HP Book 900 manual Contents of the DMI Package

manufacturers, including Hewlett-Packard, to define a standard method of managing the physical and logical components of personal computers.

Hewlett-Packard has developed a number of extensions to DMI to allow the enhanced features of HP OmniBook computer to be managed with DMI, including features such as passwords and tattooing (identifying a computer using a unique string of characters).

For full details of the structure of the MIF file, including an explanation of the meaning of the fields of groups and attributes and how to write an application program that accesses this information, you can access the DMTF FTP server ftp.dmtf.org or the DMTF web pages at the http://www.dmtf.org.

Contents of the DMI Package

The DMI software and associated documentation is supplied preinstalled on the OmniBook’s hard disk drive.

Since the information accessed by the DMI software is specific to a particular computer, it must be installed on each computer separately. The DMI package included with the OmniBook can be used only with the OmniBook.

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.

∙Windows-compatible DMI Service Layer software.

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