Intel® Active Management Technology

A major barrier to IT efficiency has been lowered by Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT), a feature of Intel® Centrino® with vPro™ technology and Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology.

Using built-in platform capabilities and popular third-party management and security applications, Intel AMT allows IT to better discover, heal, and protect their networked computing assets.

The Solution to “Unsolvable” IT Issues

Extensive surveys of numerous IT organizations - including Intel's - laid the groundwork for defining and designing Intel AMT. Three of the top IT needs revealed by this research included better asset management, reduced downtime, and minimized desk-side visits. Intel design teams determined that these issues were best addressed through platform architectural enhancements, resulting in the following features for supporting those needs.

Features and Benefits

Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT)

Out-of-band system access	Discover. With built-in manageability, Intel AMT allows IT to discover assets even while PCs are powered off.¹ Plus, remote consoles don't rely on local software agents, helping to avoid accidental data loss.
Remote trouble-shooting and recovery	Diagnose. Providing out-of-band management capabilities, Intel AMT allows IT to remotely isolate and recover systems after OS failures while alerting and event logging helps reduce downtime.
Hardware-based agent presence checking	Verify. Ensuring better protection for your enterprise, hardware-based agent presence checking proactively detects that software agents are running while missing agents are automatically detected and alerts are sent to the management console.
Proactive alerting	Isolate. Proactively blocking incoming threats, Intel AMT System Defense contains infected clients before they impact the network while alerting IT when critical software agents are removed.
Remote hardware and software asset tracking	Update. Helping to keep software and virus protection up-to-date across the enterprise, Intel AMT also enable third-party software to store version numbers or policy data in non-volatile memory for off-hours retrieval or updates.

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¹ Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) requires the computer system to have an Intel® AMT-enabled chipset, network hardware and software, as well as connection with a power source and a corporate network connection. Setup requires configuration by the purchaser and may require scripting with the management console or further integration into existing security frameworks to enable certain functionality. It may also require modifications of implementation of new business processes.