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Intel® vPro™ and Intel® Centrino® Pro Processor Technology Quick Start Guide

Intel vPro Enterprise Setup and Configuration Flow

Prior to executing the steps for configuring the Intel vPro components (Intel AMT and Intel ME) in Enterprise mode (either Standard or Advanced), it is first important to understand the overall flow of the Enterprise mode configuration process (recall that the main difference between Standard and Advanced is that if you provision your clients in Advanced mode, all management traffic between the management console and the managed clients will be encrypted using cert-based encryption).

In Enterprise mode, an Intel vPro machine receives its configuration settings over the network, once it has been prepared with some initial setup information. The following diagram shows the modes or states that an Intel vPro device passes through before it becomes operational.

Intel vPro Configuration States:

1.	Factory State
	–	AMT disabled	SETUP
	–	No network configuration
	–	No security credentials	(Pre-Provisioning)
2.	Setup State
	–	AMT enabled
	–	Basic network configured	CONFIGURATION
	–	Admin credentials loaded

(Provisioning)

3.Configured State

–AMT fully configured (e.g power policies)

–Security credentials fully loaded

–Ready for remote management

Factory State: An Intel vPro machine comes from the OEM in Factory State. In this state Intel AMT is un-configured and not available for use by management applications. When an operator enters information via the Intel Management Engine BIOS extension (Intel MEBx) manually or with the aid of a USB storage device, the Intel vPro machine makes the transition into the setup state. See Step 3 – Configure AMT Client BIOS for instructions on how to prepare an Intel vPro machine to receive its configuration settings from a Setup and Configuration Application (SCA) which is inherent in LDMS.

Setup State: When an Intel vPro machine enters Setup State it waits for delivery of its configuration settings from the LDMS core server. After it enters setup mode, the Intel vPro machine periodically sends messages to the LDMS core server. When the LDMS core server receives messages from the Intel vPro machine, it responds by delivering the configuration settings and placing the device in Operational State.

Operational State: The Intel vPro machine enters Operational State once its configuration settings have been supplied and committed. At this point the Intel vPro machine is ready to interact with management applications.

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