Users Guide

Provisioning Using A USB Device
The client systems on the network have to procure a digital provisioning certicate before deploying the Intel Management and Security
Status application using remote conguration.
To export your certicate hash to the client systems using a USB storage device:
1 Launch Dell Command | Intel vPro Out of Band.
For more information, see Launching Dell Command | Intel vPro Out of Band.
The USB Provisioning screen is displayed.
2 Enter your Management Engine (ME) password in the Current Password section, and then enter a New Password for AMT and
conrm it.
NOTE: The AMT password must contain a minimum of eight characters made up of uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and
nonalphanumeric characters excluding :, _, and ".
NOTE: If you are entering the Current Password for the rst time on the Management Engine(ME), the default
password is admin .
3 Under USB Key click Browse and point to the location of the USB storage device.
4 Select the drive format for your USB storage device.
5 Select the Enable remote conguration of user consent policy option if you want to allow the administrator to override the client
system's user consent policy.
6 Select the OOB Provisioning (enabling will start hello packets immediately) option if you want to send hello packets immediately.
7 Select the Consumable Records option to record the systems that are provisioned.
8 Select the type of Hash Algorithm that you used to create the certicate le.
9 Browse and select the Certicate File you want to apply on your client systems for AMT provisioning.
10 Enter a name for the certicate le.
11 Click Create Key.
The USB provision key is created.
Client Selection
This feature discovers provisioned Dell client systems on the network.
NOTE
: If you have installed Dell Command | Intel vPro Out of Band to manage your Dell KACE AMT assets, the discovery feature
is unavailable as discovery operations are managed by your Dell KACE software.
NOTE: Windows rewall may block your client systems from being discovered by Dell Command | Intel vPro Out of Band. Ensure
that you have disabled the rewall prior to running a discovery task.
1 Launch Dell Command | Intel vPro Out of Band.
For more information, see Launching Dell Command | Intel vPro Out of Band.
2 Click Client Selection.
3 Under the Discovery Method select the method to discover the client system:
• By DNS — searches for client systems in the same domain that Dell Command | Intel vPro Out of Band is running on.
• By IP Range — specify an IP range to search for Dell client systems
4 From the Discovered clients list, select the client systems you want to manage and click the button to move your selected systems
or press the
button to move all the discovered Dell clients into the Selected clients list.
5 Select one of following options to modify the list of client systems to the database.
• Add new client systems only — adds the client-systems that were previously not discovered from the list of selected client
system.
• Add and/or update client systems — adds and updates all the selected client systems.
Using Dell Command | Intel vPro Out of Band
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