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BIOS
5.2.5. AMT Configuration
Intel
®
Active Management Technology (Intel
®
AMT) is a hardware-based solution
that uses out-of-band communication for system administrators to monitor and
manage the computers and other network equipment by remote control even
if the hard drive is crashed, the system is turned off or the operating system is
locked.
This submenu features the settings of iAMT’s BIOS extension, which are
required to make use of iAMT.
Setting Description
Intel AMT
Enables/disables Intel
®
Active Management Technology BIOS
extensions.
Note iAMT hardware is always enabled.
This setting only controls the execution of BIOS extension
execution.
Enabled is the default.
When enabled, additional firmware is required in the SPI device.
Activate
Remote
Assistance
Process
Enables/disables CIRA (Client-Initiated Remote Access) boot.
Disabled
is the default.
AMT CIRA
Timeout
Customizes the timeout for the establishment of MPS connection.
This setting is only available when Activate Remote Assistance
Process is enabled.
Set it to 0 to use the default timeout value of 60 seconds.
Set it to 255 to have MEBx (Management Engine BIOS
extension) wait until the connection succeeds.
CIRA means “Client Initiated Remote Access”.