Intel® AMT Open Source Drivers and Tools
Introduction
The OpenAMT project is the place where you can find Intel® AMT open source drivers and tools supporting local OS access to Intel hardware manageability features. The main two components of the openamt project are the MEI driver and LMS.
The Intel Management Engine Interface (Also known as HECI) driver is a software interface that is used to communicate with the Intel® AMT subsystem (Management Engine) in the Management Engine (ME) to access Intel® AMT capabilities in the firmware. In other words, communication between the local host operating system (OS) and the Management Engine (ME) is accomplished by means of the Intel Management Engine Interface driver. The Intel Management Engine Interface is bi-directional, as either the host OS or the Management Engine (ME) can initiate transactions.
The Local Manageability Service (LMS) is a service that runs locally (in the user space) on the host operating system. LMS listens for requests directed to the Intel® AMT local host and intercepts SOAP/HTTP messages addressed to the local host and routes them to to the Management Engine via the Intel Management Engine Interface driver. In short, LMS enables local management applications to send requests, and receive responses to the local Intel® AMT device.
LMS is actually a proxy service, which transfers TCP requests (open connection, close connection & TCP packets), between host management applications and the Management Engine in the firmware, via the Intel Management Engine Interface host driver.
Both LMS and MEI driver are essential for any local AMT applications and agents that need to access AMT on the local system.
License
- Intel Management Engine Interface (HECI): Dual BSD/GPL
- LMS: BSD
- UNS: GPL
- MEStatus: BSD
- ZTC Local Agent: BSD
Download
The latest released version of the driver and AMT tools can be downloaded for sourceforge. The development version of some of tools and the MEI driver can be checked out from subversion.
Documentation
- Getting Started with Intel® AMT on Linux
- Available Components
- Architecture Guide: Intel® Active Management Technology
Support / Mailing list / Feedback
We value all feedback from the open source community, and encourage extensive testing of the technologies presented in the Intel® AMT technology preview.
For general discussions, suggestions, questions, and project announcements, please use the openamt-devel mailing list.
For bug reports, please file a bug using the ticket system.
Contact
Anas Nashif <anas.nashif at intel.com>
Credits
- MEI Driver: Itzhak Tzeel-Krupp, Marcin Obara
