Intel® vPro™ Technology

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Configuring Intel® Active Management Technology

Introduction

Most hardware or software products need some kind of initialization or setup before becoming operational. Personal computers (PCs) based on Intel® vPro™ technology are no different in this regard. The IT administrator of these PCs needs to properly configure them for the IT environment in order to derive maximum benefit from deploying this technology. Intel would like computers enabled with Intel vPro technology to be the systems of choice for most businesses worldwide; to this end, a wide choice of options and tools have been made available to set up and configure Intel vPro technology, catering to a wide range of businesses. Our goal in this article is to explore the most dominant IT deployment scenarios, describe how configuration procedures for computers enabled with Intel vPro technology are integrated into the existing IT procedures in an enterprise, and delve into protocol details in those areas that are of interest to our readers. The actual entity in the computer’s hardware that is configured within the computer is the Intel® Active Management Technology subsystem (Intel® AMT).

We formally define the Intel AMT configuration process as the initial procedure of setting up an out-of-the-box Intel AMT client system with all the necessary configuration options required for it to be operable and managed remotely by the governing IT organization.

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