If Your Computer Is Lost Or Stolen; Alert Standard Format (Asf) - Dell precision m90 User Manual

If Your Computer Is Lost or Stolen
Call a law enforcement agency to report the lost or stolen computer. Include the Service Tag in your description of the computer. Ask that a case
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number be assigned and write down the number, along with the name, address, and phone number of the law enforcement agency. If possible, obtain
the name of the investigating officer.
NOTE: If you know where the computer was lost or stolen, call a law enforcement agency in that area. If you do not know, call a law enforcement
agency where you live.
If the computer belongs to a company, notify the security office of the company.
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Contact Dell customer service to report the missing computer. Provide the computer Service Tag, the case number, and the name, address, and phone
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number of the law enforcement agency to which you reported the missing computer. If possible, give the name of the investigating officer.
The Dell customer service representative will log your report under the computer Service Tag and record the computer as missing or stolen. If someone calls
Dell for technical assistance and gives your Service Tag, the computer is identified automatically as missing or stolen. The representative will attempt to get
the phone number and address of the caller. Dell will then contact the law enforcement agency to which you reported of the missing 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:
Alert
Chassis Intrusion – Physical Security Violation/Chassis Intrusion – Physical
Security Violation Event Cleared
Failure to Boot to BIOS
System Password Violation
Entity 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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Description
The docking device has been opened and the PCI slot has
been compromised.
The BIOS did not complete loading upon initiation.
The system password is invalid (alert occurs after three failed
attempts).
Periodic heartbeats have been transmitted to verify system
presence.