112 Securing Your Computer
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:
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
Chassis
Intrusion –
Physical
Security
Violation/Chass
is Intrusion –
Physical
Security
Violation Event
Cleared
The docking device has been opened and the PCI slot
has been compromised.
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.
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