Alert Standard Format (ASF)

Alert Standard 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:

Alert

Description

 

 

Chassis

The docking device has been opened and the PCI slot

Intrusion –

has been compromised.

Physical

 

Security

 

Violation/Chass

 

is Intrusion –

 

Physical

 

Security

 

Violation Event

 

Cleared

 

Failure to Boot

The BIOS did not complete loading upon initiation.

to BIOS

 

System Password

The system password is invalid (alert occurs after three

Violation

failed attempts).

Entity Presence

Periodic heartbeats have been transmitted to verify

 

system presence.

 

 

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.

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