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MeshCommander is a Intel(R) Active Management Technology (Intel(R) AMT) remote management tool. It's feature rich and includes a built-in remote desktop viewer for Hardware-KVM, a Serial-over-LAN terminal, IDER-Redirection support and much more. MeshCommander is built on web technologies and runs on many plaforms. In addition to being available as a stand-alone tool, MeshCommander was built to be very space efficient to that it can be uploaded into Intel AMT flash space to have it served diretly from the Intel AMT web serve.
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Attempts to load MeshCommander into Intel AMT via Firmware Loader and MeshCMD result in error message #22

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ghost commented 4 years ago

Hi @Ylianst, I finally got around to trying out MeshCommander's Intel AMT integration with my Intel NUC earlier today but I've been running into some issues that I haven't been able to solve yet.

NUC Model: NUC7i7DNHE BIOS: Intel Corp.DNKBLi7v.86A.0069.2020.0610.1805 (latest) Intel AMT Firmware: 11.8.77.3664 (latest) Intel ME Driver: 1950.14.0.1370 (latest)

I started the process today by installing the latest BIOS and firmware for this NUC model, rebooting it, entering the Intel MEBx menu by pressing CTRL+P and changing the default password admin to a different one. Next, I enabled the networking feature and restarted the NUC again.

The Intel Management and Security Status software shows that Intel AMT is "Enabled", that the Connection Status is "Connected" and that the Intel ME is "Configured" with Control Mode "Admin". I am also able to visit and log into the default Intel AMT website at localhost:16992 using the password I set up in Intel MEBx earlier.

The problem I'm facing right now is that when I try to flash the MeshCommander website onto Intel AMT using the latest Firmware Loader (irrespective of whether I choose the Standard or Advanced version), the upload fails with the error message "The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error."

When I first encountered this error, I downloaded meshcmd.exe and tried flashing the website by using the AmtLoadWebApp command instead, but the upload also fails that way with the error message "Error, check that computer is powered on." The computer is definitely turned on since I'm running both programs from the NUC itself.

Please let me know if you need any additional info in order to troubleshoot this issue.

jsastriawan commented 4 years ago

Potential the size of MeshCommander firmware edition is larger than available space. It may need a fat trimming again.

ghost commented 4 years ago

@jsastriawan I'm not sure if this is what you were talking about, but I've found terser with its --mangle and --compress options to be quite effective in cutting down the size of JavaScript-heavy sites in the past.

jsastriawan commented 4 years ago

Aaron, MeshCommander firmware edition is minimized and compressed version of MeshCommander. Ylian's website compiler is the tool to generate this. In the last 5 development iterations, few fetures are added. Thus it may make the code size slightly increased. Some features may need to be removed for this version to maintain small size (< 115K) within FW storage limit.

ghost commented 4 years ago

@jsastriawan @Ylianst I'm sadly still getting this error using the latest version of the MeshCommander Firmware Loader (v0.8.8).

Ylianst commented 4 years ago

There is an version of Intel AMT firmware that will always return 500 error when trying to upload MeshCommander in firmware. This is not related to size or anything else. As soon as a new version of the BIOS is available, update the platform and it should fix it.

ghost commented 4 years ago

@Ylianst Thanks for the pointer! I searched around the web and eventually found an updated firmware version for this NUC model on a 3rd party site. After upgrading the firmware manually, I was able to upload MeshCommander to Intel AMT successfully. 🚀

SavvyChimp commented 4 years ago

@whalehub I have a NUC7i7DNHE with the latest BIOS (0069) and I am getting the same error trying to loading MeshCommander 0.8.8. Any chance you can send me the URL for that updated firmware on the 3rd party site? I would really appreciate it.

ghost commented 4 years ago

@SavvyChimp I downloaded the latest firmware from this site: https://www.win-raid.com/t596f39-Intel-Management-Engine-Drivers-Firmware-amp-System-Tools.html

The GitHub repository which contains the instructions I followed to install the firmware seems to have been deleted a few days ago, but I found a cached version on Google: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oOTj16yZ2CcJ:https://github.com/CHEF-KOCH/HowTo-flash-Intel-Management-Engine-ME-firmware+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=de

SavvyChimp commented 4 years ago

Thanks @whalehub really appreciate the info.

sxc731 commented 3 years ago

Hi there, how does one figure out if one's AMT firmware is causing this "Error, check that computer is powered on" issue? I have a fairly recent Comet Lake fanless PC that's exhibiting very much the same issue with MeshCmd v0.7.47. Here's some details

$ sudo ./meshcmd AmtInfo
Intel AMT v14.0.33, activated in Admin Control Mode (ACM).
Wired Enabled, DHCP, XX:YY:ZZ:AA:BB:CC, 192.168.188.143
Connection Status: Direct, CIRA: Disconnected.
$ sudo ./meshcmd AmtStorageState --password xxxxx
Storage State: {
  "information": {
    "version": 1.1,
    "realms": 16252927,
    "user": "xxxxxxx"
  },
  "content": []
}
$ sudo ./meshcmd AmtLoadWebApp --password xxxxx
Uploading MeshCommander...
Error, check that computer is powered on.

Many thanks!