Implementing Out-Of-Band PC Management with DASH on HP Business Systems with AMD Chipset

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Introduction
This white paper provides instructions for enabling the DMTF DASH on supported HP Business Systems with AMD Chipset
and Realtek NIC. This paper also talks about different plugins and tools available to take advantage of DASH.
Target audience: This white paper is intended for IT staff.
DMTF standard - Desktop and mobile Architecture for System Hardware (DASH) defines a set of interoperability standards
for managing, monitoring and controlling PCs regardless of system power state (on, off, stand-by) or operating system
capability. DASH uses standards-based management technologies for remote management and monitoring of Desktop and
Notebook class systems that were previously unattainable. This paper describes the DASH capabilities available on the HP
Notebook systems with AMD Chipset and Realtek Ethernet.
HP’s Vision of Remote Management & DASH
DASH is an industry standard that allows system and network administrators to perform essential management tasks on
HP’s business class Desktop, Notebook and Workstations, regardless of their power state or operating system state. DASH
enabled systems achieves smarter, efficient control of your business. HP has shipped millions of DASH enabled business
class desktops and workstations to our customers. HP Notebooks today are certified for DASH 1.0 specification but have
implemented most of DASH 1.1 profiles too.
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For more information go to the DMTF Learning Center at: http://www.dmtf.org/education/
The DASH standards are designed to assist in the remote management of common desktop infrastructure tasks, such as
deploying new operating systems, monitoring of computer system health, power control and power state monitoring, and
asset inventory collection. As new hardware technologies are introduced, or additional requirements are placed on the IT
infrastructure, DASH will continue to evolve to include new functionality.
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.
DASH is a web services-based management protocol and relies on security and network routing concepts familiar to web
site and web services administrators.
Key Features of DASH
• Service availability without the requirement of an installed operating system and/or system power states
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Interoperability between various DASH-capable device implementations and management consoles
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Descriptive data model allowing for the discovery of iterative specification
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Updates (new profiles) or vendor-specific extensions (custom profiles)
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Well understood transport level security (HTTPS basic and digest authentication models with optional TLS client/server
certificate support)
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Secured setup with support for multiple DASH users and multiple access roles (administrator, operator, auditor)
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DASH ecosystem can coexist with legacy Alert Standard Format (ASF) infrastructure
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Monitor and inventory the HW of the managed clients.