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[Mike Pontillo <mike.pontillo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Jeffrey Lane <jeffrey.lane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> That model seems to be the only 5th generation model (that I could
> easily find) that has AMT support.  You may be able to find older
> generation ones as well.
>

For what it's worth, I'm using the [older] DC53427HYE model, and AMT was
flaky out of the box (with BIOS version 17, it seemed to decide to power
itself on "randomly", which made it difficult to use with MAAS). But after
updating to BIOS version 42, it works great. A word of warning (and I hate
to say this): when you update the BIOS, take care to use a flash drive
which had originally been formatted under Windows. (The flash updater could
be more robust in its support for different incantations of FAT32, to put
it kindly.) At one point I feared I had bricked my NUC because the flash
updater couldn't deal with a USB stick I had formatted with Ubuntu.

The other recommendation I have for NUC AMT users is to leave the "MAC
Address" field blank when entering the power information, and just use the
power address. (Press Control-P when the NUC to enter management setup, and
give it a static IP address.) This will make MAAS more reliable, since it
will not try to "discover" the correct IP address to use. (it can only do
that based on ARP - and you might not have an ARP entry.)

Regards,
Mike