Intel Active Management Technology
Intel's Active Management Technology (AMT) is a comprehensive solution to allow remote management of PCs from the hardware perspective. Using this technology, an administrator can do the following to a remote computer:
- Power up/down/cycle
- Redirect the harddrive to a network location
- Redirect the mouse, keyboard and screen for remote control
- Verify that Anti-Virus agents, etc, are installed - even if the host OS is powered down.
- Rebuild a corrupted harddrive either over the network or from a local image.
- Interrogate certain aspects of the host operating system.
The AMT components interface deeply into the motherboard - the CPU, MMU and Network card are all involved.
The AMT Management Engine runs several services which are accessible via XML Web Services (SOAP) so that a remote administrator can manage the machines. This is done through a 'Management Console' facility, such as Microsoft_System_Center.