Intel DQ965GF Product Guide - Page 18

Intel Desktop Board DQ965GF Product Guide Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) with System Defense Feature Intel Active Management Technology offers IT organizations tamper-resistant and persistent management capabilities. Specifically, Intel AMT is a hardware-based solution that uses out of band communication to manage access client systems in addition to offering 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. NOTE Intel AMT enabled enterprise management software is required to take advantage of Intel AMT platform management capabilities. The key features of Intel AMT include: • Secure Out of Band (OOB) system management that allows remote management of PCs regardless of system power or operating system state. • Remote troubleshooting and recovery that can significantly reduce desk-side visits and potentially increasing efficiency of IT technical staff. • Proactive alerting that decreases downtime and minimizes time to repair. • Third party non-volatile storage that prevents users from removing critical inventory, remote control, or virus protection agents. • Remote hardware and software asset tracking that eliminates time-consuming manual inventory tracking, which also reduces asset accounting costs. • System Defense Feature - an Intel AMT feature for stopping the propagation of worms and viruses through the use of programmable packet filters in the integrated LAN controller. The packet filters inspect all incoming and all outgoing packets and determine whether to block or pass the packets as configured. There is no indication to the host that a packet has been blocked or accepted. Related Links: Go to the following link for information about Intel Active Management Technology: http://www.intel.com/technology/manage/iamt/index.htm 18