| ## Overview of Intel® Platform Administrator Intel® Platform Administration Technology delivers added value to help users in administrating computing platforms and applications in a networked environment. It includes motherboard technology components, firmware components (based on the Intel® Innovation Framework for EFI), software components for both client and servers, and Application Programming Interfaces (API's) for enabling further development of applications on Intel® Platform Administration Technology. The functionalities of 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 the platform asset monitoring and administrating capabilities. Software upgrades by provisioning new software packages to new PCs in a networked environment. System recovery and hard-disk protection capabilities. Intel® Platform Administrator is an Intel software solution built on top of Intel® Platform Administration Technology to deliver the client and server functionalities. The package includes the following: Intel® Platform Administrator Client (Professional Edition 1.0) Intel® Platform Administrator Agent (Professional Edition 1.0) Intel® Platform Administrator Server (i-cafe Professional Edition 1.0) Intel® Platform Administrator provides the features of: Multicast (1-to-many) deployment of a 1GB OS image to hundreds of clients within a few minutes in a 100Mb Ethernet environment. Block-level incremental disk image creation and deployment for quicker application software deployment and upgrades. Low performance-penalty hard-disk protection of your system from viruses and malicious operations. Network recovery with multi-check points to restore a PC to the clean state in 1-2 minutes. Hardware and software asset inventory report. OS-independent remote control: Power on, power off, reset and real-time query client status. The following picture shows the common usage scenario of Intel® Platform Administrator. The administrator needs to enable Intel® Platform Administrator Agent and install Intel® Platform Administrator Client on the client computers. In the management server, Intel® Platform Administrator Server must be installed. After these three installations have been completed, the administrator can remotely manage all clients from the server. |