topic Re: remote reimage in Intel® Business Client Software Development

remote reimage

Sree_C_ — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:08:00 GMT

Is it possible to reimage a machine remotely using AMT I know u can reboot using IDER , but how would u reimage a machine?

Re: remote reimage

Ajith_I_Intel — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:44:56 GMT

Hi Sree,

Thanks for the question.

You can certainly re-image a system using Intel AMT. You would need to establish an IDE-R session to boot to a image similar to BartPE (http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/)which has plug-in for Norton Ghost that can be used to re-image a system. BartPE is just an example but you can certainly use other ISO images that will let you re-image a system.

There are certain limitations when you are doing an IDE-R/SOL session with AMT. Redirection in graphical mode is not supported currently, so you would need to use an image that can be operated in text mode (non-graphical) for remote re-imaging. WinPE is another popular tool for re-imaging but it needs to be configured to run in non-graphical mode.

Hope this helps.

Re: remote reimage

fred_wilma — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:47:13 GMT

Sree,

I know at least two options how to reimage (and here I mean reinstall) client AMT-enabled host.

1)Using Microsoft RIS + PXE + Remote Control Operations
2)Using Unnatended installation disk (say XPSP2).

Prepare ISO image from the unattended XPSP2 installation disk.
Open IDER session using this ISO image
Open SOL session
Reboot AMT host with 'boot from IDER CD' + SOL option
Observe in terminal window SOL redirects all information from the 'almost automatic' XPSP2 installation proccess.