Activation Blog
5 Posts authored by: Josh Hilliker
If you are seeing any failures in your log around setting the hostname during a Remote configuration it could be due to a underscore in the host name. Check out Terry Cutlers post on altiris juice @ http://juice.altiris.com/tech-tip/1622/underscore-not-supported-in-intel-amt-hostnames . Terry references the RFC952 - DoD Internet host table specification @ http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc952.html. Here are the assumptions from that specification.
ASSUMPTIONS
1. A "name" (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up
to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z), digits (0-9), minus
sign 
, and period (.). Note that periods are only allowed when
they serve to delimit components of "domain style names". (See
RFC-921, "Domain Name System Implementation Schedule", for
background). No blank or space characters are permitted as part of a
name. No distinction is made between upper and lower case. The first
character must be an alpha character. The last character must not be
a minus sign or period. A host which serves as a GATEWAY should have
"-GATEWAY" or "-GW" as part of its name. Hosts which do not serve as
Internet gateways should not use "-GATEWAY" and "-GW" as part of
their names. A host which is a TAC should have "-TAC" as the last
part of its host name, if it is a DoD host. Single character names
or nicknames are not allowed.
Nick & I got together this week and evaluated a few platforms for their AMT settings in the BIOS. In this video, Nick explains how to get into each BIOS and where the options for AMT are ( or for that case where they are NOT ).
Here are a few screen shots of two of the platforms. We are also going to publish out a matrix of the systems with drivers, bios settings that Frank has been working on.. stay tuned for the link.
I witnessed our Internal IT guys defining a BKM that I thougth was very relevant to share out to the community, therefore let me explain.
Challenge: How can you use a mgmt console to read the AMT version so you can write a report in your mgmt console?
Output: You need to have a value placed into the registry that has data whether it's all of the BIOS, MEBx, SOL, HECI, etc.. driver versions, then you can read this data into a mgmt report.
Solution: run MEInfowin.exe and redirect the output to a text file using the “>” operator
Example --
Then you need the write a program in your favorite language such as VB script or C# to read through that text file and write the desired into to the registry.
Then use your mgmt console to read these values & report out. The internal IT guys are doing this to check versions.
Thanks Intel IT folks for the BKM.