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amttool(1)             DragonFly General Commands Manual            amttool(1)


NAME

       amttool - remotely control Intel AMT managed machines.


SYNOPSIS

       amttool host [ command ] [ arg(s) ]


DESCRIPTION

       amttool is a perl script which speaks SOAP to Intel AMT managed
       machines.  It can query informations about the machine in question and
       also send some commands for basic remote control.

       host is the hostname or IP address of the machine amttool should
       control.  command is an optional command.

       You must set fill AMT_PASSWORD environment variable with the AMT
       password.

       For more inforamtions on Intel AMT check amt-howto(7).


COMMANDS

       info   gather information (default).

       reset [ special ]
              reset machine, with optional special command (see section
              below).

       powerup [ special ]
              turn on machine.

       powerdown
              turn off machine.

       powercycle [ special ]
              powercycle machine.

       netinfo
              print network configuration (requires AMT 2.5+).

       netconf if link [ ip mask gw [ dns1 [ dns2 ]]]
              configure network interface (requires AMT 2.5+).  if is the
              interface handle, link the link policy.  If in doubt just feed
              in what the netinfo command prints.  ip is the IPv4 address,
              mask the netmask, gw the default gateway, dns1 and dns2 are the
              DNS Servers.  If no IP configuration is specified the tool tries
              to configure the machine in shared mac address mode with dhcp,
              otherwise in separate mac address mode with static IP address.
              Default for dns1 is the gateway address, for dns2 it is 0.0.0.0.


SPECIAL COMMANDS

       Special commands can optionally be specified for reset, powerup and
       powercycle.  They change the default boot behavior of the machine.

       bios   Asks for the BIOS boot messages being redirected to serial-over-
              lan.

       pxe    Network boot via PXE.

       hd     Boot from local disk.

       hdsafe Boot from local disk (safe mode).

       cd     Boot from CD/DVD.

       diag   Boot in diagnostics mode.


ENVIRONMENT

       AMT_PASSWORD
              AMT password.

       AMT_DEBUG
              Enable debug output.


SEE ALSO

       amtterm(1), gamt(1), amt-howto(7)


AUTHOR

       (c) 2007 Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>

                           (c) 2007,08 Gerd Hoffmann                amttool(1)

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