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Patrick Farrell

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Dec 26, 2006, 1:16:55 AM12/26/06
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Received some new HP DC7700P's in today. Strangely enough these have
VPRO technology whereas the HPDC7700's I ordered 2 weeks before do not..

So it was off to find out what vpro was all about and all the AMT stuff
on the boot screen.

Well now you can do inventory and things while the machine is off..
Keeps hardware/software info in nvram and allows remote boot of a
network image and remote view as if emulating serial port over a network.

Seems like this would be a nice tie in to Zen.. of course I worry that
it could supplant a lot of what zen does but then again I have a total
of 8 vpro machines in the building.

Should be interesting to see how well it's software inventory does.
Being able to pull inventory middle of the night with the machines off
and no user disruption is very interesting..

Marcus Breiden

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Dec 27, 2006, 11:24:56 AM12/27/06
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On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 06:16:55 GMT, Patrick Farrell wrote:

> Seems like this would be a nice tie in to Zen.. of course I worry that
> it could supplant a lot of what zen does but then again I have a total
> of 8 vpro machines in the building.

afaik novell is looking into that, but don't ask me when it will be done..
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Patrick Farrell

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Dec 27, 2006, 3:37:37 PM12/27/06
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Marcus Breiden wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 06:16:55 GMT, Patrick Farrell wrote:
>
>
>>Seems like this would be a nice tie in to Zen.. of course I worry that
>>it could supplant a lot of what zen does but then again I have a total
>>of 8 vpro machines in the building.
>
>
> afaik novell is looking into that, but don't ask me when it will be done..

It's weird... The new HPDC7700's are vpro.. dc7700p... they aren't
listed seperately on their site under drivers. The only main driver
difference was the addition of a PCI serial port which is for their AMT
stuff. Back to the drawing board for imaging however.. even slower than
the regular dc7700's were :)

I wonder what it stores in inventory for software.. Hardware is pretty
straight forward.

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