Alert Standrard 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

Description

The BIOS did not complete loading upon initiation.

Failure to Boot to BIOS

System Password Violation The system password is invalid (alert occurs after three failed attempts).

Periodic heartbeats have been transmitted to verify system presence.

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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