Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) requirements

[IanWorthington]

Looking to build a system I can remotely power cycle.

Intel AMT seems to be the thing I need to this, which requires a VPRO-enabled cpu and a Q87 chipset.

Does it also require any else on the mobo or is that sufficient? ie are all systems with a vpro cpu and a q87 chipset enabled for AMT?

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[Ken g6]

Remotely power cycle? Remotely rebooting isn't enough? There are reboot commands for both Windows and *NIX that can be executed remotely on any modern machine.

Edit: You can also issue remote shutdown commands for Windows and *NIX, and many machines support wake-on-LAN, so I suppose that sort of constitutes remotely power cycling if you can access another machine on your LAN. And that "machine" can be a router or something.

Edit2: And if you're worried about your OS locking up, you should either get a better OS 😛, or get a supervisor for that OS: a "hypervisor". I'm not absolutely sure, not having used one, but you should be able to remote-login to your hypervisor and restart your main OS if necessary. See the previous edit for turning the power on and off if the OS is reliable, and a hypervisor should be.

 

[IanWorthington]

Thanks, but notwithstanding I'd still like a system with AMT.

 

[mfenn]

Is this a server type machine? There are server boards with IPMI that let you get a full-blown video console in addition to remote power supply. I can tell you from experience that it's pretty frustrating to be able to power cycle a machine but not be able to check the console for errors. The fancier ones like SuperMicro also give you virtual media where you can remotely mount a CD or DVD image, so you can even recover the machine from bare metal if you need to.

 

[IanWorthington]

AMT supports remote KVM

 

[lopyx]

and AMT supports remotely mounting a CD/DVD and an iso