A New Management Standard; Key Features; Management Profiles - Compaq 6005 - Pro Microtower PC Using Manual

A New Management Standard

Development of the DASH specifications is based on a history of preceding
technologies and specifications. DASH has been designed to solve many of the
pitfalls and constraints of previous management standards by leveraging well-
proven technologies from the Service Oriented Architecture domain, advancements
in security standards, and extensive modeling of management components,
configuration data and relationships first introduced in the server management
domain.
Alert Standard Format (ASF) was the previous industry-wide remote management
standard. Unlike ASF, DASH is a web services-based management protocol and
relies on security and network routing concepts familiar to web site and web
services administrators. DASH consists of a richer set of features than ASF, with a
broader set of vendor support than ASF had at launch time. DASH supports feature
extensions (described as management profiles) in a standard manner which ensures
multiple versions of the DASH standard can be deployed within an enterprise
environment with support from a single console infrastructure.

Key Features

Service availability without the requirement of an installed operating system
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 Interoperability between various DASH-capable device implementations and
management consoles
Descriptive data model allowing for the discovery of iterative specification
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updates (new profiles) or vendor-specific extensions (custom profiles)
Well understood transport level security (HTTPS basic and digest authentication
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models with optional TLS client/server certificate support)
Support for multiple users and multiple access roles (administrator, operator,
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auditor)
DASH ecosystem can coexist with legacy ASF infrastructure
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Management Profiles

A management profile is a specification that defines a normative set of behaviors
and characteristics for addressing a particular management domain.
A profile consists of the following information:
A data model representing the problem domain that consists of objects,
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properties and methods exposed by the profile
Use cases to be addressed by the profile
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Steps required to traverse the data model and derive results
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Required and optional components of the profile
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DASH profile and specification requirements
Functionality
Base Desktop and Mobile Profile 1.0.0
WS-Management Specification 1.0.0
DASH 1.0 DASH 1.1
Required Required
Required Required