Intel Communities: Message List - How do you BEGIN to use vPro??

Re: How do you BEGIN to use vPro??

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:48:29 GMT

Absolutely. Few options

I can work with our field team to have a local rep in Marketing & Engineering come on site
We can look to a local Intel Premier IT professional event where we are showing vPro
I can see if a few internal folks from the community including myself can fly to your location and showcase the in's and out's of vPro.

shoot me a quick email at josh@intel.com or josh.hilliker@intel.com

Re: How do you BEGIN to use vPro??

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:26:35 GMT

Hello all !

I am starting using AMT on WinXP, but when the device is recognized by XP aas COM3.... I have some users who have an application that uses COM3.

I am looking for some help to change the AMT port to COM5 using scripting or command-line tools.

I was unable to find any information on Intel site.

Any ideas ?

Thanks,

Eduardo

Re: How do you BEGIN to use vPro??

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:02:46 GMT

One thing that my company might actually be interested in is a demo of the possibilities of AMT and out of band management.

I'm kind of facinated by the possibilities of this, however, for our higher ups to actually purchase software solutions which will help, I'd need some help. Every year IT personnel get together on all of our locations for our annual Tech Retreat. Is there someone we can talk to that may be able to schedule a small lecture and demo for us?

Our retreat last year we had a Microsoft rep demo Windows Vista and several Microsoft consultants talking to us about Active Directory and Microsoft infrastructure. As we're now migrating to AD, perhaps someone could talk about some various Microsoft solutions which work well with AMT. I've read up on SMS and other ISV consoles which Intel has plugins for. Convince my higher ups to help me do my job better.

Re: How do you BEGIN to use vPro??

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:47:55 GMT

The boot CD that I am using is a DOS based cd that was created using Symantec GSS. This CD is one that we often use for reimaging workstations. Basically boots up, gets an ip from dhcp, loads up ghost, and connects to a server to deploy the OS.

We are actually moving away from the DOS based cd, however we need it sometimes. Only reason I tried using the DOS cd was because I was told graphical OS's wouldn't display on the AMT Commander terminal and that text based OS's would such as linux and dos. We're moving to a WinPE solution

Well like I said, it seems that when I boot up off of remote media I cannot do forced reboots using AMT commander.

Another thing I noticed, and I'm assuming it's related, when I boot up a computer to Windows, I can login to the AMT control panel webpage on the computer. When I'm booting off of external media, such as my DOS cd, I cannot login to the AMT webpage.

Re: How do you BEGIN to use vPro??

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:41:52 GMT

Seems odd that you can reboot after a CD IDE-R boot. if you get an error please let me know.

Is there a specific tool or ISO's that we can provide that would help?

Re: How do you BEGIN to use vPro??

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:55:34 GMT

Well, we currently still aren't using this just yet too much. Once in a while I boot a computer off of a remote cd using AMT. AMT commander does work great, however everytime I try to use it, when I've boot off ot remote cd images, I can never seem to reboot the computer again using commander.

It's just not something we can widely adapt yet with our current infrastructure.

Re: How do you BEGIN to use vPro??

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:21:37 GMT

jfronius. how's your usage of vPro going? did AMT commander work out okay?

Re: How do you BEGIN to use vPro??

davidra@microsoft.com — Sat, 03 May 2008 05:37:55 GMT

It's worth noting that SOL is exposed to Windows as a virtual COM port (usually COM3 from what I've seen). That means that applications could write to COM3 and the data will show up in the SOL display.

Dave

Re: How do you BEGIN to use vPro??

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:38:17 GMT

The SoL session window supports VT100 and ANSI terminal emulation which works for boot, BIOS configuration, and text based OS's like Linux. You lose that terminal emulation when you boot into Windows XP or Vista.

More information from Terry Cutler on SOL here: Ideas for remote repair or utility disk?

Re: How do you BEGIN to use vPro??

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:58:26 GMT

Just as a quick demo for my supervisor and my fellow techies guys, I've set up roughly 30 or so machines for small business mode. I did remote SoL boot to BIOS setup from my office and reconfigured BIOS settings for my supervisor to see. "Very cool!" he said.

One thing I've noticed. Using the remote control features of AMT Commander, when the workstation has booted into Windows Vista, I do not get a display on the SoL session window. Is this normal behavior? I wouldn't really be surprised if it were isolated to Vista, being it's such a resource hog for pretty graphics. I do get a display on my SoL session when I reboot to bios setup. I haven't tried one of our XP workstations and have not yet tried booting off of a CD or floppy image

Regardless, this is really a great technology. I see lots of good things coming out of this and am quite happy to hear that my organization will be purchasing only vPro hardware in the future.