1. What is Intel® AMT and Intel® vPro™?

Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) is a feature ofIntel® vPro™ technology supported by Intel® Centrino® and Intel® Core™2processors. Intel® AMT Technology provides a hardware-assistedmanageability capabilities:

• remote pc turn on
• remote BIOS management
• remote cold restart and shutdown (even if system is down or not responding)
• remote boot from local CD or image file
• and many more...

2. How do I know that my computer is Intel® AMT ready?

There are 2 simple conditions your system must correspond with:

1. Your Motherboard must support processors with vPro™ technology (Intel® Centrino® with vPro™ or Intel® Core™2 with vPro™). This means that your Motherboard already contains an On-Board Ethernet Controller with Intel® AMT-enabled chipset.
2. You must have any modification of Intel® Centrino® or Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ installed onto your Intel® Motherboard.

3. Setting up an Intel AMT Client (BySreelekshmy Syamalakumari, Intel)

Well, let’s start from the Bios settings. When you boot up thesystem, get into Intel® AMT Manageability Engine's (Intel® AMT ME)settings (how to do this vary among the OEMs. For some, there will be amessage to hit while booting up to get into the MEBxsettings; for others, hitting F2 (or Del) while booting will take you tothe Bios settings where there is a separate tab for Intel® AMT ME).Do the following steps in the Bios settings:

Intel® AMT Manageability Engine's configurations:

1. Change the default Intel® AMT ME password: the default password is "admin". Change that to a stronger password. Guidelines for creating a good Intel® AMT ME password:
   • The minimum length: 8 characters
   • At least one digit character: 0...9
   • At least one non alpha-numeric character: !,$,~,#,_,+,-...
   • Latin characters: both lower-case (a,b,...,z) and upper case (A,B,...,Z)
2. Select Manageability feature as Intel AMT
3. Select the power policies: this can be done through bios, WebUI or Intel AMT SOAP interface. Visit Gael's blog here on a nice overview of various power packages.

Intel AMT configurations:

1. Enable/Disable DHCP (For mobile systems, you have to use DHCP)
2. Host Name & IP Address: If you are choosing static IP, you have to have separate Host Name & IP Address for Intel ME than your host CPU. If you are choosing DHCP, you can use the same Host Name and IP Address for Intel ME as the host CPU.
3. Provisioning: Small Medium Business (SMB)/Enterprise. Guidelines for deciding on whether to use SMB or Enterprise mode can be found here.
4. Enable SOL/IDE-R

Hit F10 to save the settings and reboot the system. Now, confirm thatyou have the following drivers installed on your system:

• Intel 82566DM Network Interface Controller
• Intel Management Engine Interface (aka HECI driver)
• Serial-Over-Lan (SOL) Driver
• IDE-Redirect Controller
• Intel® Active Management Technology LMS Service
• Intel® AMT System Status Service

If not, you can install them from the driver CD that comes along withyour system. Or you can find them in the OEM site. Also, it isrecommended to check your OEM site in between to see if there are anyBios updates.

The next step is to check if you can access the AMT client systemfrom the Management system. Before doing this turn off any firewall onyour client and the management system. Try to ping the client fromthe management system.

Now, you can connect to the client system from the management systemusing WebUI. Intel AMT device has a built-in web interface which canbe used by the management system to connect to the client and changesome of the configuration parameters. For doing this, open an InternetExplorer window on your management system and type:http://ipaddress:16992 where ipaddress is the IP Address of clientsystem. Enter the username and password that you had used for MEBx inthe log on window to log into the client system. Once you are there,you can see detailed information on the CPU, memory, disk etc. You canuse this WebUI for changing your client settings including IPsettings, host name, ping response, editing user accounts and updatingthe firmware.

Once these steps are completed, your AMT client is set upsuccessfully and ready to go. Now you can use a Radmin Viewer 3.3 toremotely manage your client system.

4. Accessing AMT features remotely using free Radmin Viewer 3.3

To connect to a remote computer via Intel® AMT connection mode:

1. Add a phonebook record for the target computer.
2. Right-click on the record to display the Record context menu.
   
   
3. Choose the Intel® AMT menu item.
4. Choose the AMT operation to be performed.