Intel VPro/AMT - Management Tool - Remote Installation Of Windows / Linux

good remote management solution.

As the Intel vPro chip set looks very nice and has all this, what we need (remote power management, hardware analysis/informations, kvm, etc) we bought one main board with that chip set.

We had now the problem to find a software which has a good support for the Intel vPro chip set. We found and tried:

Intel AMT Developer Kit
LANDesk
Microsoft System Configuration Manager 2007
SyAM Software

The onliest software, which was install able and connect able at the moment, was the Intel AMT Developer Kit. Software like LANDesk and MS SysConfigMgr needs Windows Server Versions with and without Windows Domain. We succeeded (after fixing the requirements of each software) to install everything, but no software is able to connect to the vPro chip. Only the Intel AMT Developer Kit does.

The Intel AMT Developer Kit looks on the first look enough anf powerful. We can power on, off, reset, we see hardware informations, we can enter also the bios over remote console. But as soon as we want to start remotely a cd, for example simple memtest86 image, it doesn't gives any display.

Does someone of you has good experience in this system?

Has someone some suggestions, what software else is existing?

We want to manage linux/unix based and windows as well.

With manage we mean, to install and to maintain.

If here is some company, which can help us, also if it costs some money, we would be glad to get in touch.