HP Dc7800 vPro Prerequisites and Trade-offs for the dc7800p Business PC with I - Page 8

AMT vs. ASF HP Compaq dc7800 and dc7800p Business PC products are configured for AMT by default, but can support both AMT and ASF (Alert Standard Format). Once AMT is provisioned, ASF is no longer available (and vice-versa). AMT provides equivalent or better alerting and remote control capabilities with supporting management console software. Customers and IT professionals must determine which management standard is right for them. Comparison of AMT vs ASF Capabilities Capabilities AMT ASF OOB (Out Of Band) Management Yes - From any power state (S0, S3, S4, S5) Limited - System must be in S0, needs to be remotely woken first Remote Control Yes - SOL, IDE-R, reboot, wake, shutdown, and more Limited - Remote reboot and wake only Event Alerting Yes - Policy-based (flexible) Yes - Preset (restrictive) Non-Volatile Storage Yes - Third Party Data Store (3PDS) No Event Logging Yes No Remote Boot Yes - PXE or IDE-R Yes - PXE Asset Information Yes - HW and SW No Remote ME FW Update Yes No Secure Communication TLS / HTTP Digest Simple Authentication Connection Protocol HTTP (Accessible by Web browser) RMCP Layer 4 Stack TCP (Preferred routing protocol) UDP (Often blocked by routers) Broad Enterprise ISV Support Yes No 8