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Enable iAMT

The s ettings for ME and iAMT can be changed locally in the MEBx menu.

• ME = Management Engine is the central component of Intel AMT

• iAMT = the manageability function of ME

• MEBx (M anageability Engine BIOS Extension) = extension of the BIOS for

setting the properties of ME and iAM T

Calling MEBx

During the boot process, the following messag e appears on the monitor for about 2 seconds:

Press CTRL-P to enter Intel® ME Setup.

► During this time, press the key combination

CTRL

(or on a G erma n keyboard

STRG

) and

If th e request does not appear, you must ﬁrst enable it in the B IO S Setup. On

desktop systems and w orkstations, the message is disabled by default. Please

refer to the BIOS Manual for more information.

When assigning pa sswords, be aware that the US American keyboard layo ut is

invoked in the BIOS. For example, the

and

keys are transposed.



The password must meet the following criteria:

• 8 – 32 characters long

• At least one character must be a n umber

• There must be at least one non-alphanu meric character such as !,$,;

• There must be at least one upper-case and at least one lower-case character

The following c haracters may not be used:

• , (comma)

• ’ (apostro phe)

• : (colon)

You can now conﬁ gure the iAMT fun ctions via the MEBx menu.

You will ﬁnd a comprehensive description of all the items in the MEBx menus for the

current AMT version in the Intel documentation, Intel

Management Engine BIOS Extension:

http://communities.int el.com/ community/openportit/vproexpert?vie w=docu ments"

Desktop systems

To ena

ble on PC systems, read the BIO S manual.

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