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Build RPC-Go Manually

Developed in Go* programming language, the Remote Provisioning Client (RPC) application runs on the managed device and communicates with the Remote Provisioning Server (RPS) microservice on the development system. The RPC and RPS configure and activate Intel® AMT on the managed device. Once properly configured, the remote managed device can call home to the Management Presence Server (MPS) by establishing a Client Initiated Remote Access (CIRA) connection with the MPS. See Figure 1.

Production Environment

In a production environment, RPC can be deployed with an in-band manageability agent to distribute it to the fleet of AMT devices. The in-band manageability agent can invoke RPC to run and activate the AMT devices.

Figure 1: RPC Configuration
Figure 1: RPC Configuration

Figure 1 Details

The RPC on a managed device communicates with the Intel® Management Engine Interface (Intel® MEI, previously known as HECI) Driver and the Remote Provisioning Server (RPS) interfaces. The Driver uses the Intel® MEI to talk to Intel® AMT. The RPC activates Intel® AMT with an AMT profile, which is associated with a CIRA configuration (Step 3). The profile, which also distinguishes between Client Control Mode (CCM) or Admin Control Mode (ACM), and configuration were created in Create a CIRA Config or Create an AMT Profile. After running RPC with a profile, Intel® AMT will establish a CIRA connection with the MPS (Step 4) allowing MPS to manage the remote device and issue AMT commands (Step 5).

Overview

This guide details how to manually build the RPC-Go binary for development or testing purposes.

Important - RPC-Go Prebuilt Binaries

Just need the binary and don't want to build it manually? Download the latest RPC-Go binary version from the RPC-Go GitHub Repo Releases Page for the Operating System of the AMT device (Windows or Linux).

Prerequisites

Clone the RPC-Go Repository

  1. Open a Terminal or Command Prompt and navigate to a directory of your choice for development: 

    git clone https://github.com/open-amt-cloud-toolkit/rpc-go --branch v2.37.0

  2. Change to the cloned rpc-go directory: 

    cd rpc-go

Build RPC

Flexible Deployment - RPC as a Library

The RPC can be built as an executable file or as a library, which offers the flexibility of deploying in your management agent or client. Read more about building RPC as a library here.

  1. Open a Terminal (Linux) or Powershell/Command Prompt as Administrator (Windows):

    go build -o rpc ./cmd/main.go

    go build -o rpc.exe ./cmd/main.go

    docker build -f "Dockerfile" -t rpc-go:latest .

  2. Confirm a successful build.

    RPC must run with elevated privileges. Commands require sudo on Linux or an Administrator Command Prompt on Windows.

    sudo ./rpc version

    .\rpc version

    sudo docker run --rm -it --device=/dev/mei0 rpc-go:latest version