Anyone using vPro or AMT to get KVM over IP?

Handruin

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I think my Lenovo T500 has Intel AMT. I never really looked into it or understood what it was for. I can try some stuff on it if you think it'll help. I don't know how to access it as a KVM over IP though...
 
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I'm still learning but I have decided I definitely want some form of this for my NAS box. The intel solution seems to have some catches though, check out note 2 on this page:
http://www.intel.com/products/core_vpro/
² KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) Remote Control requires the presence of integrated graphics and therefore is only available with dual-core Intel® Core™ i5 vPro™ processors and Intel® Core™ i7 vPro™ processors.
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Think that is only referring to the new stuff though, not the older series?


Only other thing I have investigated is this:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H&IPMI=Y
With the IPMI software here
http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/IPMI.cfm
I have downloaded that software and looked at the KVM section which looks very promising and there is even the provision to feed it floppy or CD-ROM ISO's. Exactly What I am looking for but the damn thing isn't available yet, at least no one showing stock.
 
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Oh, and this document on pages 5 and 9 explain why I am so interested in it. Lots of examples on why you want it but not so much on the how.
http://www.intel.com/intelpress/articles/iamt2.htm

I am just sort of at a roadblock in understanding what is required to get all this to work with intel. For example Handruins Lenovo T500 seems to have a version 4.x and I don't see KVM in the features. Looks like you can do things like inventory and hardware monitoring, maybe even some basic hardware setup things.
 
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This stuff is probably where it would be beneficial to pay attention to all the Intel Channel Partner training BS they email out...
 
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If I decode the Supermicro part numbers right anything that ends in a -F at the end has IPMI. Some Tyan stuff has it but those seem to be only xenon platforms mostly.

Appears that IPMI 2.0 has KVM built in, not sure why intel isn't using that very much instead of inventing this other technology.
 
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I won't be able to test this for a while. There are some BIOS settings I need to change, and I don't have a service window for a few days.
 
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Wow, that was worth the wait and a bit of money. KVM over IP just worked out of the box.

supermicroIPMI2KVMoverIP.png
 
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Out of the box default was ADMIN for the user and pass, case sensitive. What I changed it to nobody knows!

Funny story, apparently the POS DVD ROM I put in this is toast and gave me a lot of "could not initialize ui subsystem" errors. I made an ISO on a good machine with nero and mounted it through IPMI and I am booting off of that successfully. The motherboard sees the ISO as a USB DVD drive. Timing is a little tricky because if you power it off it will disconnect after 10 seconds or so and you lose the connection to the images you are feeding it.

I am simply thrilled all this works and works so simply, only refereed to the help file two or three times like for that default password.
 
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