ASRock Q77M vPro Quick Start Guide - Page 4

Intel® vPro™ and Intel® Centrino® Pro Processor Technology Quick Start Guide 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 or validate infrastructure components (DNS, DHCP, SQL Server, etc.). • Ensure required Windows* drivers (for SOL and IDE-R) are installed on Intel vPro clients. • Install Intel® SCS and HP OOBM software. • Intel SCS and Intel vPro Setup: provides steps for setting up and configuring the SCS Provisioning Server and the Intel vPro device. • OOB Management Console Installation: specifies system requirements and tells you how to install, configure, and start the OOB Management Console. • Configure your management console to manage 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.). 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. 4