Alert Standard Format (Asf) Support; Intel Active Management Technology (Optional) - Intel D975XBX2 - Desktop Board Motherboard Specification

1.11.3

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:
• 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.
1.11.4 Intel
Intel Active Management Technology (Intel 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
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Active Management Technology (Optional)
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