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Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) for Embedded and Communications Applications
Intel® Active Management technology (Intel® AMT)¹ is a hardware- and firmware-based solution, providing system managers with "any platform state" access. Using Intel AMT to remotely discover, heal, and protect computing assets 24x7, system managers can respond more efficiently, while reducing operating costs.
Using built-in platform capabilities and popular third-party management and security applications, Intel AMT allows system managers to:
- Discover assets even while systems are powered off, or the OS is inoperable
- Diagnose, isolate, and recover systems after OS failures helping to reduce downtime
- Verify that software agents are running and proactively protect your enterprise with hardware-based agent presence checking
- Isolate and proactively block incoming threats while alerting system managers when critical software agents are removed
- Update software and virus protection across the networked systems, and 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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Features and Benefits
| Out-of-band system access | Allows remote management of platforms regardless of system power or OS state |
|---|---|
| Remote trouble-shooting and recovery | Significantly reduces on-site visits and trucks rolls, increasing the efficiency of technical staff |
| Proactive alerting | Decreases downtime and minimizes time-to-repair |
| Remote hardware and software asset tracking | Increases speed and accuracy over manual inventory tracking, reducing asset accounting costs |
| Third-party nonvolatile storage | Increased speed and accuracy over manual inventory tracking, reducing asset accounting cost |
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Technology brief: Intel® AMT
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Intel AMT can improve system management efficiency by using built-in platform capabilities and popular third-party management and security applications.
- Video: Remote platform management with Intel AMT
Intel AMT is enablement technology that allows for the remote management of platforms, including embedded systems, even when the system is powered off.
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White paper: Powering Retail Market Trends with Advanced POS Platforms
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By using Intel AMT, next-generation point-of-sale (POS) workstations get built-in manageability that increases uptime and helps drive down the total cost of ownership (TCO) for customer-centric applications.
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NCR introduces industry-leading POS technologies
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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. With regard to notebooks, Intel AMT may not be available or certain capabilities may be limited over a host OS-based VPN or when connecting wirelessly, on battery power, sleeping, hibernating or powered off. For more information, see www.intel.com/technology/platform-technology/intel-amt/.