Dell Latitude X300: Alert Standard Format (ASF)

Alert Standard Format (ASF) : Dell Latitude X300

Alert Standard Format (ASF)

Alert Standrard Format (ASF) is a Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) management standard that specifies "pre-operating system" or "operating system

absent" alerting techniques. The standard is designed to generate an alert on potential security and fault conditions when the operating system is in a sleep

state or the system is turned off. ASF is designed to supersede previous operating system-absent alerting technologies.

Your computer supports the following ASF alerts and remote capabilities:

For more information about Dell's ASF implementation, see ASF for Dell Portable Computers and the ASF Administrator's Guide for Dell Portable Computers, which

are available on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com.

Alert

Description

Failure to Boot to BIOS

The BIOS did not complete loading upon initiation.

System Password Violation

The system password is invalid (alert occurs after three failed attempts).

Entity Presence

Periodic heartbeats have been transmitted to verify system presence.