Manual

Product Description

⎯ OOB diagnostics

⎯ Remote control

⎯ Remote BIOS update

• Proactive alerting that decreases downtime and minimizes time to repair.

⎯ Programmable policies

⎯ Operating system lock-up alert

⎯ Boot failure alert

⎯ Hardware failure alerts

• Third party non-volatile storage that prevents users from removing critical inventory, remote

control, or virus protection agents.

⎯ Nonvolatile storage for agents

⎯ Tamper-resistant

• Remote hardware and software asset tracking that eliminates time-consuming manual inventory

tracking, which also reduces asset accounting costs.

⎯ E-Asset Tag

⎯ HW/SW inventory

For information about Refer to

Intel Active Management Technology Section 1.3, page 15

1.11.5 Alert Standard Format (ASF) Support (Optional)

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NOTE

Alter Standard Format (ASF) support is available only on boards that use the Intel 82573E

Ethernet Controller or the Intel 82562GZ PLC device.

The board provides the following ASF support for PCI Express x1 bus add-in LAN cards and PCI

Conventional bus add-in LAN cards installed in PCI Conventional bus slot 2:

• Monitoring of system firmware progress events, including:

⎯ BIOS present

⎯ Primary processor initialization

⎯ Memory initialization

⎯ Video initialization

⎯ PCI resource configuration

⎯ Hard-disk initialization

⎯ User authentication

⎯ Starting operating system boot process

• Monitoring of system firmware error events, including:

⎯ Memory missing

⎯ Memory failure

⎯ No video device