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.