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Intel® Platform Administration Technology
Overview
Intel®
Platform Administration Technology
Intel® Platform Administration Technology (Intel® PAT) is an Intel software solution
to deliver client and server functionality. The package includes the following: Image and Asset Management Package ·
Intel®
Platform Administration Technology Server ·
Image and Asset Management Client ·
Agent Update Client Hard Disk Restore Package l
Client
Hard Disk Restore l
Agent Update Content and Service Management
Package ·
Content and Service Management Server ·
Content and Service Management Client ·
Content and Service Management Service
Console Intel®
Platform Administration Technology is an
integrated, cost-effective, and easy-to-use manageability platform solution
for small and medium-sized network environments. It provides
manageability functions that assist IT administrators in maintaining clean
and stable systems with high efficiency. Intel® Platform Administration Technology is based on the Intel®
Platform Innovation Framework for EFI, including motherboard technology
components, firmware components, and software components for both clients and
servers. Intel® Platform Administration
Technology delivers high efficiency management service to help
users in administrating computing platforms and applications in a networked
environment. It includes: ·
Motherboard technology components ·
Firmware components (based on the
Intel® Platform Innovation
Framework for EFI) ·
Software components for both
clients and servers Intel® Platform Administration
Technology can assist in: ·
Out-of-box PC set up by automating
and simplifying OS and software installations for multiple PCs. ·
Daily maintenance and operational
PC management with platform asset monitoring and administration capabilities. ·
Software upgrades by provisioning
new software packages to multiple PCs in a networked environment. ·
System recovery and hard-disk
protection capabilities. Intel® Platform Administration
Technology provides the following features: ·
Multicast (1-to-many) deployment OS
images up to 1GB in size to hundreds of clients within a few minutes in a
100Mbps Ethernet environment. ·
Block-level incremental disk image
creation and deployment for faster application software deployment and
upgrades. ·
Low performance-penalty hard-disk
protection of your system from viruses and malicious operations. ·
Network recovery to restore crashed
PCs. ·
Hardware and software asset
inventory reports. ·
OS-independent remote management:
Power off, reset and real-time query of client status. Typical Scenario
The
following picture shows the most common usage scenario for Intel® Platform
Administration Technology. The administrator needs to do the following: ·
Enable Agent on the client computers ·
Install Client Hard Disk Restore on the client
computers ·
Install Intel® Platform Administration
Technology Server on the management server After
these three operations are completed, the administrator can remotely manage
the clients from the server. |
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