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.