Intel I5, I7 Manage PCs regardless of power state

White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs

Manage PCs regardless of power state

PCs based on the all new 2010 Intel Core vPro processor family are designed to give IT technicians greater remote visibility into and access to the system in both wired and wireless states, as described in Table 4. When managing PCs with the all new 2010 Intel Core vPro processor family, technicians can remotely power up a PC almost anytime. (In order to prevent unexpected battery use in laptops, remote power-up is not applicable to the battery-powered, wireless sleep state.) Technicians can also reboot the PC, use secure console redirection and KVM Remote

Control, and use other critical maintenance and management capabilities of a new 2010 Intel Core vPro processor for wired or wireless PCs. PCs can even perform their own local, scheduled wake from any powered-off state without a network connection. The PC can then call into a central server for updates, maintenance, and other off-hours tasks.

With the ability to remotely manage PCs regardless of power state, IT can streamline more work and implement more automation. In turn, this helps business minimize user downtime, reduce IT service costs, and realize a rapid ROI.

Table 4. Capability matrix for PCs with new 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ processors.

				Works with wired		AC-powered wired or wireless			Battery-powered
						laptop or wired desktop			wired or wireless laptop
				PC-initiated secure
Use Cases		Usages		communication outside		AWAKE,	AWAKE,		AWAKE,	AWAKE,
	a		a	corporate firewall	a	PROPERLY	UNRESPONSIVE		PROPERLY	UNRESPONSIVE
						OS WORKING	BUT OS	Asleep (Sx)	OS WORKING	BUT OS	Asleep (Sx)
		IT remotely powers PC down, then
Remote power		up again to reset to clean state						YES	YES		N/A
		(or powers up PC for servicing).		YES		YES	YESb			YESb
up/power cycle
		Use power management to
		reduce energy costs.
Remote		Power up PCs during off hours
		for software updates. Also client-		YES		YES	YESb	YES	YES	YESb	N/A
software update		initiated scheduled wake for
		update.
Agent presence		Ensure critical applications are
checking and		running, and be quickly notified		YES		YESc	YESb	N/A	YESc	YESb	N/A
alerting		when they miss a check in.
System isolation		Automated or manual policy-based		YES		YES	YESb	N/A	YES	YESb	N/A
and recovery		protection against virus outbreaks.
		Identify and prevent unauthorized
Protection for		access to encrypted data, or disable
		the laptop remotely or via client-side				YESc	YES		YESc	YES
data if a laptop		intelligence if it is lost or stolen.		N/A				N/A			N/A
is lost or stolen		Upon lock-down, disable or delete				for laptops	for laptops		for laptops	for laptops
		access to encryption keys. Rapid
		reactivation if laptop is returned.
		Diagnose and repair problems
Remote		remotely via out-of-band event
		log, remote/redirected boot,
diagnosis and				YES		YES	YESb	YES	YES	YESb	N/A
		console redirection, KVM Remote
repair
		Control,2 and preboot access to
		BIOS settings.
Remote		Take a hardware or software
hardware and/or								YES	YES		N/A
		inventory regardless of OS state or		YES		YESc	YESb			YESb
software asset
		power state.
tracking

aIT must activate Intel® vPro™ technology in order to take advantage of these intelligent security and remote manageability technologies. For more information about activating Intel vPro technology, which includes Intel® AMT and Intel® AT, see page 25 of this white paper.

bRequires WPA or WPA2/802.11i security and Controller Link 1 for wireless operation when the user OS is down.

cAlso available when using host OS-based VPN.

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