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HP Compaq Business PC Manageability White Paper

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High Level Comparison of Management Choices
ASF
AMT
DASH
Alert Standard Format
Active Management
Technology
Desktop and mobile
Architecture for System
DMTF
Intel
DMTF
Standard defined out-
of-band PC
management (when OS
is not running
Intel initiative
delivering enhanced
out-of-band
management
Next generation
standard for secure out-
of-band and remote PC
management based on
web services (WS-
management)
v2.0 – 2001
v2.x – 2006
v3.x – 2007
v4.0/5.0 - 2008
v1.0 – March 2007
v1.1 – December 2007
Weak PC supplier
support
Uses unpopular
connection & transport
methods (non-secure)
Poor console adoption
due to non-normative
standard
HP has offered AMT-
capable desktops and
notebooks since 2006
Console support
provided by HP
Software, Altiris,
Microsoft, LANDesk,
and others
Co-chairs: HP and Dell
Key contributors: AMD
(ATI), Broadcom, Dell,
HP, IBM, Intel, NVIDIA
Monitoring companies
include: Symantec,
Avocent LANDesk,
Lenovo, Microsoft,
Symantec
No – System must first
be remotely woken to
S0
Yes – System can be
managed in any
power state S0–S5
Yes – System can be
managed in any power
state S0–S5
Limited – Only remote
reboot and wake
Yes – Media and text
redirection, remote
wake, reboot,
shutdown
Yes– Media and text
redirection, remote
wake, reboot, shutdown
Yes-PXE
Yes – PXE and IDE
Redirect
Yes – PXE and USB
Redirect
Yes – Preset (restrictive)
Yes – Policy based
(flexible)
Yes – Policy based
(flexible)
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes – Hardware and
software inventory
Yes – Hardware and
software inventory
No
Yes – 3
rd
Party Data
Store
Yes – Opaque Data
Limited – pre-shared
keys
Yes – TLS, Kerberos
Yes – Kerberos
UDP – often blocked by
routers
TCP – preferred routing
protocol
TCP – preferred routing
protocol
RMCP – UDP based
and obscure
SOAP / WS-MAN –
well known
WS-MAN – well known