HP Dc7800 HP Compaq Business PC Manageability White Paper - Page 6

High Level Comparison of Management Choices - desktop pc

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

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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
Sponsor
DMTF
Intel
DMTF
Description
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)
Introduced
v2.0
2001
v2.x
2006
v3.x
2007
v4.0/5.0 - 2008
v1.0
March 2007
v1.1
December 2007
Industry support
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
OOB
Management
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
Remote Control
Limited
Only remote
reboot and wake
Yes
Media and text
redirection, remote
wake, reboot,
shutdown
Yes
Media and text
redirection, remote
wake, reboot, shutdown
Remote Boot
Yes-PXE
Yes
PXE and IDE
Redirect
Yes
PXE and USB
Redirect
Event alerting
Yes
Preset (restrictive)
Yes
Policy based
(flexible)
Yes
Policy based
(flexible)
Event logging
No
Yes
Yes
Asset Information
No
Yes
Hardware and
software inventory
Yes
Hardware and
software inventory
Non-Volatile
Storage
No
Yes
3
rd
Party Data
Store
Yes
Opaque Data
Secure
Communication
Limited
pre-shared
keys
Yes
TLS, Kerberos
Yes
Kerberos
Transport Layer
UDP
often blocked by
routers
TCP
preferred routing
protocol
TCP
preferred routing
protocol
Remote Control
Protocol
RMCP
UDP based
and obscure
SOAP / WS-MAN
well known
WS-MAN
well known