[Maas-devel] AMT Power issues

[Christian Robottom Reis]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 05:28:23PM -0200, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 12:55:22PM -0200, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> > > I have a group at Lenovo running MAAS 1.7.1 and they have a server
> > > that uses AMT for management.  The issue they run into is that they
> > > can PXE and successfully enlist BUT on reviewing the hardware after
> > > enlistment the power type is not automatically set.
> > 
> > We have yet to find a way to automatically determine the AMT parameters
> > during the enlistment phase. We don't know of an in-band communication
> > module on Linux, though apparently it can be done using a certificate
> > (at least that's what the Technet docs suggest). If Lenovo can give us
> > more information we'd love to address this issue.
> 
> For background, the module on Linux which handles this is mei_me; the
> documentation in the kernel tree says:

FTR, I found the bug you had reported previously about this and duplicated it
to the more recent bug which has some of this information:

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/1389799