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Intel® vPro™ and Intel® Centrino® Pro Processor Technology Quick Start Guide
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Process Overview
Intel® Active Management Technology
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(Intel® AMT) provides significant flexibility in order to meet the
needs of various customer environments. This flexibility requires that customers make a number of
decisions when planning and implementing their deployment of Intel AMT-enabled systems.
The overall deployment process is shown below:
• Install the LANDesk Management System (LDMS) agent on each client system. Since you will
ultimately be utilizing the LANDesk Management Suite to manage your vPro clients the LANDesk
Client Agent should be installed prior to provisioning Intel vPro. You can either push the client
agent from the LANDesk Management Console or in the case of the One-Touch provisioning you
can pull the client agent from the LANDesk Management Console. By having the client agent
installed prior to provisioning the Intel vPro client you are not subject to your DNS resolving the
host name and therefore provisioning should be fairly quick and easy.
• Decide which provisioning mode to use (SMB or Enterprise). This decision determines which of
the subsequent sections of this guide you will use to accomplish the remaining steps (below).
See Section 1 for information on deciding which provisioning mode to use.
• Install or validate infrastructure components (DNS, DHCP, SQL Server, etc.).
• Ensure required Windows* drivers (for SOL and IDE-R) are installed on vPro clients.
• Configure your management console to manage Intel vPro clients.
• Configure Intel vPro components (Intel ME and Intel AMT) in Intel® Management Engine BIOS
Extension (Intel® MEBx) on Intel vPro clients.
• Discover Intel vPro clients in your management console.
• Test Intel vPro client management functionality in your management console.
• Perform post configuration steps (IT support process changes, maintenance procedures, etc.).
For Additional Information: Most sections will have a reference to additional information. Below is the
URL where you can locate the documents referenced throughout the paper.
LANDesk® - http://download.intel.com/business/vpro/pdfs/landesk_whitepaper.pdf
Note: If you decide to use Enterprise mode provisioning, the process described above can vary
significantly depending on whether or not you plan to use Remote Configuration, which uses Public Key
Infrastructure (PKI) to authenticate communication between the provisioning server and the Intel vPro
clients, and automates some of the steps above. See the flow chart in the next section below for a
visual representation of the overall provisioning process, and the various “paths” through it depending
on which provisioning mode and method you choose.
1. Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) is a hardware-based technology that facilitates remote out-of-band
management of computers by use of a small secondary processor located on the motherboard.
This out of band (OOB) controller has embedded firmware that runs on the Intel® Management Engine (Intel® ME), a separate
small ARC architecture processor built into either the North Bridge or NIC of the motherboard. The Intel AMT firmware is stored in
the same SPI flash memory component used to store the BIOS and is generally updated along with the BIOS.