SOAP

Simple Object Access Protocol. SOAP is a lightweight, XML-based protocol for information exchange in a decentralized, distributed environment. SOAP consists of an envelope that defines a framework for describing what is in a message and how to process it, a set of encoding rules for expressing instances of application-defined data types, and a convention for representing remote procedure calls and responses. The Intel AMT SDK uses a SOAP-based API exposed by the Intel AMT firmware to communicate with management console software running on remote hosts. From Release 3.2, Intel AMT adds WS-Management as a management layer over SOAP. From Release 6.0, SOAP is deprecated and will no longer support new Intel AMT features.