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Steps to enable remote control of a computer with Intel® AMT using MeshCommander

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/15

For my link archive to remotely administer some Intel 3060 Micro machines: [Wayback/Archive] Steps to enable remote control of a computer with Intel® AMT using MeshCommander

Summary Steps to enable remote control of a computer with Intel® AMT using MeshCommander

Description How can I connect to a PC (Personal Computer) with Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) capability and access the desktop?

Resolution To have full control of the remote machine:

  1. Install MeshCommander to desired PC
    1. Launch Mesh Commander tool
    2. Click Add Computer
    3. Add IP address of remote machine to be connected
      1. Scan an IP address range and discover more machines with the capability
    4. After adding the desired IP’s, click Connect on the desired IP to connect to the machine
  2. Left panel contains more options; check all of those options and use them when required
    1. To remote control the machine, select Remote Desktop
  3. When opening the Remote Desktop option, the KVM (Keyboard – Video – Mouse) option must be enabled
    1. Click on the red banner to enable
  4. Select the Redirection Port, KVM Remote Desktop and other two options
  5. Click OK
  6. Wait a few moments while the connection to the remote machine is established. (Connect button)

Notes:

  • Power on the machine, restart, boot directly from network, etc, use Power Actions.
  • If the PC is working Headless, no monitor plugged to the embedded graphics card, it is necessary to attach a Video Emulator to the video port of the system. Otherwise, KVM will not have access to the BIOS.

Related

MeshCommander

AMT out of band management

VNC

MeshCentral

  • [Wayback/Archive] MeshCentral
    Freely manage
    your devices.
    The open source, multi-platform, self-hosted, feature packed web site for remote device management.

    …

    MeshCentral is a community driven open source remote management web site built on NodeJS and available freely on NPM. You can get started with the “Public Server Login” button on the upper right to use the public at your own risk community server for free and then move on to installing your own server. The server and management agent run on Windows, Linux, MacOS and FreeBSD.
  • [Wayback/Archive] MeshCentral – Downloads

    Getting started is easy. If you don’t have it already, install NodeJS. Then, create an empty folder and do this:

    npm install meshcentral
node node_modules/meshcentral

    That’s it. MeshCentral will set itself up and start managing computers on your local network. By default it will be setup in LAN mode and agents you install will multicast on the local network to find the server. To setup the server so that agents use a well known DNS name and to start customizing your server, go in the “meshcentral-data” folder and edit the config.json file. The configuration file must be valid JSON, you can use this link to validate the file format.

    For Windows users, you can download the MeshCentral Installer that will automate installation of NodeJS and provide basic configuration of the server. This option is not recommanded for advanced users.

  • [Wayback/Archive] MeshCentral – Terms of use

    Terms & Privacy

    This server is run for free as part of the community that builds MeshCentral, the open source remote control management web site. This site is not associated with any companies or corporations, it’s run by myself in the spirit of benefiting the open source community. There is no obligation or expectations that this site to be running now or in the future or that this site is now or will be in the future secure and/or free of hackers or security issues. Really, you use this site completely at your own risk. If the site goes down, please don’t mail anyone that it’s not working. You should not be using it for anything important in the first place. If you are a business, please don’t depend on this web site for running your business.

    …

    Running your own MeshCentral server is cheap. You can use an Amazon AWS t3.nano running Amazon Linux2 for 3.75$/month plus traffic cost and manage about 100+ devices easy. An Amazon AWS t3.medium will manage 10000+ devices for 30$/month plus traffic cost. So there is no excuse not to run your own server. You get to only allow the people you want and access all administrator controls. Other options include installing the MeshCentral server on a normal desktop PC or even a Raspberry Pi for managing computers on your local area network.

    …

On GitHub

[Wayback/Archive] Ylianst (Ylian Saint-Hilaire)

 

[Wayback/Archive] gomesjj (Jose Gomes)

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