Product guide

How RCS Manager plug-in works

The RCS Manager plug-in helps you manage the configuration of your Intel

AMT firmware, through

McAfee ePO.

This diagram illustrates the actions involved in configuration through the RCS Manager plug-in.

The RCS Manager retrieves configuration profiles from the Intel

RCS servers, and reports back to

McAfee ePO. The server uses these profiles to configure Intel

AMT systems and lists them under the

ePO Deep Command configuration policies.

You can create configuration profiles in the Intel

RCS console, then check in the RCS Manager. You

then push it to the Intel

RCS server to retrieve the server and profile-related information.

The information is listed in the configuration policy that can be configured based on the selected Intel

RCS server and configuration profile. Customized policies are then pushed to the Intel

AMT system

through the McAfee Agent. The ePO Deep Command client initiates the configuration. Once the

process is complete, the status for success or failure is sent to McAfee ePO.

Remote configuration authentication

For remote configuration, select a user authentication method, deploy a configuration certificate, and

select a server authentication certificate.

User authentication

To configure your systems, your network infrastructure must include a supported authentication

method.

Depending on your network requirements, you can use one or both of these supported authentication

methods:

• Digest authentication — Performed over the Internet using secure keys to authenticate users.

For more information, see the Internet Engineering Task Force document RFC 2617.

• Kerberos authentication — Performed over an open network as a trusted third-party

authentication service. Use of this protocol requires Active Directory integration. For more

information, see the Internet Engineering Task Force document RFC 4120.

Basics of Intel AMT configuration

Remote configuration

McAfee ePO Deep Command 2.1.0 Product Guide