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Note From the Team

Hey everyone,

May has flown by and we have a whole set of improvements based on issues filed by our customers! You will also notice that instead of one monthly release, each component has several releases this month. As our team continues to improve our release process this will be the new norm: continuous releases throughout the month with a roll-up announcement at the beginning of the following month. Check out the release video where Bryan talks about the highlights from this month and see below for changes in each component.

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Best wishes,
The Open AMT Cloud Toolkit Team

What's New?

Database update required An upgrade to the rpsdb database is required. Please run the following SQL script to add the new column and constraint before upgrading the services:

ALTER TABLE IF EXISTS profiles
ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS ip_sync_enabled BOOLEAN NULL;

More information or detailed steps can be found in Upgrade Toolkit Version.

New Feature: Local configuration via RPC

We have heard from some of our customers that they would prefer to have more direct control over configuring AMT features. To support his request, we have added a new capability to RPC: Local Configuration. You will now be able to configure some features of AMT without going through RPS. This is great for configuring AMT if the device is not able to connect to RPS. The first two configuration options that make use of this feature are a new maintenance command addwifisettings and a new deactivate option using the -local flag.

New Feature: IP Sync option in AMT Profile

We have exposed a new option in our AMT profile to allow customers who are using static IP addresses to not have the IP address of AMT synced with the host OS during configuration of AMT.

Fixed: PXE and BIOS boot control

Enabling boot control for booting to BIOS and PXE should now work again!

New Feature: Delete device secrets

We've added a new query parameter to the MPS DELETE device API call that will instruct MPS to also delete the secrets associated with the device (AMT Password, MEBx Password, etc). Take care using this! If you are using randomly generated passwords, once they are removed from the secret store, there is no recovery and getting access to AMT. This may require clearing the system CMOS to factory reset AMT.

Get the Details

Additions, Modifications, and Removals

RPS

v2.11.0

  • add/expose ipSyncEnabled in amt profile for wired interface (#890) (#314632a)

MPS

v2.9.0

  • added a query param to delete device from secrets (#854) (#3e8512a)

v2.8.4

  • changes to reset to PXE (#752) (#4da936b)

v2.8.3

  • update kvmConnect property on CIRA connection close (#888) (#37307fe)
  • Device deletion request from RPS (#886) (#dd483d6)

RPC

v2.9.0

  • cli: addwifisettings directly without cloud interaction (#117)

v2.8.0

  • deactivate a device in CCM from RPC (#92)

WSMAN-MESSAGES

v5.4.0

  • cim: enables clearing BootConfigSetting (37fd792)

v5.3.2

  • handle empty data in protectedPut (#466) (efc33d3)

v5.3.1

  • resolves issue in protectedPut default parameter (#463) (7ee3cee)

v5.3.0

  • amt: adds AddKey call to PublicKeyManagementService (#461) (8d739c2)

Sample Web UI

v2.9.1

  • url encode get and delete REST path params (#1144) (#8262ba5)

v2.9.0

  • add/expose ipSyncEnabled in amt profile for wired interface (#1123) (#3625bcd)

Project Board

Check out our new Feature Backlog project board to see issues and prioritized items we're working on across all of our repositories. You'll also see what is coming in our next release!