About Intel Amt Wireless Support; About Asf - Symantec ALTIRIS OUT OF BAND MANAGEMENT COMPONENT 7.0 SP3 - IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE V1.0 Implementation Manual

24 Introducing Out of Band Management Component
How Out of Band Management Component works

About Intel AMT wireless support

About ASF

Out of Band Management Component credentials (continued)
Table 1-4
Credentials
PID-PPS security key
pair (Enterprise mode
only)
(Intel AMT 2.5, 2.6, 4.0, 6.0 and later)
Out of Band Management Component lets you configure wireless features of Intel
AMT through wireless profiles. A wireless profile defines how the system connects
to the wireless access point when the operating system is not loaded. Different
wireless profiles can be created and used to support different access points.
Through wireless profiles you can configure the following features:
Key management - Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA).
Robust Secure Network (RSN) key management schemes are supported.
Encryption algorithm - Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) and Counter
Mode CBC Mac Protocol (CCMP) are supported.
Authentication - A pass phrase or 802.1x profile can be used to ensure that
only authorized users can establish a connection with the Intel AMT device.
ASF (Alert Standard Format) is an industry standards-based technology that lets
IT administrators manage computers regardless of the operating system state.
ASF performs completely out of band and only relies on the operating system to
configure the solution.
ASF provides alerting and power management functionality as long as the
computer is plugged in with Ethernet connection. ASF functionality is
accomplished through hardware on the network card or system board, a software
agent on the client computer, and management software on the server.
Altiris Out of Band Management Component, Altiris Real-Time Console
Infrastructure, and Altiris Real-Time System Manager software support ASF 2.0.
Description
A pair of security keys that are used to ensure secure
communications between the configuration server and the Intel
AMT computer. After a computer is configured, these keys are
no longer used.
These keys are generated and entered into the Intel AMT device
during the initialization process.
See "About Intel AMT initialization" on page 58.