Description Of Active Management Technology - Siemens SIMATIC IPC547E Operating Instructions Manual

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8.7 Description of Active Management Technology

Power failure recovery
The following two settings are possible in the "Power Failure Recovery" BIOS setup entry:
● The device switches on automatically.
The device switches on automatically when the device was separated from the mains
supply for at least 20 s. This setting is of importance even if the device is always switched
off with a hardware reset. By switching on the power supply at a later time again, the
device always starts automatically.
● The on/off/ button must be operated.
The device does not switch on automatically.
Note
Automatic startup may endanger the operation of the machine or plant, for example, after a
power failure. Take this into account when designing the plant.
8.7 Description of Active Management Technology
Active Management Technology is technology for the remote maintenance of computers,
simply called AMT-PC in the remainder of the document, which includes the following
functions:
● Keyboard-Video-Mouse-Redirection
Using KVM that is integrated in the AMT hardware you access the AMT PC remotely.
With KVM Redirection, you can also control AMT PCs that have no operating system or a
defective operating system. A KVM remote session is always possible with the KVM
server integrated in the firmware. This means you can restart the PC and change the
BIOS setup remotely.
● Remote power management
AMT PCs can be turned on and off and restarted from another PC.
● Serial over LAN
Redirection of the data of a serial interface to the network. The main use of the function is
text-based remote control of an AMT PC using a console.
● IDE redirection
An ISO file on the help desk PC can be mounted on the AMT PC and used as a DVD
drive. An ISO file contains a memory image of the content of a CD or DVD structured in
the ISO 9660 format.
● Remote reboot
An AMT PC can be booted remotely from a bootable ISO file made available by another
PC.
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