Product guide

Feature Description
Maintenance tasks Configure these maintenance tasks:
• Synchronize Intel
®
AMT time • Renew Active Directory
password
• Synchronize network settings • Renew Intel
®
AMT admin
password
• Reissue Intel
®
AMT
certificates
This feature requires the Management Framework software.
McAfee Endpoint
Encryption integration
Enable Intel
®
Active Management Technology features on the McAfee
Endpoint Encryption secured systems. This action protects the Intel
®
AMT systems from unauthorized access, loss, and exposure of data.
For configuration information, see McAfee Endpoint Encryption
out-of-band management in McAfee Endpoint Encryption for PC Product
Guide.
Queries and reports Generate reports comprised of charts and tables by creating custom
queries or executing the predefined queries for the installed ePO Deep
Command components.
Intel AMT overview
Intel
®
AMT is a hardware-based technology for remotely managing and securing systems using
out-of-band communication.
With out-of-band communication, administrators can access Intel
®
AMT systems when systems are
turned off.
An Intel
®
AMT-equipped system has these qualities:
• Intel
®
AMT is part of the Intel
®
Management Engine, which is built into systems with Intel
®
vPro
™
technology and includes a separate processor.
• You can perform basic system management tasks on a system, even when it has a crashed hard
drive or if it's turned off.
• Its hardware-based remote management, security management, power management, and remote
configuration features allow you to access it from remote locations.
• It relies on a hardware-based out-of-band communication channel that operates below the
operating system level.
• The communication channel does not depend on:
• State of the operating system: present, corrupt, down, encrypted, crashed, or missing.
• Power state of the system: powered on or off.
• Presence of a management agent.
• State of many hardware components such as hard disk drives.
Using ePO Deep Command, you can manage client systems that have:
Introduction
Intel AMT overview
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