Ever since Meshcentral was first launched about 8 years ago, Intel® AMT has been a core focus of the site. Meshcentral supports Intel® AMT activation, basic hardware KVM, serial-over-LAN and power actions. It’s a great start, but it was far from having a full Intel AMT management console. Today, we are changing all that with the first integration of Manageability Commander Web Edition into Meshcentral.com. First the first time, we have a web based Intel® AMT management console available for use over the Internet.
For people who don’t know, we are building a new version of Manageability Commander that is fully web based. It’s available as a standalone tool running in NodeWekit, but the same code base can run hosted within other cloud services. This is great is you want to manage Intel® AMT completely within web browser without any add-in’s. Meshcentral is one of many logical landing spots for Manageability Commander. Meshcentral provides activation and traffic routing services supporting cloud management over Intranets and Internet using peer-to-peer and CIRA.
The new Manageability Commander code base offers many benefits. For example, the hardware KVM feature in Meshcentral used to not support compression, and so, was very slow. The new viewer supports full ZRLE8 and ZRLE16 tile compression allowing for much better KVM performance over the Internet. All of the WSMAN/KVM/SOL smarts is built in JavaScript and runs in the browser, greatly simplifying the server that focuses on connection relay. Administrators can now manage Intel AMT user accounts, event log and more… as Manageability Commander evolves, new versions of the code will be integrated into Meshcentral, so the console will get better over time.
Feedback appreciated,
Ylian Saint-Hilaire
info.meshcentral.com
The new Intel® AMT tab show up within the MeshCentral
web site for computers that support Intel® AMT.
Manageability Commander Web Edition within MeshCentral
was tested on FireFox, IE, Chrome and Edge.
Manageability Commander Web Edition when working within MeshCentral allows
peer-to-peer and CIRA routing of Intel® AMT connections, for true cloud management.
