Alert Standard Format (Asf) Support; Intel ® Active Management Technology (Amt) (Optional) - Intel DESKTOP BOARD D955XBK Manual

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:
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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
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Monitoring of system firmware error events, including:
⎯ Memory missing
⎯ Memory failure
⎯ No video device
⎯ Keyboard failure
⎯ Hard-disk failure
⎯ No boot media
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Boot options to boot from different types of boot devices
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Reset, shutdown, power cycle, and power up options
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LAN Subsystem Software
LAN software and drivers are available from Intel's World Wide Web site.
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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
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.
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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
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AMT is a hardware-based solution that