HP Dc7700 vPro Prerequisites and Trade-offs for the dc7700 Business PC with In - Page 3

Software Required Operating System Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 2 (32-bit version). A Windows XP Pro software images require three deliverables: • Intel ME Interface driver • SOL driver • LMS Go to www.hp.com to check for the latest versions of these deliverables. AMT 2.1 support requires a new LMS deliverable. Intel ME Interface (Intel Management Engine Interface) The Intel ME Interface driver allows third party agents in the user operating system to communicate with the ME for out-of-band access to the non-volatile data store. All third party software products supporting Intel vPro technology may not utilize these operating system services. The Intel ME Interface driver controls the management engine that enumerates under System Devices in Windows XP Device Manager. SOL (Serial-over-LAN) The SOL driver allows a management system to remotely display the keyboard interface of a managed client. The display is typically shown through a management console, and it emulates serial communication over standard network connection. This allows a management system to remotely control a client system. SOL is also known as KT (Keyboard and Text redirection). The SOL driver comes as an INF file and contains the strings for device identification. The driver uses the SERIAL.SYS and SERNUM.SYS driver from Windows XP, and appears as a COM device. LMS (Local Manageability Service) LMS is a service that enables local applications running on AMT capable systems to use the same SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) functionality available to remote applications. LMS routes all traffic to the ME firmware through the ME interface. LMS includes two components - the service and the system status. An AMT dialog box also displays at XP boot up, informing you that AMT is active. The dialog box contains a check box that allows you to prevent the dialog box from appearing in subsequent boots. This check box displays for each profile; therefore, if a new profile is created, the AMT dialog box displays for the new profile until it is disabled. IDE-R (Integrated Drive Electronics Redirect) The IDE-R is a function that allows a client system to access the ATA, ATAPI, and floppy devices on the management system. When booting through IDE-R, the client system ATA/ATAPI commands are forwarded to the management system and it will respond back to the client as if it issued the command. The remote capabilities of IDE-R allow for client systems to load operating system or diagnostic images from a management system. The IDE-R interface is fully compliant with the ATA/ATAPI-6 specification. At this time, IDE-R does not need a driver file. It is displayed as a real IDE controller during normal operation. When a remote IDE-R session is established, the Intel virtual driver string and device are shown. The 3