actually looks like:
App Store GUID: "0x01020304,0x05060708,0x090A0B0C,0x0D0E0F00"
.NET GUID: {04030201-0605-0807-090a-0b0c0d0e0f00}
Category: Intel® AppUp Developer Program
Tags: Intel® AppUp Developer Program, Intel® Atom™
Mesh Networking Project
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 15, 2010 at 4:36 pm
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I was in a meeting a few days ago with a fellow research team at Intel trying to explain how the mesh project worked, well, I got a deluge of questions on everything from balancing, synchronizing to security. In fact, plenty of security related questions. Well, this inspired me to record short videos on how [...]
Category: Open Source, Software Tools
Building Peer-to-Peer Security
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 12, 2010 at 10:16 am
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So I am building a peer-to-peer mesh network and trying to make it secure... nothing could be simpler, just a walk in the park. Well, wish that was true. It just so happens it's a little tricky. First off, each node in a mesh network does not truly trust any other nodes, so you trade [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: Mesh, p2p, security
New release of mesh networking project
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 9, 2010 at 10:20 am
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For the last year I have been working on this peer-to-peer mesh software. Believe me, it offers many new opportunities for managing and doing plenty of new scalable usages, but it comes with an important trade-off: the software is insanely complicated. Imagine if you will writing a small piece of software in raw C code [...]
Category: Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: Mesh, p2p, peer-to-peer
Manageability Resource Translator Tool
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 7, 2010 at 7:02 pm
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I just saw our own Paul Otellini give the keynote at CES, pretty cool stuff. Well, I am happy to announce a much smaller release of a different type. Since I speak french and English and many of my co-workers at Intel speak other languages, I have for a long time taken a close look [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: internalization, resx, Tools, translate
Developer Tools for UPnP Tech - Tutorial Videos
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 3, 2010 at 4:46 pm
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I just happen to be at the office on a Sunday, but it's a good thing, the office is quiet and it's a perfect time to record new tutorial videos the Developer Tools for UPnP Technologies. I just recorded two of them, both very basic and they show the power of using these tools for [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: tutorial, upnp, video
Developer Tools for UPnP Tech - updated
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 3, 2010 at 9:46 am
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Ok, I know it's the holidays and your supposed to take it easy, but I did manage to spend a little time updating the Developer Tools for UPnP Technologies a little. The last update made added exception logging to the main tools so that any exceptions thrown would generate a log file and instructions indicating [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: update, upnp
Year in review
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on December 29, 2009 at 11:46 am
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It’s the end of the year already and time for this blogger’s year in review. This has been a good year for me, no matter how you measure it. Probably the most significant public facing accomplishments included the release of the book “Platform Management Demystified” which seems to be doing very well. When attending IDF [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: review, upnp, WHS
Problems with my management engine
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on December 27, 2009 at 11:25 am
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I am on vacation with both my Netbook and my bigger HP 6910p laptop what has Intel AMT 2.5. I have been playing games with my bigger HP laptop and yesterday morning I turned the computer on and it was really slow booting up. The management engine boot screen takes over a minute to go [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, problem, slow
Riding AMTRAK with my ATOM
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on December 22, 2009 at 10:44 am
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I just completed a two day ride on AMTRAK from Portland, OR to St-Paul, MI. 36 hours total travel and right on time and it was fun. We eat in the diner car and had plenty of room and our own plugs for laptops. Perfect time to try my new Acer Aspire D250 on the [...]
Category: Uncategorized
Tags: amtrak, netbook, train
App Store GUID
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on December 20, 2009 at 8:50 am
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In my earlier blog about the App Store GUID, I made a mistake in the conversion code. I corrected the code but wanted to mention that because the four integers given on the App Store web site are small-endian (we are Intel x86 after all), I forgot to flip the bytes around. There are many ways to do this, you can filp them around in C# with this method:
public static Guid ParseStoreGuid(string guidstr)
{
guidstr = guidstr.Replace("0x", "").Replace(" ", "").Replace(",", "").Replace("\r", "").Replace("\n", "");
byte[] buf = new byte[guidstr.Length / 2];
Category: Intel® AppUp Developer Program
Tags: Intel® AppUp Developer Program, Intel® Atom™
Just got my HP MediaSmart Server LX195
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on December 17, 2009 at 4:37 pm
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(I just noticed this is my 100th post on my blog! - I am heading out to celebrate!) This morning I received the HP Media Smart LX195 server. It's your basic Microsoft Windows Home Server with ATOM processor and 1Gig of RAM. I finaly can try installing an add-in on the real device. So far, the [...]
Category: Software Tools
Tags: Add-in, WHS, Windows Home Server
Playing around with Windows Home Server
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on December 15, 2009 at 12:33 am
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I have been playing around with Microsoft Windows Home Server (WHS). Very nice devices that backup your home computers and do all sorts of interesting things. Of course, the fact they you can add more functionality to them is very important. I have long toyed around with the idea of writing an Intel AMT add-in [...]
Category: Software Tools
Tags: Home Server, WHS, WHSLogo
Building .NET applications for the app store
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on December 9, 2009 at 1:00 pm
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Building .NET applications for the App Store is not currently supported. If you are like me, building user interfaces with .NET is quick and easy and so, it would be nice to submit .NET applications. I did manage to submit an application that was built in .NET and also supports the Atom SDK, still remains to be seen if it will be approved but I want to post about how I managed to use the Atom SDK in C#. We also want to provide some level of security, so this topic will be addressed.
Category: Intel® AppUp Developer Program
Tags: Intel® AppUp Developer Program, Intel® Atom™
Updated: Developer Tools for UPnP Technologies
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on December 9, 2009 at 10:39 am
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Just a quick note to mention that I updated the Developer Tools for UPnP Technologies on the web site. Fixed a 100% CPU use bug along with a few bugs in the C Microstack when running on computers that have no network cards. I still have a report of an exception when Device Builder first loads, [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: Tools, update, upnp
Local network discovery done correctly
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on December 8, 2009 at 8:59 am
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I am currently working on two projects, the Mesh and the Developer Tools for UPnP Technologies. In both cases, they rely on local network discovery. basically you want to multicast that you are looking for something and get unicast responses back from nodes that match the query. Well, may sound simple but there is a [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: discovery, IPv6, Mesh, multicast, Open Source, ssdp, Tools, upnp, Ylian
UPnP and IPv6
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on December 4, 2009 at 9:05 am
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After working over 12 hour days on average over the last few days, last night I uploaded the latest version of the Developer Tools for UPnP Technologies on opentools.homeip.net. This new version has lots of little fixes but the major change in the code generator (Device Builder) now generated C stacks that have IPv6 support. [...]
Category: Graphics & Media, Open Source
Tags: IPv6, Tools, upnp
Developer Tools for UPnP Technologies
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on December 2, 2009 at 11:49 pm
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I just went and checked out our Intel forums on the UPnP tools. I had not looked at them in years and there where a bunch of common questions I wanted to answer in a blog. First, the "Intel Tools for UPnP Technologies" have been replaced with the "Developer Tools for UPnP Technologies". Licensing One [...]
Category: Graphics & Media, Open Source
Tags: developer, Tools, upnp
Intel video on Active Platform Management Demystified
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on September 23, 2009 at 4:12 pm
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Yesterday I went to the blogging area of IDF and our Intel media professionals edited a really nice clip to promote the book "Active Platform Management Demystified". Check it out on YouTube! Ylian
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: Intel AMT book Ylian
Promoting the Intel AMT book at IDF
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on September 22, 2009 at 12:43 pm
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I made it to the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) and I brought with me a big pile of books "Active Platform Management Demystified" with me. In fact, I have over a ton of books! My Intel blogger friends are also at the show and making videos, here is my shot at a little video. Watch [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, book, idf
New Open Source Mesh Project
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on September 18, 2009 at 4:26 pm
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For the last few months I have been working on new prototype software for making computer management easier. Basicaly, it's a peer-to-peer mesh agent where computers monitor each other without the need for a central management server. The prototype code is now avaialble online for download at: http://mesh.homeip.net It's very basic right now. The [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: Mesh, peer-to-peer
Intel Developper Forum next week!
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on September 17, 2009 at 7:10 am
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Hi everyone. I just want to write a quick note to mention that I will be attending the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) next week. This year again, I have the real privilege to be a speaker. First, I will be co-speaker at the PROS004 session, and will have my very own lab PROL001. In both [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: "Active Platform Management Demystified", book, idf
Big news! - Active Platform Management Demystified
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on July 15, 2009 at 6:47 pm
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Today is the big day for my two co-authors and myself. We received the first early shipment of our book "Active Platform Management Demystified", a technical book about Intel(R) AMT. Writing a book is a lot of effort and I now know first hand just how much. In this video recorded earlier today, we shot [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, Intel AMT, Ylian
Getting IPv6 at home & writing code
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on July 7, 2009 at 1:21 pm
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IPv6 has always been a foreign topic to me, their weird addresses and more complex tunneling systems made it an uncharted world I never set foot in. On the other hand, I do know that all quality software these days should support IPv6. In this blog, I want to talk about my last 2 week’s [...]
Category: Software Tools
Tags: coding, IPv6, Ylian
My adventures with PKCS#7 and OpenSSL
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on April 30, 2009 at 7:40 am
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(warning, really technical) I have been working on this idea of peer-to-peer mesh networking for a while now and run into problems with OpenSSL. Just a little warning, this blog is for people who are a little crazy about cryptography and already know a bunch about OpenSSL & PKI. With this warning, let’s go ahead… [...]
Category: Academic
Tags: memory leak, Mesh, OpenSSL, PKI, security, Ylian
2006 Jetta TDI & WinCE navigation system
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on February 22, 2009 at 9:35 pm
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This is a little unrelated to my previous blogs on manageability, but yesterday I got a new used car, a 2006 WV Jetta TDI. It’s actually a Diesel car which for the US is unusual. It gets great gas millage, some even compare it to the gas mileage of hybrid cars, but since diesel gas [...]
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Intel AMT and Mesh Networking
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on February 17, 2009 at 9:24 am
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In the last part of the latest edition of the Intel Technology Journal (ITJ), I write about a new usage for Intel AMT and peer-to-peer computing. See Extreme Programming with Intel® vPro™ Technology: Pushing the Limits with Innovative Software. The general idea is that you can use Intel AMT to represent a computer while it’s [...]
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Tags: Ylian Mesh Networking Intel AMT peer-to-peer
No writer's block with Intel AMT
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on February 12, 2009 at 7:33 am
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Well, my co-authors and myself are in the final stages of writing the book on Intel AMT. It’s called Active Platform Management Demystified and it’s been a lot of work. Lots of author’s meetings. For me, many hours alone at the Roadhouse, a local restaurant, writing chapters. Throughout the last few months, I was lucky [...]
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Tags: Ylian Active Platform Management Demystified
Reading the power state using Intel AMT
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on February 4, 2009 at 8:43 am
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Ok, I have one more trick for all you Intel AMT developers trying to build high security software. One good use of Intel AMT is for power state monitoring, one could build an application that polls many computers for their power state and plots the results on a graph. You can see just how "green" [...]
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Tags: Ylian power state WebUI green
Intel AMT and Wake-on-LAN
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on February 4, 2009 at 12:11 am
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Hi everyone. I have not been posting much lately, but have been keeping busy writing a book and white papers on Intel AMT. In the last section of the Intel Technology Journal article on extreme usages, I talk about how Intel AMT could be used to build a peer-to-peer mesh network, and that is what [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: Ylian WOL AMT Magic Packet Security
Intel AMT demonstration
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on July 29, 2008 at 11:32 am
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Hi everyone. A few days ago, I did a demonstration of Intel AMT at an Intel event. This is a standard demonstration of Intel AMT with reboot, remote BIOS edit and the DTK's unique TCP-over-SOL to perform a VNC session on a computer that has the operating system network stack disabled. This video is also [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Uncategorized
Fun facts about the Intel AMT serial port
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on July 24, 2008 at 11:23 pm
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I often get questions about the Intel AMT serial port. Ever since the DTK started to make heavy use of it, serial-over-LAN has gotten a lot of attention. First, how do you change the COM port number of the Intel AMT serial port? The COM number (COM3: for example) is assigned by the operating system, [...]
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Tags: Intel AMT DTK serial port
Back from vacation & DTK status
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on July 16, 2008 at 7:20 am
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Hi everyone. I am very happy to be back from my Intel sabbatical. One of the benefits of working at Intel is a paid 8 week vacation every 7 years. In my case, I was eligible for my sabbatical over 2 years ago, but we did not want to stop working! As part of my [...]
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Intel AMT Reflector and local manageability
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on May 14, 2008 at 2:01 am
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As many of you may know, there are two ways of contacting Intel AMT: The remote network interface and the local LMS/HECI interface. These interfaces are very different; the remote interface that is available thru the wired and sometimes wireless Ethernet and is rich with features while the local Intel AMT interface is very limited. [...]
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Tags: Intel AMT DTK Ylian Reflector Local Remote
My trip to see the Intel AMT development team
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on May 6, 2008 at 9:54 pm
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Last week Intel sent me to Israel for an Intel only gathering of engineers, architects and specialists that work on Intel AMT. I was honored to attend and also to be a speaker taking about the progress made with the DTK. First of all, I want to thank all of the people in Intel Israel [...]
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Tags: Intel AMT DTK Ylian Israel Jordan Petra Dead Sea
My home computer continued...
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on April 22, 2008 at 11:20 am
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Ok, so I worked a lot to get my dream entertainment computer up and running. I am not a gamer, but I also don't like to watch live television and need a home server for backups, keepings my files and doing a bunch of other things. Now that I built it, I going to brag [...]
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Tags: Intel AMT DTK home computer
Intel AMT 3.0 on my home computer
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on April 20, 2008 at 3:41 pm
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I just posted a new YouTube video on my own Intel AMT 3.0 computer that runs under my television. It runs Microsoft Media Center, has 4 cores, 4 tuners, 4 hard drives, 3 Gigs of RAM, 2 DVD's... Certainly the most powerful computer I have ever owned. Most importantly, it has Intel AMT 3.0 using [...]
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Intel AMT DTK back online, v0.52x released.
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on April 18, 2008 at 5:20 pm
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I am glad you inform everyone that the Intel AMT DTK is back online and once again, my apologies for the interruption. Version v0.52x was released, with just a few fixes over the previously posted v0.51x. It's mostly the same as before, not many new features, but if you have experiences problems in the past, [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: Intel AMT Developer tool kit DTK Commander Outpost WSMA
Intel AMT DTK removal - Intel internal issues.
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on April 9, 2008 at 12:02 pm
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As many of you have noticed, the Intel AMT DTK is now marked as "temporarily unavailable" for download. I just wanted to say that this is due to some Intel internal issues and it should be back for download very soon, at that time, I will that that opportunity to release an updated version of [...]
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Tags: Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit DTK
Intel AMT DTK v0.51 released & Audio blog.
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on March 24, 2008 at 8:49 am
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Hi all. I wanted to announce the release of the Intel AMT DTK v0.51 on the public web site. As usual, lots of improvements have been made since the last version thanks for much testing and feedback from users. There are a few things that are particularly interesting about this new release of the Intel [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: Intel AMT DTK Commander Outpost Flash USB WSMAN Reflect
Top 5 things Intel AMT does and was never designed to do
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on February 25, 2008 at 10:27 pm
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Years before I started working on Intel AMT, designers where creating a list of usages that would be enabled by Intel AMT. The list included, I presume, usages around 3PDS, remote reboot to BIOS, disk redirection, etc. Many of the Intel AMT usages that are promoted on the Intel web site. When I started work [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: Intel AMT DTK Commander Outpost
Top 5 things I would change about Intel AMT
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on February 24, 2008 at 11:01 pm
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The Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit (DTK) is now over a year old and by many accounts, the most popular software package for using Intel AMT that exists today. As I work on improvements and new features I also get to interact with my users, developers, IT departments, testers, etc. I also come across many [...]
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Tags: Intel AMT DTK Commander Outpost
Intel AMT Commander's Serial-over-LAN scripting
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on February 4, 2008 at 10:24 pm
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Serial-over-LAN is quite useful for taking control of a computer, making changes to the BIOS and when Intel AMT Outpost or Guardpost is running, getting a management command prompt even when the OS network driver is disabled. What if you have to repeat the BIOS change on 100’s of computers? Say you want to change [...]
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Tags: Intel AMT DTK Commander SOL serial-over-LAN scripting
More tutorial videos: 3PDS & Translation
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 30, 2008 at 11:41 pm
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Yesterday night I was in the zone and worked practically all night, actually I went home at 2am. People who know how wonderful being "in the zone" is will understand. In any case, I recorded two new tutorial videos and added them to the big tutorial video pack that is available on the Intel AMT [...]
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Tags: Intel AMT DTK tutorial videos 3PDS
Intel AMT DTK v0.48x released + Audio blog
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 28, 2008 at 12:53 pm
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It's time for another release of the Intel AMT DTK v0.48x. The "X" stands for external since for the last two months I have been working on upcoming Intel platforms features and so, not releasing public updates as often as I use to. In this release there are so many changes, I can't really go [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT DTK Commander Outpost Guardport Release
Intel AMT DTK Tutorial Video Pack
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 16, 2008 at 10:21 pm
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I am happy to announce that we just put online a new Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit (DTK) tutorial video pack. It's just a large 146 megabytes ZIP file with 11 tutorial videos recorded using a desktop capture application and two live Intel AMT demonstrations using Intel AMT Commander. This is great news for people [...]
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Tags: Intel AMT Commander Tutorial Videos DTK Outpost Directo
Happy new year! What up for the DTK in 2008
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 3, 2008 at 9:22 am
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First off, happy new year to everyone. It's this time of year to reflect on 2007 and it certainly was a great year for the Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit (DTK) and all of Intel vPro Technology and Intel AMT. For one, the DTK has new been public on the Intel web site for about [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: Intel AMT DTK developer tool kit wsman monitor
Intel AMT DTK v0.45 Released + Audio Blog
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on December 13, 2007 at 11:41 pm
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It’s time for a new release of the Intel AMT Developer Tool kit. Version v0.45 was released Saturday morning with a bunch more bug fixes and improvements. People ask me what the formal road map for the DTK is and I answer that there is none, its customer driven and I constantly improve many features. [...]
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Tags: DTK Commander Outpost security Outpost release
Secure coding and the Intel AMT DTK
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on December 6, 2007 at 7:07 am
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I am been taking a two day class on C/C++ secure coding, a required class for every coder within my group at Intel. First, I am so thankful I mostly don’t code in C/C++ because as I learned in the class, it’s quite challenging to write secure code that is not susceptible to stack overflow [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Software Tools
Tags: DTK Commander Outpost security Guardport Outpost review
Intel AMT Heuristic Filters and Rate Throttling
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on November 20, 2007 at 10:54 pm
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Many months ago when Intel AMT 3.0 computers were still in pre-production, a test group at Intel came over and dropped one of these prototypes in my lab. "Have a good time" the guy said. He smiles and walked away. At the time, my lab was only composed of AMT 1.0 and AMT 2.0 computers [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: Intel AMT DTK Heuristic Throttling NetTraffic Commander
Intel AMT DTK v0.44 Released
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on November 14, 2007 at 7:24 pm
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The time has come to release a new version of the Intel AMT DTK v0.44. It was released publicly yesterday along with full source code. In this new version we again added many more improvements and bug fixes, but these are a few of the major highlights: Korean Translation. One more complete surprise from a [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: Intel AMT DTK Developer Tool Kit 3PDS Kerberos WMI
A history of converting console text to VT100
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on November 11, 2007 at 2:18 pm
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One of the tasks every BIOS vendors has to do when building a BIOS that sits on top of a Intel AMT enabled computer is to convert the text-mode display into a series of VT100 codes that are sent into the Intel AMT serial-over-LAN port to a terminal console. As I noticed when building IAmtTerm.exe, [...]
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Tags: Intel amt sol serial vt100
Using 3PDS, a little more tricky than expected
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on November 10, 2007 at 1:28 am
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Probably one of the least used features of Intel AMT is the 3rd Party Data Storage (3PDS) feature. Intel AMT 1.0 computers typically have 96k of spare flash and Intel AMT 2.0 and beyond have 192k of spare flash. This is spare flash space from the same circuit component that stores the computer’s BIOS, settings [...]
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Intel AMT DTK v0.43 Released + Audio Blog
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on October 30, 2007 at 4:21 pm
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It's time for one more release of the Intel AMT DTK v0.43. Here are the major changes in this release: New Installer. Probably the most visible change is the new installer. The Intel AMT DTK is no longer a self-extract and I am looking for feedback on the installer and it's ease of use. I [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT DTK Commander Outpost Guardport WMI SOL Japan
Intel AMT DTK v0.41 Released + Audio Blog
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on October 10, 2007 at 4:26 pm
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Hi everyone. I just released the Intel AMT DTK v0.41 with a few new things ahead of my departure to Taiwan for the Intel Developer Forum. In this new version, I have 3 major new things to report: Intel AMT Defender. I added a new tool called Intel AMT Defender. It's a community supported version [...]
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Intel AMT DTK v0.40 Released + Audio Blog
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on October 5, 2007 at 8:54 pm
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Just released version v0.40 of the Intel AMT DTK, with the addition of 802.1x and Endpoint Access Control (EAC) as I wrote about in my previous blog. This is probably not going to be a big impact on many people since this feature is exclusive to large enterprises, but it's very useful for testing Intel [...]
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Working on adding 802.1x and EAC support to Intel AMT Commander
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on October 4, 2007 at 11:58 pm
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In my never ending quest to try to have full coverage of all Intel AMT features in the Intel AMT DTK, I got motivated by two colleges to add 802.1x and Endpoint Access Control (EAC) support to Intel AMT Commander. I am not an expert on these two technologies, but they basically allow the network [...]
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Adding WS-MAN support to Intel AMT Commander
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on September 27, 2007 at 10:45 pm
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With release v0.39 of the Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit (DTK), I started work on adding WS-MAN to Intel AMT Commander. My plan is to have the IAmtRemoteStack.dll be dual mode and support both the older and newer interface at the same time. Ideally, if Intel AMT Commander can use WS-MAN to communicate with Intel [...]
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Intel AMT DTK v0.39 + Audio Blog
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on September 26, 2007 at 3:46 pm
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We just released the Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit (DTK) v0.39 on the public web site with source code a few minutes ago. In this release we have many more bug fixes but also, initial work on WS-MAN support in Intel AMT Commander. In relation for WS-MAN, the most interesting new feature is a WS-MAN [...]
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Second Intel AMT Commander demo at IDF
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on September 22, 2007 at 9:57 am
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I just posted on YouTube a second demonstration video on Intel AMT Commander made during this week's Intel Developer Forum (IDF). This one talks about Intel System Defense, Agent Presence and Intel AMT Outpost. It's longer than the first one and I think covers topics that are less often demonstrated during trade shows. There days, [...]
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Intel AMT DTK at the Intel Developer Forum
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on September 20, 2007 at 9:24 am
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I am in San Francisco for the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) and want to start out by saying, I am now on YouTube. I taped a short video about Intel AMT Commander and using it for remote control, BIOS changes and IDE redirect. I also posted a few pictures of my trip. The first day [...]
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Intel AMT DTK v0.38 released + Audio blog
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on September 8, 2007 at 12:30 pm
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In the short history of the Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit, this is probably the single release with the most changes and improvements in it. One look at the change log and you notice that there are lots of improvements in many areas of the DTK. In this blog, I want to touch on a [...]
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Live presentation of the Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit at IDF
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on September 1, 2007 at 9:26 am
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For people wanting to learn more about Intel Technologies, the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) is a great place to meet engineers and have an in-depth look at many of the cool new technologies Intel is working on. Intel AMT is one of these and I will be presenting two identical hands-on labs that are two [...]
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar, the DTK's software development process
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on August 27, 2007 at 10:52 pm
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Instead of blogging about the Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit (DTK), I wanted to chat about another question that is often talked about within Intel, the software development process used by the DTK. It's not often that any software at Intel is developed like the DTK, updated every few weeks externally and almost daily within [...]
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Intel AMT DTK v0.37 released & Audio blog.
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on August 20, 2007 at 7:53 am
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We just released the Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit (DTK) v0.37. Here are the highlights of the changes in v0.37: Improved Japanese internalization and now, Intel AMT Monitor is also in Japanese. Thanks to the following 3 Intel employees in IJKK, the Intel AMT DTK and Intel vPro products are much more successful in Japan. [...]
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Intel AMT Switchbox with Intel AMT TLS support.
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on August 3, 2007 at 9:10 pm
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In the latest release of the Intel AMT DTK v0.36, Sandeep added TLS (also known as HTTPS) support on the Intel AMT side of Switchbox. Basically this means that Intel AMT Switchbox can communicate with the console with or without TLS, and with Intel AMT computers with or without TLS. In general, I recommend always [...]
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Intel AMT DTK v0.36, Reverse-Watchdog & Audio Blog.
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on August 2, 2007 at 4:33 pm
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We just released the Intel AMT DTK v0.36 a few minutes ago. In this blog, I want to focus on a new trick I am using in Intel AMT Commander and Intel AMT Outpost. For a long time, many people have asked me to create an easy way to send a clean "sleep", "shutdown", "reset", [...]
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Intel AMT DTK overview slides
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on July 28, 2007 at 10:30 am
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Today I wanted to post a set of slides that presents an overview of the Intel AMT DTK. These slides are based on presentations I have made about the Intel AMT DTK in the last few weeks and months. As shown in this slide deck, the last 7 or 8 months have brought the DTK [...]
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Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit v0.35 & Audio Blog.
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on July 27, 2007 at 11:19 pm
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The Intel AMT DTK v0.35 was just posted. In general it contains lots of bug fixes but also a new "-debug" command argument for all of the DTK tools to create a full trace log of all web services operations. This is going to be really useful for fixing the more complicated bugs being reported. [...]
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Solving IDE-R Internet performance using Switchbox.
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on July 24, 2007 at 8:23 am
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IDE redirect is one of the most power features of Intel AMT, but as I blogged about before, it's also not well suited for use over the Internet. Commands that usually flow over short and very high speed SATA cable are now sent over the Internet with much lower bandwidth and much higher latency. IDE-R [...]
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Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit v0.34 with source code now available
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on July 23, 2007 at 11:12 am
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We just posted the Intel AMT DTK v0.34 a few minutes ago. This is probably the most significant release of the Intel AMT DTK since it was first introduced back in January because with this release also comes with the entire source code to all of the DTK tools. People outside of Intel now have [...]
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The difference between IDE-R and PXE
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on July 21, 2007 at 10:59 am
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Of all of the Intel AMT features, probably the most powerful one is IDE redirect (IDE-R). It allows a management console to remotely mount a CDROM and Floppy disk drive on an Intel AMT computer and cause a remote boot on the remote drives. In worst cases, an administrative console can resort to IDE-R to [...]
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How to really use Intel AMT 3PDS.
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on July 19, 2007 at 10:06 pm
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Many have started using 3PDS (3rd Party Data Storage) and having questions about blocks not being visible and other such things. I want to make this blog entry all about 3PDS and how to really make use of it. First off, in my experience Intel AMT 1.0 had 96k of NVRAM and Intel AMT 2.0 [...]
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A quick look at certificate management and Intel AMT
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on July 5, 2007 at 7:09 pm
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So you used Intel AMT in "Small Business Mode" for a while now, and want to join the big leagues and switch over to "Enterprise Mode". The only and very important benefit of Enterprise mode is that you get to use TLS security. All communications between the administrator and Intel AMT will be encrypted and [...]
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Making use of Intel AMT Commander in single computer mode.
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on June 22, 2007 at 9:44 am
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In the latest versions of the Intel AMT DTK, I have added two new modes of operations to Intel AMT Commander: Single Computer Mode and Simplified Mode. I want to explain both of these modes in depth since they are really interesting for people that want to make use of Intel AMT Commander from within [...]
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Personal Adventure - Clear air turbulence on my flight.
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on June 14, 2007 at 12:19 pm
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Normally I talk about the Intel AMT DTK and all the work I am doing on it, but I wanted to blog about something completely different since I was traveling to Israel today to meet with the engineering team that works on Intel AMT and had an adventure during the trip, here is the mail [...]
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Solving the Intel AMT NAT problem using Intel AMT Switchbox
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on June 12, 2007 at 8:15 am
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A common problem with Intel AMT is that it was never designed to be used from the Internet. Performance of IDE-R and the web server built into Intel AMT are both problems, but probably the most pressing problem is the fact that the 16992 to 16995 ports are hard coded in the Intel AMT SDK [...]
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Intel AMT Switchbox - The Intel AMT Magic Box
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on June 7, 2007 at 8:55 pm
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New with the release of the Intel AMT DTK v0.32 is a new tool called "Intel AMT Switchbox". It's unlike any other tool in the DTK. Intel AMT Switchbox is a combination embedded management point and management proxy for managing multiple computer on a network from the Internet. It's really a do it all software [...]
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Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit v0.32c now available
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on June 4, 2007 at 1:38 pm
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The newest version of the Intel AMT DTK is now available with many more new features and improvements. Intel AMT Switchbox. This newest tool is an attempt at solving the Intel AMT NAT problem and allowing someone on the Internet to manage multiple computers within a network. This tool, written entirely in embedded C can [...]
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Monitoring lots of computers using Intel AMT
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on May 29, 2007 at 6:27 am
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A few months back, it occurred to me that you could take remote monitoring of computers to a completely new level using Intel AMT. Probably the most interesting yet overlooked side-effects of Intel AMT is that, at any time, monitoring software connect to all the computers in the office and have authorities proof of a [...]
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Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit v0.30 now available
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on May 17, 2007 at 6:32 pm
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We just got one more update of the Intel AMT DTK posted online. I keep making lots of changes to it, but I am getting lots of visibility and so, it's causing me to go to meetings and code less. Next week, I may have to shutdown e-mail and focus on coding some more. I [...]
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Doing Intel AMT Network Discovery
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on May 11, 2007 at 10:49 pm
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I sometimes get asked about how to scan the network to discover Intel AMT computers. Intel AMT listens on TCP ports 16992 for HTTP connections and 16993 for TLS connections. The favorite way to detect Intel AMT is to try a connection to port 16992 and see if it works. If the connection is immediately [...]
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Intel AMT reaching my local computer store.
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on May 7, 2007 at 3:30 pm
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A funny thing happened to me visiting my local computer store and this is a completely true story. As many of you know, there is a picture in Intel AMT Commander and Intel AMT Director of two red computers in my office space. I know it's weird to have my own cube featured in my [...]
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Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit v0.29 now available
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on May 2, 2007 at 3:57 pm
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I keep coding a lot, spending way too much time at Intel. Still, the Intel AMT DTK is making lots of progress and v0.29 was released on the web site a few days back. Again, lots of feature improvements but probably the most interesting new feature of this version is USB Key support in Intel [...]
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Making Intel AMT Managibility Easy
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on May 1, 2007 at 6:18 am
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As the Intel AMT DTK was featured on Tom's Hardware, I started participating in the discussion forum associated with the article. One reader posted that he worked in IT and had the chance to have several servers with technology similar to Intel AMT. Because it was complicated to use, he never really bothered with it. [...]
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Intel AMT DTK featured on Tom's Hardware
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on April 26, 2007 at 11:12 am
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This morning was an unexpected geek's dream come true. The Intel AMT DTK was featured in an article on Tom's hardware called Command and Conquer. It shows screen shots of Intel AMT Commander and Intel AMT Director being used to setup and control an Intel AMT computer. They don't talk much about the more magical [...]
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Intel AMT and user accounts and permissions
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on April 22, 2007 at 7:37 am
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One of the cool and often overlooked features of Intel AMT is the creation of user accounts on Intel AMT itself. This can be interesting when an administrator wants someone else to have access to data from Intel AMT, but restrict what that user can do. In general, if you are going to run an [...]
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Using the new Intel Net Traffic tool, part of the Intel AMT DTK
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on April 19, 2007 at 9:50 pm
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Starting with the Intel AMT DTK v0.27, a new Intel Net Traffic tool was added to the package to help demonstrate an interesting and often overlooked feature of Intel AMT -- rate limiting network filters. The new tool looks a little like the already available Intel Net Status tool. Intel Net Traffic can be used [...]
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Using Intel AMT Director to setup Intel AMT in Enterprise mode
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on April 18, 2007 at 8:57 pm
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With the latest version of the Intel AMT DTK v0.27d now released, users will have noticed that Intel AMT Director has gotten much better. It's still early code, but what we call "One Touch" setup is now getting pretty reliable. I wanted to take a moment to explain how to setup an Intel AMT computer [...]
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Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit v0.27d now available
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on April 12, 2007 at 1:17 pm
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A few minutes ago Ajay posted the latest version of the Intel AMT DTK v0.27d and there are lots of changes since the older v0.24 that was posted before. First of all, I think the overall quality of the DTK is getting better and better. I keep getting feedback from people asking me to change [...]
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Using Intel AMT serial-over-LAN to the fullest
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on April 7, 2007 at 6:59 am
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My white paper on using Intel AMT serial-over-LAN to it's fullest has now been posted. If you're going to be building applications and make use of Intel AMT, it's certainly a required read. When I first started on Intel AMT last November, I was really trying to find a way to make an amazing demonstration [...]
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Microsoft boot manager and Intel AMT Serial-over-LAN
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on March 31, 2007 at 12:53 am
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Last week, someone on our Intel Management Forums posted a great question. He wanted to install a recovery partition on an Intel AMT computer and, when performing a normal reboot using Intel AMT Serial-over-LAN, remotely select which partition to boot. To do this, he used the Microsoft boot manager - with one problem, it did [...]
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The Intel AMT DTK in Simplified Chinese
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on March 29, 2007 at 7:42 am
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I have been looking at Asian characters all week and I can't understand any of it! During the last two weeks, a few fellow co-workers in the Intel China site have internationalized the Intel AMT DTK to Simplified Chinese. I only worked a very little before on internationalizing .NET applications and this was certainly the [...]
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Intel AMT Serial-over-LAN terminal emulations
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on March 21, 2007 at 8:19 am
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I get lots of questions on how to build an Intel AMT terminal and for good raisons. One of the most important issues is around terminal emulation. How exactly are characters coming from the serial port shown on the terminal display? Having built my own terminal in the Intel AMT DTK, I run into many [...]
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Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit v0.24 Source Code
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on March 14, 2007 at 10:49 pm
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With the latest release of the Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit, we added another downloadable package with some C# source code. This source, mostly exactly the same used by the DTK console and agent tools. The source provided is not the entire source code to the DTK tools, but it does contain a lot of [...]
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Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit v0.24 now available
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on March 14, 2007 at 10:27 am
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A few words on what's new in version v0.24 of the DTK. Once of the most important features added since the last version is the addition of a new setup and configuration tool. It's been a lot of work to build and it's not anywhere close to finished yet. It is clearly still in very [...]
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Experimenting with IDE Redirect over the Internet
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on March 6, 2007 at 10:27 pm
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One of the most powerful features of Intel AMT is IDE redirect. If Intel AMT is a tool box for administrators, IDE-Redirect is the jack hammer. One of the raisons it's so powerful is that, in any situation, an administrator can reboot the machine on to a redirected disk, allowing the administrator to transport more [...]
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Encouraging the use of TLS with Intel AMT
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on March 5, 2007 at 11:42 pm
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I sometimes have discussions with people about use Intel AMT in "Small Business" mode versus "Enterprise" mode. I have been coding applications that work with "Enterprise" mode for a few weeks now and want to share a few things. First of all, my initial impression was that both modes where vastly different and the enterprise mode [...]
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Intel AMT Enterprise mode setup and TLS-PSK
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on March 2, 2007 at 9:25 am
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Alright, Intel AMT has a dark secret. When designing Intel AMT, the engineers ran into a problem: In order to setup AMT they needed a way to load up lots of various settings, including a certificate and private key which would become the Intel AMT device security identity. But how do you securely load up [...]
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Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit version 0.21
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on February 26, 2007 at 11:45 pm
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The new version of the Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit v0.21 is now available on the Intel.com web site. Please note that I still consider all of this pre-alpha software. It includes a bunch of new features and bug fixes. One bug that showed up on the forums was the terminal crashing when it received [...]
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Building a terminal compatible with Intel AMT Serial-over-LAN
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on February 20, 2007 at 8:32 am
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One issue that was raised internally at Intel lately was the problems surrounding building a terminal that is compatible with Intel AMT Serial-over-LAN feature. I have seen two approaches: The first and most commonly used is to have the console application route all of the serial data to a local TCP port and use a [...]
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Intel AMT "Enterprise Mode" and "Small Business Mode" Provisioning
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on February 9, 2007 at 10:17 am
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I have been working quite a bit on "Enterprise Mode" lately. Currently, the Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit only supports "Small Business Mode" provisioning which is simple to setup but not as secure as Enterprise mode. The main difference between the two is that Enterprise mode optionally uses TLS for securing AMT connections. This of [...]
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Intel AMT DTK testing and bug reports
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on February 6, 2007 at 7:35 am
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Two days ago, I started receiving my first bug reports from outside Intel. Thanks to the people submitting them. Some of you noticed that when the DTK Console sample tool throws an unexpected exception, it creates an "exceptions.txt" file that you can mail me. In the near future, I want to improve my exception handling [...]
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Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit (DTK) v0.19 now online
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on February 2, 2007 at 1:37 am
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Just a quick word to say that version 0.19 of the Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit is online. People using the sample tools will find lots of improvements, but the major one is centered on development using components from the DTK. It was the topic of my last blog entry. Also, users will notice the [...]
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Build Intel AMT features into applications in minutes
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on February 1, 2007 at 1:08 am
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First off, Ajay just informed me that I now am the featured blogger! This is great; I am on the front page of the management community. Now, I have to get him to update the version of the DTK available on this site. Internally, I just released the DTK v0.20 with a few new exciting [...]
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"Power Down" and Serial-over-LAN.
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 29, 2007 at 6:01 pm
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I learn new things about Intel AMT all the time. Yesterday I was trying to figure out why I kept getting "Not Permitted" error when trying to send a "Power Down" remote command. Someone inside Intel hinted that it may have something to do with Serial-over-LAN. After checking, it did! If you have SOL connected, [...]
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Doing Intel Developer Tool Kit (DTK) demos within Intel.
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 26, 2007 at 7:05 pm
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Well, it's been a few days now with the DTK being online. They are still working on getting the tutorial videos on the site and I think it will help a lot of people. Besides, I am sure everyone online can't wait to hear my voice. Yesterday, we had many people from the Intel AMT [...]
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Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit (DTK) released.
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 24, 2007 at 5:55 am
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We finally released the Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit (DTK) on the Intel manageability web site. Version 0.14 was posted, which I consider to be a "preview" or "pre-alpha" version, it's certainly not perfect. Still, I think many developers using IAMT will really like it a lot. Basically, the package includes a sample IAMT console [...]
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Soon to be released, the Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit (DTK)
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 16, 2007 at 9:44 pm
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Hi everyone. I am Ylian Saint-Hilaire and I am the newest blogger on the Intel management community, I am also a senior lead developer at Intel and the author of a set of soon to be released tools to help fellow developers in building Intel AMT applications. Basically, for the last few months, we have [...]