The software bundled with Intel AMT: Part 1

By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (17 posts) on July 20, 2008 at 8:43 am

Intel AMT is basically a hardware/firmware solution where everything happens on the insides of the computer, in hardware and embedded software. The main interface is the network card - you control Intel AMT remotely.

However, many utilities are available for controlling or receiving data from a local interface - on the computer in which Intel AMT is enabled.

This local functionality is a very important part of the manageability system. Applications (administrative tools, anti-virus apps...) can stock essential data in the storage interface or set agents for software availability assessment. IT managers can perform a system update from this interface, or set user notification options.

For all this magic to happen in the computer, a special set of software is needed. Part of my work in Intel relates to this software  functionality, and in the next posts  we'll focus on each software in the package and explain what it does, how it does it and what are the methods (and consequences) of removing it. A great place to that expands on this subject is the Intel AMT overview (scroll to the Local Access section).

If you have an Intel AMT machine, the software that you have available is (your mileage may vary, depending on system manufacturer and Intel AMT generation):

We'll see more details on these, in future posts. For best results, please write in the comments any and all questions you may have on the matter!

To be continued… :)

Categories: Manageability

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July 21, 2008 3:35 PM PDT

Maria Camila Gomez-Silva
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 I loved your description of AMT and software based local functionality! I can`t wait for your next posts. My company will soon start to use the Local part of AMT integrated with our local software agent so I am pretty sure that your knowlege will be very useful! Thanks for sharing it!
July 22, 2008 12:07 PM PDT

Shmuel Gershon (Intel)
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 I hope the next posts help you, Maria.
Please let know if you have specific questions or doubts... that way I can embed the answer in the articles :)
September 15, 2008 1:29 AM PDT

Shmuel Gershon (Intel)
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 There you go, the new post in the series is now online!
Sorry for the delay, and thanks for being interested :)

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