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Did you know that vPro has the capability to give you remote GUI access out-of-band (OOB) using the serial-over-LAN (SoL) interface? It's true.

Normally we think of SoL as a solution for remotely accessing BIOS or as a tool for running text based remote diagnostic utilities as part of an IDE redirection (IDR-R) session. SoL is capable of doing more than console redirection. If you look in the device manager on a vPro client and expand the Ports (COM & LPT) you will see an entry for the SoL interface:


http://communities.intel.com/openport/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/1903/com+ports.jpg

This port allows the local operating system to interact with AMT's out-of-band connection to a management console. You can try this yourself with the following steps:

  1. Open up a SoL session to your vPro client using your management console. (you can use the Manageability DTK if you do not currently have access to a management console)
  2. Open up a command prompt on the vPro client you are connected to via SoL.
  3. Enter the following command:
    1. echo hello>com3
    2. Note: the actual COM port number for your SoL interface may be different, check device manager to see what it is.
  4. Look at your SoL session on your management console. You should see the word "hello" appear in your console window.

So what does this all mean? It means that if you have some software monitoring the SoL port that you can send and receive data to your OS OOB.

A great example of how to leverage the SoL interface can be found in the Manageability DTK. The DTK gives you the ability to redirect TCP traffic over the SoL interface by utilizing an agent, the Manageability Outpost, on the vPro client. There is corresponding functionality available in the Manageability Commander tool and Manageability Director tools. This allows you to map a TCP port on your vPro client back to a TCP port on your management console and tunnel TCP traffic between your management console and vPro clients over the SoL connection.

If you combine TCP redirection with remote control software, like Remote Desktop, VNC and similar tools, you can enable OOB access to a full GUI on a remote machine.

I've put together a video that demonstrates how you can use this ability to remotely manage a client with a full GUI, including the ability to transfer files, using vPro's OOB management capabilities.


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I recently blogged about the interview with Citrix Software's Paul Hahn, Director of Business Development / Virtualization & Management Division, and Matt Edwards, Product Manager at: http://communities.intel.com/openport/blogs/ecmf/2008/09/22/citrix-software-with-intel-vpro-technology

For part 2 of this blog, you can view the actual demonstration of the software below. In this demonstration, you will see the solution explained in much more detail.

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Citrix and Intel have been working together to deliver a solution that builds on both companies expertise. The end-to-end solutions, application delivery, and virtualization software that Citrix provides combined with the manageability, performance, and security from vPro deliver a novel solution. The solution allow the IT OS build to go through a secure or trusted boot, where the hardware and software used to launch the OS is measured for integrity before the program executes. The OS can be streamed off a remote server, and the end-user gets the rich client side local execution experience.

In this video, Citrix Software's Paul Hahn, Director of Business Development / Virtualization & Management Division, and Matt Edwards, Product Manager, talk about how Citrix Systems is developing products for OS/App Streaming on top of Intel vPro technology. You will see that the virtualized, measured, and streamed OS is able to still render and rotate a rich CAD drawing.

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Ah...I love talking about virtualization. Virtualization feels like some non-reality spectrum. It is as if you can manipulate it to do anything with it. The topic just seems endless; technology is starting to run with the idea of that. With vPro, virtualization will be able to go farther. Remote manageability aids in the virtualization area. The thought of two different versions of a program being on the same client and the computer not being able to have them up is a thing of the past. They wouldn't even know that each other were there.


With the real world in mind, big companies with many different offices could stream private information to each other with vPro. This would prevent sensitive information from leaking out to the wrong hands. Hospitals would benefit from this because when their patients' files are in their data base they can just stream the whole data from their server to the client computer where the doctor is, again security would help aid against any tampering of sensitive documents.


Besides sending out vital and sensitive information, there are also necessary items that people would need that they could stream. School is a great area for that. They are implementing it in a few schools(St. Agnes Prep School Use emerge Compute Models With video). I know there are plenty of times where I have to carry three books and my back felt as if it was going to break. Also, I hated switching the books around depending on what day it was. I could have all my information on the laptop that I was carrying anyways would do me a lot more good.


With vPro, the universities will be able to have a few servers that will check on the laptops that are given out to the students. If there are any problems with the software (it wouldn't have to be just with the books, it could be with software that the university has rights to) that was being streamed the server computer can detect it and fix them remotely. As a college student, I would love to have all my information just through my computer. I wouldn't have to worry about trucking all my stuff everywhere and it's all centrally located in one area. For a company, it ensures that all information needed is gathered in one area that can be obtained by the employees and it can be relayed back and forth.


How many times have you gone to the ATM and it says that it's out of service? For the financial intuitions, how about all of those remote ATM that is difficult to go out and service the computer? With vPro the sever will be anywhere and it can service the client away from the machine, saving the financial institutes plenty because the service guy does not have to go out at all hours. They can check if there is anything wrong with it's software or hardware away from the computers within minutes.


vPro is able to extend the possibilities of virtualization. It has helped to be able communicate two (or more) computers together and talk to each other. knowing that we could go farther and farther with the technology of vPro and having Centrino2 coming out, it's only going to be even more endless. The excuse that the dog ate my homework will not work anymore. (I think I am going to try to find a virtual dog!)

Understanding vPro- Chapter 5: Enhanced Maintenance (I just want to wrap a big hug around AMT!!)

Understanding vPro: Chapter 4 vPro: What is with this trusted environment?

Understanding vPro: Chapter 3- Proactive Security- did Intel put a tiny guard dog in my computer???

“The Intern’s” Understanding vPro: Chapter 2-What is it used for/ why should I use it?

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Click to view Ylian Saint-Hilaire's profile
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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 unique TCP-over-SOL to perform a VNC session on a computer that has the operating system network stack disabled.

This video is also available in high quality within the YouTube site. You have to go into YouTube and click ont the high quality link. I am pretty impressed how must better the quality is when viewing it in high quality.

The VNC-over-SOL demonstration is probably my number one demonstration for WOW'ing an audience with Intel AMT. I sometimes also do demonstration on agent presence that is also unique to the DTK.

Ylian

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Here's a video I created to show step by step how to provisioning Intel Active Management Technology in basic mode. Check it out!

**Please Note: Basic was previously called SMB mode. Standard and Advanced were referred to as Enterprise mode. See Michele's Understanding Provisioning Models - Basic, Standard, & Advanced for explanation.


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At Intel, we're always looking for feedback on the way IT should be. Therefore, at ManageFusion, we had Intel customers, partners, and technical experts from Symantec and Intel tell us their meaning of IT Utopia. Hear their responses in the video below.





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This is my second video demonstration of Intel AMT Commander at IDF. This time, I show off Intel System Defence, Agent Presence and the benefits of using Serial-over-LAN to communicate with a OS agent while the network driver is turned off.

Ylian (Intel AMT Blog)

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A short demonstration of Intel AMT Commander working to fix an Intel Centrino Pro laptop with Active Management Technology (AMT). I borrowed the computers from the Pro Chalenge at IDF to tape this and it turned out pretty well. Probably one of the fasted demonstrations ever! Intel AMT Commander is part of the Intel AMT DTK and avaialble freely on Intel.com

Ylian (Intel AMT Blog)

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