The following software is supplied with the DMI package:

∙A Microsoft Windows utility, SETUP.EXE, to install and initialize the DMI software.

∙A Windows utility, HP TopTools. After DMI is installed, this utility can be used to display information about the computer through the DMI.

∙A Management Information Format (MIF) file. This file contains information about everything on the computer that can be controlled using DMI facilities, and is initialized during installation.

∙A component code, identifying the version of MIF file to use for specific models of HP OmniBook Notebook PCs.

∙Windows-compatible DMTF Service Layer software, which controls access to the DMI.

∙A client agent. The HP Remote DMI Agent is a DMI application and also a network server-side stream-based application. The Remote Agent is listening for Remote Application connection requests. If the main window of the Remote Agent is hidden, then no icon will appear on the screen when it is running.

Figure 11 provides a visual representation of the many components of the DMI package.

 

Management Applications

 

Support

 

Desktop

LAN

Installation

Management

management

management

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application

 

console

 

application

application

program

 

 

 

Management Interface (MI)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Service Layer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Component Interface (CI)

 

 

 

MIF

 

 

 

 

 

 

Database

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Printer

 

 

 

 

Modem

 

 

 

Hard disk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spreadsheet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Word

 

 

 

CD-ROM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

processor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Manageable Products

 

 

 

 

Figure 11 - DMI Components

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