ugh!
I think my toddler has hit the terrible twos. 8 months early. Everything is a fit. Everything is SO dramatic. Everything is a battle. If this continues until he is 3… well, he may not make it to 4! (kidding, kidding)
My phone was used by someone *ahem* to clean the toilet last night. Thankfully I caught it early on in the scrubbing phase. I the battery out right away, wrapped it in paper towels and propped it up to dry. This morning it turned on but the display was a little, shall we say, waterlogged. I put it on the floorboard of the car and ran the heater this morning on the way to work. Then I left it wrapped in more paper towels and on the dashboard in the sun. Its good as new! I’m not sure if Bounty really is the quicker picker upper or if it was the sun and the heat that did it. I’m just grateful its working. I think next time I will go for that optional phone insurance!
Work is well, work. I am in the process of bringing up 4 individual domain environments. Each one needs to have Intel Setup and Configuration Service (SCS) and a Certificate of Authority (CA) running on it. One needs to have Systems Management Server (SMS) on it, a second needs to have LANDesk, a third Altiris and the last is Starnet.
I’ve been working on the SMS environment the last several days. Things are installed, configured properly (at least as far as I can tell) yet nothing is talking to anything else. Its on the domain, gets and sends packets, can discover the Intel AMT machine, it just isn’t allowed to do anything with it. I think tomorrow I am going to blow out the software on the SMS Server, reinstall from scratch and try to find the step I missed. Obviously I missed something. And if any of this made any sense to you, please feel free to offer a suggestion, a resume, a document… I am not beyond asking for help.
2 more days til the weekend. I think I can, I think I can, I think I can
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Filed under: work, parenting, technology on September 5th, 2007
hi, you may get help in the discussion forums for AMT here www.intel.com/software/manageability
I will check that out! Thank you!
The Altiris Juice site has a lot of helpful information about setting up AMT in enterprise mode and all of the configurations that are required. One of the most knowledgeable Intel engineers on the subject, Terry Cutler, has published a lot of great articles that could probably help.
So I noticed you said it sends the hello packets, but is where things are stopping? I was setting up an AMT environment yesterday (with Altiris, but not that different) and found that for some strange reason the UUID & FQDN were not pairing with the provisioning profile. There is an SCS option to create this pair and once I did this it worked immediately. We then unprovisioned the machine, removed the profile pair in SCS, opened the desktop (dc7700p), held down the reset button to put it back to factory default, and did a one-touch provision with a thumb drive and it went through without any problems at all. I strongly recommend downloading the Beta of Altiris’ OOB from http://beta.altiris.com. It has a lot of nice new features including one to many IDE-R, AMT 3.0 support, and much more. It should be shipping within the next 30 days and is a solid beta.
I will definitely check it out. At this point SMS can detect the machine but trying to manage it gives an error that the AMT username/pass are invalid. I can’t find anything in the SMS console that allows me to change it though