Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) is hardware-based technology built into PCs with Intel vPro technology. AMT is designed to help sys-admins remotely manage and secure PCs out-of-band when PC power is off, the operating system (OS) is unavailable (hung, crashed, corrupted, missing), software management agents are missing, or hardware (such as a hard disk driveormemory) has failed.[1][2][3][4][5]
Intel AMT is built into a small secondary processor located on the motherboard. This OOB controller has embedded firmware that runs on the Manageability Engine (ME), a separate small processor built into the northbridge (ornetwork card for AMT 1.0) of the motherboard. The AMT firmware is stored in the same SPI flash memory component used to store the BIOS and is generally updated along with the BIOS. FWH (Firmware Hub) or LPC firmware storage is not supported for AMT.[2]
In general, an AMT version can be updated in software to the next minor version. New major releases of Intel AMT are built into a new chipset, and are updated through new hardware.
The following is a comparison of the various features supported by each version of Intel AMT[13][14]
| Feature | AMT version | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMT 1.0 (Desktop) |
AMT 2.0/2.1 (Desktop) |
AMT 2.5/2.6 (Mobile) |
AMT 3.0 (Desktop) |
AMT 4.0 (Mobile) |
AMT 5.0 (Desktop) |
6.0 (Desktop & Mobile) |
7.0 & 8.0 (Desktop & Mobile) |
9.0 (Desktop & Mobile) |
10.0 (Desktop & Mobile) |
11.0 (Desktop & Mobile) |
12.0 (Desktop & Mobile) | |
| Hardware Inventory | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Persistent ID | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Remote Power On/Off | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SOL/IDE redirect | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Event Management | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Third-party Data Storage | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Built-in web server | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Flash Protection | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Firmware Update | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| TCP/IP, SOAP XML/EOI | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No[note 1] | No[note 1] | No[note 1] | No[note 1] | No[note 1] |
| HTTP Digest/TLSv1.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No[note 2] |
| HTTP Digest/TLSv1.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| HTTP Digest/TLSv1.2 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes[note 2] |
| Static and dynamic IP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| System Defense | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Agent Presence | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Power Policies | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mutual Authentication | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Kerberos | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| TLS-PSK | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Privacy Icon | No | 2.1 and up | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MEWake-on-LAN | No | 2.1 and up | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Remote Configuration | No | 2.2 and up | 2.6 and up | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Wireless Configuration | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Endpoint Access Control (EAC) 802.1 | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Power Packages | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Environment Detection | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Event Log Reader Realm | No | No | 2.6 and up | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| System Defense Heuristics | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| WS-Management interface | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VLAN settings for Intel AMT network interfaces | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Fast Call For Help (CIRA) | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Access Monitor | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MSNAP support | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Virtualization Support for Agent Presence | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PC Alarm Clock | No | No | No | No | No | 5.1 and up | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| KVM Remote Control | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Wireless Profile Synchronization | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Support for IPv6 | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Host-based Provisioning | No | No | No | No | No | No | 6.1 and up | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Host-based over the Internet Provisioning | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Zero-touch over the Internet Provisioning | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Graceful Shutdown | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Screen blanking | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Graceful power operations | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Secure erasure of storage nodes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Feature | AMT 1.0 (Desktop) |
AMT 2.0/2.1 (Desktop) |
AMT 2.5/2.6 (Mobile) |
AMT 3.0 (Desktop) |
AMT 4.0 (Mobile) |
AMT 5.0 (Desktop) |
6.0 (Desktop & Mobile) |
7.0 & 8.0 (Desktop & Mobile) |
9.0 (Desktop & Mobile) |
10.0 (Desktop & Mobile) |
11.0 (Desktop & Mobile) |
12.0 (Desktop & Mobile) |
| AMT version | ||||||||||||
