Amt (included in intel vpro and centrino pro) provides out-of-band (oob) management for desktops and laptops, using an agent integrated in the network adapter and in the motherboard.

serial-over-lan provides a secure way to connect a remote computer, through a pseudo serial interface.

amtterm and gamt are two terminal tools to connect to that pseudo serial interface from a remote computer. amttool is a perl script to gather information about and remotely control amt managed computers.