ASF Specification v2.0 DSP0136 - DMTF

Alert Standard Format (ASF) Specification v2.0
DMTF Document DSP0136
• [SMBIOS] System Management BIOS Reference Specification, v2.3.1, 14 December 2000 ,
DMTF Document DSP0119, http://www.dmtf.org/standards/bios.php.
• [SMBUS_2.0] System Management Bus (SMBus) Specification, v2.0, 03 August 2000,
http://www.smbus.org/specs/index.html
• [RFC2404] The Use of HMAC-SHA-1-96 within ESP and AH,
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2404.txt.
• [RFC_UDP] User Datagram Protocol, RFC 768, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0768.txt
1.3 Data Format
All numbers specified in this document are in decimal format unless otherwise indicated. A
number preceded by ‘0x’ or followed by the letter ‘h’ indicates hexadecimal format, and a number
followed by the letter ‘b’ indicates binary format. For example, the numbers 10, 0x0A, 0Ah, and
1010b are equivalent.
One exception is section 5. The values associated with the Wr, Command, Byte Count, Subcommand,
Version Number, A, and ~A fields are each specified in binary format with no trailing
letter ‘b’.
1.4 Terminology
Term
Description
ACPI
AoL
Alertsending
device
ASL
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface.
Alert on LAN
This term, used throughout this document, refers to a communications device that is
capable of sending ASF-defined alerts.
ACPI Source Language
ASF IANA Within this document, refers to the IANA-assigned Enterprise Number for ASF: 4542
(decimal) or 11BEh.
CIM Common Information Model
DMTF Distributed Management Task Force, http://www.dmtf.org
DMI
GUID
HMAC
IANA
IHV
IP
IPMI
ISV
NIC
NBO
OEM
OS
OS-absent
Desktop Management Interface
Globally Unique Identifier, synonymous with UUID (Universally Unique Identifier).
Hash Message Authentication Code
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, http://www.iana.org. This is the entity that assigns
Enterprise Numbers; see http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/enterprise-numbers
for the current number assignments.
Independent Hardware Vendor
Internet Protocol
Intelligent Platform Management Interface. See
http://developer.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/spec.htm.
Independent Software Vendor
Network Interface Card
Network Byte Order. Refers to the order in which the bytes of a multi-byte number are
transmitted on a network — most significant byte first. This might be different than the
order in which the number is stored in memory, depending on the processor architecture.
Original Equipment Manufacturer
Operating System.
Refers to a system’s pre-boot, low-power, and OS-hung environments.
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