Setup Guide

Dell Intel vPro Out of Band Plugin

Dell Intel vPro Out of Band Plugin provides an out-of-band management solution through a stand-alone

application on the system running on Dell Command | Integration Suite for System Center 2012. The

application allows you to remotely manage client systems regardless of the state, the system power or

operating system is in.

You can use Dell Command | Integration Suite for System Center 2012 with the Dell Intel vPro Out of

Band Plugin to perform the following tasks:

• USB Provisioning — provision and setup Intel AMT enabled client systems

• System Discovery — discover and add newly provisioned client systems

• Client Configuration — configure client system’s settings like:

– Power Profile — configure and apply the preferred power policy

– Boot Order — configure or change the boot order

– BIOS settings — configure and update the BIOS settings

– BIOS passwords — clear, set, or specify the length of your Administrator and System passwords

• Operations — perform remote operations like:

– KVM Connect — set up and run KVM sessions

– Power Management — remotely manage power settings

– Wipe Client Data — remotely format client hard drivers

• Reports — generate reports for Hardware Inventory, Battery information, Out-of-band Manageability,

and Provisioned Systems.

• Task Queue — monitor task progress and details

Software Prerequisites

Before setting up Intel vPro OOB Management Extensions on your computer:

• Prepare Active Directory Domain Services for out-of-band management. For more information see

the Microsoft TechNet article at technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg682051.

• Provision your system running Dell Command | Integration Suite for System Center 2012 to run Intel

Active Management Technology (AMT). For more information on AMT provisioning see the Microsoft

TechNet article at technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg712319.

• Download and install Intel Setup and Configuration Service (Intel SCS) 8.x or higher

• Export the provisioning certificate hash to all the AMT client systems you want to manage through

your system running Dell Command | Integration Suite for System Center 2012 . For more

information, see USB Provisioning.

• For In-Band shutdown to work correctly the system running Dell Command | Integration Suite for

System Center 2012 needs to have Windows Powershell version 2.0 installed and WinRM configured.

For more information on configuring WinRM, see Configuring WinRM.

• When using Dell Command | Integration Suite for System Center 2012 out-of-band provisioning for

clients, verify that the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager agent is not installed on those