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About Certification Authorities

A CA is necessary if you want to configure any of these settings in an Intel AMT device:

During configuration of these settings, Intel SCS sends a request to a CA software application to generate a certificate. Intel SCS puts the generated certificate in the Intel AMT device. Intel SCS can request certificates:

See Also:

Using Intel SCS with a Microsoft CA

Defining Common Names in the Certificate

Defining Transport Layer Security (TLS)

Defining Management Presence Servers

Creating 802.1x Setups

Defining End-Point Access Control