Guide
Intel® Centrino® with vPro™ Technology
Intel® Core™2 Processor with vPro™ Technology
Intel® vPro™ and Intel®
Centrino® Pro
Processor
Technology Quick
Start Guide
Based on Intel® Active Management Technology and LANDesk®
Management Suite 8.8
Version 1.8
October 2008
Intel® vPro™ and Intel® Centrino® Pro Processor Technology Quick Start Guide
Contents
Preface.................................................................................................................................3
Intended Audience....................................................................................................................................................................................3
What This Document Contains...........................................................................................................................................................3
Process Overview..............................................................................................................4
Section 1: Deciding Which Provisioning Mode to Use .............................................5
Where do I go from here?.....................................................................................................................................................................5
Section 2 – Deploying Intel® vPro Using SMB (Basic) Mode Provisioning ............6
Process Flowchart....................................................................................................................................................................................6
Step 1: Configure Existing IT Infrastructure..............................................................................................................................7
Step 2: Verify Intel vPro Client Windows Drivers....................................................................................................................7
Step 3: Ensure Management Console Has the Correct Intel AMT Support.................................................................8
Step 4: Configure Intel vPro Client BIOS ......................................................................................................................................9
Step 5: Discover Intel vPro Clients Through the Management Console ...................................................................11
Step 6: Test Intel vPro Client Functionality.............................................................................................................................11
Step 7: Post Configuration...............................................................................................................................................................13
Section 3 – Deploying Intel vPro Using Enterprise (Standard and Advanced) Mode
Provisioning..................................................................................................................... 16
Process Flowchart.................................................................................................................................................................................16
Intel vPro Enterprise Setup and Configuration Flow...........................................................................................................17
Step 1: Configure Existing IT Infrastructure...........................................................................................................................18
Step 2: Verify Intel vPro Client Windows Drivers.................................................................................................................20
Step 3: Set Intel vPro Password and TLS mode in Management Console...............................................................20
Step 4: Configure Intel vPro Client Authentication Settings..........................................................................................21
Step 5: Discover Intel vPro Clients through the Management Console ....................................................................27
Step 6: Test Intel vPro Client Functionality.............................................................................................................................28
Step 7: Post Configuration...............................................................................................................................................................29
Appendix A: Troubleshooting...................................................................................... 32
An example of Successful Provisioning......................................................................................................................................34
An example of an unsuccessful Provisioning ..........................................................................................................................36
Appendix B: Glossary of Terms used in this guide................................................. 39
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Preface
This document provides the high level steps required to deploy desktop and notebook PCs with Intel®
vPro™ technology. It does not provide step-by-step procedures for completing those high level steps,
but instead provides links to more detailed information where such step-by-step procedures may be
found.
Intended Audience
This Quick Start Guide is intended for Information Technology (IT) prof essionals, system integrators,
and other technical specialists with experience deploying computer systems and networking
technologies in an Information Technology environment. It is not intended for general audiences.
What This Document Contains
Section Description
Process Overview Provides a brief overview of the overall deployment process; lists high
level steps, including decisions to be made, which are explained in
more detail in subsequent sections.
Deciding Which Provisioning Mode To
Use
Deploying Intel vPro Using SMB (Basic)
Mode Provisioning
Deploying Intel vPro Using Enterprise
(Standard and Advanced) Mode
Provisioning
Appendix A: Troubleshooting Provides information on correcting problems that may arise during
Appendix B: Glossary Provides a list of terms used in this document and their definitions.
Provides the necessary information to make the decision as to which
provisioning mode will best suit your deployment needs based on the
size and complexity of your IT environment.
Provides the overall steps to deploy Intel vPro based systems into your
IT environment using SMB (also known as Basic) mode provisioning.
Provides the overall steps to deploy Intel vPro based systems into your
IT environment using Enterprise (composed of both Standard and
Advanced) mode provisioning.
deployment.
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Process Overview
Intel® Active Management Technology1 (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 clien t system. Since you will
ultimately be utilizing the LA NDesk Management Suite to manage your vPro clients the LANDesk
Client Agent should be installed prior to provisioning Int el 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 component s (D NS, 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 M E 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 hav e 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-o f-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.
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