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judekm
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November 5, 2008 8:52 PM PST
Asset inventory using the AMT SDK.

Hi,

I am interested in using the AMT SDK for developing a module which can

1. do an asset inventory of intel vpro systems.

2. do an asset inventory of non intel based system

3. do an asset inventory of intel based but not vpro systems.

What I would like to know whether this is possible? Also my target language is Java, but I have not been able to get the link of the Sample code of the RDK. Any pointers on the same will be very helpful.

 

Jude

 

 

Lance Atencio (Intel)
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November 6, 2008 6:53 AM PST
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#1

AMT is only available on Intel vPro systems, so you can only perform option 1. Please refer to the Start Here guide for more information on AMT.

The RDK is available here, but is no longer being updated or supported. You may also want to take a look at the open source site for AMT: http://www.openamt.org/
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November 6, 2008 6:39 PM PST
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#2 Reply to #1

Hi,

Though we understand that we can get asset info from non vPro machines when the systems are powered off/inoperable, but the question here is that can you help direct Jude, how can a software collect asset inventory machine when the systems powered on for non vPro machines, as well as for vpro systems get information from the AMT flash memory.

Cheers!

 
indusgeek
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November 10, 2008 12:47 AM PST
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#3 Reply to #2
Is there any sample source on the asset inventory part of Vpro, this could help in deciding the effort and time required.
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Andrew Schiestl (Intel)
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November 10, 2008 7:03 AM PST
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#4
To answer your first question, if you want to get an inventory from a powered on non-vPro system, assuming it's a Windows based machine I would recommend researching WMI.
If you want to use the flash memory in vPro (known as the third party data store), you'll be responsible for reading and writing the data into the flash memory.  In the SDK, look in the Docs folder at the storage design guide for more information on this.  For source code examples, you can look in either the Windows\Intel_AMT\Samples\Soap\Storage or Windows\Intel_AMT\Samples\WS-Management\Storage folders.
For sample source on hardware inventory in vPro (specifically hardware inventory), look at the code in Windows\Intel_AMT\Samples\WS-Management\AssetDisplay\ or Windows\Intel_AMT\Samples\Soap\AssetDisplay in the 5.0 SDK.
Gael Holmes (Intel)
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November 13, 2008 12:35 PM PST
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#5 Reply to #4

Please take a look at the Use Case links that are on the Manageability Developers Community Webpage:  Here is the overall link that has a high level description of the use cases.   Click on Use Case 3 - Hardware inventory and you should be able to get a good idea of what APIs are used and which documents to go to in order to learn more details.


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