[BBLISA] Intel Manageability Engine

[Peter Doherty]

> On Dec 21, 2014, at 10:51 , Daniel Feenberg <feenberg at nber.org> wrote:
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> This is actually still of interest to us.
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> On Sat, 26 Jul 2014, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
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>> I have a number of Supermicro servers which show that the "Manageabiltiy Engine" or "Management Engine" is enabled if I look in "Advanced" in the CMOS setup. However, there is no indication anywhere of what that is, or how to configure it. Googling that phrase brings up many postings about using it for remote control, but I haven't found any way to configure an IP address for it. Or is it just another name for the (insecure) IPMI?
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>> Has anyone been able to use the ME for remote monitoring or control? How did you configure it? There are postings from people claiming to use it to update firmware, but that doesn't interest me, only configuring for remote control.
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>> Daniel Feenberg
>> NBER


In case you missed the HN post a few days about it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8813029
http://www.slideshare.net/codeblue_jp/igor-skochinsky-enpub


-peter