Manual

Intel Desktop Board D945GCZ Technical Product Specification

1.11.4 Intel

Active Management Technology (Optional)

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NOTE

Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) is available only on boards that use the Intel

82573E

Ethernet Controller.

Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) offers IT organizations tamper-resistant and

persistent management capabilities. Specifically, Intel

AMT is a hardware-based solution that

offers encrypted and persistent asset management and remote diagnostics and/or recovery

capabilities for networked platforms. With Intel AMT, IT organizations can easily get accurate

platform information, and can perform remote updating, diagnostics, debugging, and repair of a

system, regardless of the state of the operating system and the power state of the system. Intel

AMT enables IT organizations to discover, heal, and protect all of their computing assets,

regardless of system state in the manner described below.

• Discovering hardware and software computing assets:

⎯ Intel AMT stores hardware and software asset information in non-volatile memory and

allows IT to read the asset information anytime, even if the PC is off

⎯ Users cannot remove or prevent IT organization access to the information because it does

not rely on software agents

• Healing systems remotely, regardless of the operating system or system state:

⎯ Intel AMT provides out-of-band diagnostics and recovery capabilities for IT organizations

to remotely diagnose and repair PCs after software, operating system, or hardware failures

⎯ Alerting and event logging help IT organizations detect and diagnose problems quickly to

reduce end-user downtime

• Protecting the enterprise against malicious software attacks:

⎯ Intel AMT helps IT organizations keep software versions and virus protection consistent

and up-to-date across the enterprise

⎯ Version information is stored in non-volatile memory for access anytime by third party

software to check and, if necessary, wake a system to perform off-hours updates

The key features of Intel AMT include:

• Secure Out of Band (OOB) system management that allows remote management of PCs

regardless of system power or operating system state.

⎯ SSL3.1/TLS encryption

⎯ HTTP authentication

⎯ TCP/IP

⎯ HTTP web GUI

⎯ XML/SOAP API

• Remote troubleshooting and recovery that can significantly reduce desk-side visits and

potentially increasing efficiency of IT technical staff.

⎯ System event log

⎯ IDE-Redirection or PXE boot; Network drive or remote CD boot

⎯ Serial over LAN