Intel® vPro™ and Intel® Centrino® Pro Processor Technology Quick Start Guide
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management console.
Skip to Step 5: Discover Intel vPro Clients through the Management Console, on page 27.
Step 4C: One-Touch Configuration of Intel vPro Client - Factory State to Setup State
The Intel vPro clients need authentication information configured on them so that they can authenticate
themselves to the provisioning server; otherwise the server won’t provision them. This authentication
information is made up of a Provisioning ID (PID) and a Provisioning Pass-phrase (PPS). Together they
are referred to as a PID-PPS pair. The server maintains a list of valid PID-PPS pairs, which is matched
against any incoming PID-PPS pair from a client requesting provisioning. If the client’s PID-PPS
matches one of the entries in the server’s list, that client is provisioned.
Note. Do not confuse the TLS security keys that are part of management console interaction with the
Intel vPro machine and the TLS-PSK keys that are used during setup and configuration. These are
separate keys. Once the TLS-PSK keys are used during the setup and configuration stage, they are not
used again unless an Intel vPro machine is re-provisioned. Whereas, the other TLS keys are used for all
communications from the management console to the Intel vPro machine.
Step 4C-1: Confirm Latest BIOS Version: It is important that you use the latest BIOS and firmware
version from the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM). Please visit their website to determine the
latest versions. If an update is needed, follow the instructions provided by the OEM to implement the
update.
Examples of OEM BIOS updates
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HP:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodN
ameId=3232116&prodTypeId=12454&prodSeriesId=3232030&swLang=13&taskId=135&swEnv
OID=1093
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Lenovo:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-67881.html
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Dell:
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&ServiceTag=&Sy
stemID=PLX_PNT_P4_745C&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid
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Step 4C-2: Create PID-PPS security keys in LANDesk. Before you can configure the PID-PPS
information on the Intel vPro clients, you need to generate that information in the LANDesk
management console.
1.
Open the LDMS console.
2.
Open the “Configure” > “Intel vPro options” > “”ID Generation” option. An option to generate
Intel AMT IDs is displayed.
3.
Generate the IDs. These IDs contain the PID-PPS pairs that you will then load onto your Intel
vPro client machines.
