Alert Standard Format (ASF) Specification

Alert Standard Format (ASF) Specification v2.0 DMTF Document DSP0136
DSP0136 23 April 2003 Page 51 of 94
Offset Name Length Value Description
00h
Minimum
Watchdog
Reset Value
BYTE Varies
Identifies the minimum value (in the range 1 to 256)
to which an alert-sending device’s watchdog timer
should be set at power-on reset, in seconds. This
value also reflects the maximum amount of time the
system firmware requires to reset the initial system
boot-failure watchdog timer.
01h
Minimum ASF
Sensor Inter-
poll Wait Time
BYTE Varies
Identifies the minimum time, in 5 millisecond units,
that an alert sending device should wait between
the end of one ASF Sensor Poll Alert Message to
the start of the next. The value ranges from 2 to
255. See below for more information.
02h System ID WORD Varies
Contains the manufacturer-assigned ID for this
system type.
Each Platform Event Trap issued by a managed
client’s alert-sending device(s) will contain this value
in its System ID field.
04h
IANA
Manufacturer
ID
4 BYTEs Varies
Contains the Private Enterprise Number assigned to
the system manufacturer by the Internet Assigned
Numbers Authority (IANA). Refer to the Enterprise
Numbers section found at
http://www.iana.org/numbers.html#E
for current
assignments.
Each Platform Event Trap issued by a managed
client’s alert-sending device(s) will contain this value
in its Manufacturer ID field.
Note: The value is specified in network byte order
(MSB first) within the field.
08h Feature Flags BYTE Varies
Identifies platform support for various, optional
features:
Bit(s)
Meaning
7:1 Reserved for future definition by this
specification; set to all 0's.
0 Set to 1b to indicate that the platform
supports ASF SMBus protocols to add-in
alert-sending devices. The configuration
software associated with an alert-sending
device must be able to differentiate add-in
from onboard implementations using that
device, and only configures an add-in
device's ASF capabilities on supporting
platforms.
09h Reserved 3 BYTEs
00h,
00h,
00h
Reserved for future definition by this specification,
set to all zeros.
The following is a ‘C’-style definition of the ASF_INFO structure.
struct ASF_INFO {
BYTE MinWatchdogResetValue;
BYTE MinPollingInterval;
WORD SystemID;
BYTE IANAManufacturerID[4];
BYTE Reserved[4];
};
Minimum ASF Sensor Inter-poll Wait Time
The system firmware specifies the minimum inter-poll wait time to achieve two goals: