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Raising yet more questions about how AMT participates in enterprise WiFi authentication schemes. My laptop at work has a computer certificate which works for th
by gnu8 3y ago
Raising yet more questions about how AMT participates in enterprise WiFi authentication schemes. My laptop at work has a computer certificate which works for the OS, but how does AMT have credentials or even know which SSID to associate with?
- bri3d 3y agoThis is all available in the Intel AMT documentation. While the implementation is closed-source and opaque, this isn't some magic functionality, it's a product that businesses want and use. If the OS is running, wireless AMT forwards packets through the OS driver; it's cooperative (unlike the wired AMT, which always exists at a higher level than the OS, because it has features like resetting a crashed OS). If the OS isn't running, you provision the AMT with WiFi credentials for the AMT host, using a tool. If you want, you can use the Local Manageability Service (LMS) tool to automatically forward credentials from the OS to the AMT, otherwise, you can install specific profiles.
- blacklion 3y agoI have bitter memories about AMT and all this "remote management by Intel" from the old days. When I'd built my first home server/NAS I wanted remote control but I didn't want to pay for hardware with real IPMI/iLO/..., so I choose desktop motherboard from Intel with Q35 chipset (it was time when Z45/Q45 was cutting edge and 35th series was previous generation). NIC was Intel's one too, I think it was legendary PRO/100, not 1G yet. I was VERY disappointed to discover, that I didn't get remote console and/or remote serial port with ME/AMT at all, that it i not true AMT in desktop motherboards, even with Q chipset.