Synse AMT Plugin

A plugin for Synse Server used to communicate with Intel AMT enabled machines.

Getting Started

Getting

You can install the AMT plugin via a release binary or via Docker image

docker pull vaporio/amt-plugin

If you wish to use a development build, fork and clone the repo and build the plugin from source.

Running

The AMT plugin requires device configurations for the AMT-enabled servers that it will communicate with in order for it to run. As such, running the plugin without additional configuration will cause it to fail.

A simple example of what device configurations may look like can be found in the config/device directory. Once you have your plugin configurations defined, you can update the compose file to mount them into the plugin container and run it with:

docker-compose up -d

Plugin Configuration

Plugin and device configuration are described in detail in the SDK Documentation.

There is an additional config scheme specific to this plugin for the contents of a configured device's data field. Device data may be specified in two places (the prototype config and the instance config sections). The data scheme describes the resulting unified config from both sources.

An example:

devices:
- type: boot_target
  instances:
  - info: Server Boot Target
    data:
      ip: "127.0.0.1"
      password: "guest"

Field	Required	Type	Description
ip	yes	string	The hostname/ip of the AMT-enabled server to connect to.
password	yes	string	The AMT password for the server.

Reading Outputs

Outputs are referenced by name. A single device may have more than one instance of an output type. A value of - in the table below indicates that there is no value set for that field. The built-in section describes outputs this plugin uses which are built-in to the SDK.

Built-in

Name	Description	Unit	Type	Precision
state	The power state of an AMT device.	-	state	-

Device Handlers

Device Handlers are referenced by name.

Name	Description	Outputs	Read	Write	Bulk Read	Listen
boot_target	A handler for setting server boot target.	-	✗	✓	✗	✗
power	A handler for managing server power state.	state	✓	✓	✗	✗

Write Values

This plugin supports the following values when writing to a device via a handler.

Handler	Write Action	Write Data	Description
boot_target	target	pxe, hd, cd	The boot target to set.
power	state	on, off, cycle	The minimum bound for readings to be generated within.

Compatibility

Below is a table describing the compatibility of plugin versions with Synse platform versions.

	Synse v2	Synse v3
plugin v1.x	✓	✗
plugin v2.x	✗	✓

Troubleshooting

Debugging

The plugin can be run in debug mode for additional logging. This is done by:

• Setting the debug option to true in the plugin configuration YAML (config.yml)

  debug: true

• Passing the --debug flag when running the binary/image

  docker run vaporio/amt-plugin --debug
  

• Running the image with the PLUGIN_DEBUG environment variable set to true

  docker run -e PLUGIN_DEBUG=true vaporio/amt-plugin
  

Contributing / Reporting

If you experience a bug, would like to ask a question, or request a feature, open a new issue and provide as much context as possible. All contributions, questions, and feedback are welcomed and appreciated.

License

The Synse AMT Plugin is licensed under GPLv3. See LICENSE for more info.