Plug And Play; Power Management; Desktop Management Interface - NEC POWERMATE VE - SERVICE MANUAL 08-1996 Service Manual

Technical Information 1-17

PLUG AND PLAY

The system comes with a Plug and Play BIOS which supports Plug and Play technology.
Plug and Play eliminates complicated setup procedures for installing Plug and Play
expansion boards. With Plug and Play, adding a Plug and Play expansion board is done by
turning off the system, installing the board, and turning on the system. There are no jumpers
to set and no system resource conflicts to resolve. Plug and Play automatically configures
the board.

POWER MANAGEMENT

Each system is Energy Star compliant and comes with the power-saving features enabled. If
the keyboard, mouse, or drives are not used after 15 minutes, the screen goes blank and the
system goes into a partial power shutdown. A blinking power lamp indicates that the system
is in the power-saving mode. As soon as activity is detected, the system resumes where it
left off.
The system can be manually put into a Suspend power-saving mode by pressing the suspend
button. The Suspend mode provides the greatest power savings by putting the system in
maximum power shutdown. When the system goes into Suspend mode, it saves data and
system status and then shuts off power to all possible components. A blinking power lamp
indicates that the system is in the power-saving mode. As soon as activity is detected, the
system resumes where it left off.
The amount of inactive time is adjustable. Power management can also be disabled. Both
can be set through Setup.

DESKTOP MANAGEMENT INTERFACE

The Desktop Management Interface (DMI) is the standard interface used to manage system
components on the computer. DMI acts as a layer of abstraction between management
applications and managed components such as systems, network cards, and printers.
With DMI, a management application (such as Hewlett Packards Openview), provides a
simplified method to collect information from different vendors computers operating on the
network.
DMI is not a protocol but an interface that complements network protocols like the Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMP).