Wired for Management was a primarily hardware-based system allowing a newly built computer

Computer

A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...

 without any software to be manipulated by a master computer that could access the hard disk

Hard disk

A hard disk drive is a non-volatile, random access digital magnetic data storage device. It features rotating rigid platters on a motor-driven spindle within a protective enclosure. Data is magnetically read from and written to the platter by read/write heads that float on a film of air above the...

 of the new PC to paste the install program. It could also be used to update software and monitor system status remotely. Intel developed the system in the 1990s; it is now considered obsolete.

WfM included the Preboot Execution Environment

Preboot Execution Environment

The Preboot eXecution Environment is an environment to boot computers using a network interface independently of data storage devices or installed operating systems.PXE was introduced as part of the Wired for Management framework by Intel and is described in the specification The Preboot...

 (PXE) and Wake-on-LAN

Wake-on-LAN

Wake-on-LAN is an Ethernet computer networking standard that allows a computer to be turned on or woken up by a network message....

 (WOL) standards.

WfM has been replaced by the Intelligent Platform Management Interface

Intelligent Platform Management Interface

The Intelligent Platform Management Interface is a standardizedcomputer system interface used by system administrators to manage a computer system and monitor its operation....

standard.