ironic/doc/source/drivers/amt.rst

AMT drivers

Overview

AMT (Active Management Technology) drivers extend Ironic's range to the desktop. AMT/vPro is widely used in desktops to remotely control their power, similar to IPMI in servers.

AMT drivers use WS-MAN protocol to interact with AMT clients. They work on AMT 7.0/8.0/9.0. AMT 7.0 was released in 2010, so AMT drivers should work on most PCs with vPro.

There is one AMT driver:

• pxe_amt uses AMT for power management and PXE for deploy management.

Set up your environment

• Set up AMT Client

  • Choose a Desktop with vPro tag (within Intel's tag, next to CORE i5/7). Press Ctrl+P during booting to enter MEBx management.
  • Reset password -- default is admin. New password can be Cloud12345^
  • Go to Intel AMT Configuration:
    • Enable all features under SOL/IDER/KVM section
    • Select User Consent and choose None (No password is needed)
    • Select Network Setup section and set IP
    • Activate Network Access
  • MEBx Exit
  • Restart and enable PXE boot in bios

• Install openwsman on servers where ironic-conductor is running:

  • Fedora/RHEL: openwsman-python (>=2.4.10). You can get the RPM package for Fedora 20 from:

    http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Openwsman/Fedora_20/

  • Ubuntu: python-openwsman's most recent version is 2.4.3 which isn't recent enough, so you'll need to build it yourself (see next point)

  • Or build it yourself from:

    https://github.com/Openwsman/openwsman

• Enable the pxe_amt driver by adding it to the configuration option enabled_drivers (typically located at /etc/ironic/ironic.conf) and restart the ironic-conductor process:

  service ironic-conductor restart

• Enroll an AMT node

• Specify these driver_info properties for the node: amt_password,

  amt_address, and amt_username

• Boot an instance