Intel D955XBK Product Specification - Page 32

Alert Standard Format ASF Support, Intel, Active Management Technology AMT Optional - network driver

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Intel Desktop Board D955XBK Technical Product Specification 1.12.3 Alert Standard Format (ASF) Support 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 ⎯ Keyboard failure ⎯ Hard-disk failure ⎯ No boot media • Boot options to boot from different types of boot devices • Reset, shutdown, power cycle, and power up options • LAN Subsystem Software LAN software and drivers are available from Intel's World Wide Web site. 1.12.4 Intel® Active Management Technology (AMT) (Optional) 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 32

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Intel Desktop Board D955XBK Technical Product Specification
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1.12.3
Alert Standard Format (ASF) Support
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
Keyboard failure
Hard-disk failure
No boot media
Boot options to boot from different types of boot devices
Reset, shutdown, power cycle, and power up options
LAN Subsystem Software
LAN software and drivers are available from Intel’s World Wide Web site.
1.12.4
Intel
®
Active Management Technology (AMT) (Optional)
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