Alert Standard Format (ASF) Specification

Alert Standard Format (ASF) Specification v2.0 DMTF Document DSP0136
DSP0136 23 April 2003 Page 3 of 94
• [SMBIOS] System Management BIOS Reference Specification, v2.3.1, 14 December 2000 ,
DMTF Document DSP0119, http://www.dmtf.org/standards/bios.php.
• [SMBUS_2.0] System Management Bus (SMBus) Specification, v2.0, 03 August 2000,
http://www.smbus.org/specs/index.html
• [RFC2404] The Use of HMAC-SHA-1-96 within ESP and AH,
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2404.txt
.
• [RFC_UDP] User Datagram Protocol, RFC 768, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0768.txt
1.3 Data Format
All numbers specified in this document are in decimal format unless otherwise indicated. A
number preceded by ‘0x’ or followed by the letter ‘h’ indicates hexadecimal format, and a number
followed by the letter ‘b’ indicates binary format. For example, the numbers 10, 0x0A, 0Ah, and
1010b are equivalent.
One exception is section 5. The values associated with the Wr, Command, Byte Count, Sub-
command, Version Number, A, and ~A fields are each specified in binary format with no trailing
letter ‘b’.
1.4 Terminology
Term Description
ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface.
AoL Alert on LAN™
Alert-
sending
device
This term, used throughout this document, refers to a communications device that is
capable of sending ASF-defined alerts.
ASL ACPI Source Language
ASF IANA
Within this document, refers to the IANA-assigned Enterprise Number for ASF: 4542
(decimal) or 11BEh.
CIM Common Information Model
DMTF Distributed Management Task Force, http://www.dmtf.org
DMI Desktop Management Interface
GUID Globally Unique Identifier, synonymous with UUID (Universally Unique Identifier).
HMAC Hash Message Authentication Code
IANA
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, http://www.iana.org
. This is the entity that assigns
Enterprise Numbers; see http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/enterprise-numbers
for the current number assignments.
IHV Independent Hardware Vendor
IP Internet Protocol
IPMI
Intelligent Platform Management Interface. See
http://developer.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/spec.htm
.
ISV Independent Software Vendor
NIC Network Interface Card
NBO
Network Byte Order. Refers to the order in which the bytes of a multi-byte number are
transmitted on a network — most significant byte first. This might be different than the
order in which the number is stored in memory, depending on the processor architecture.
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
OS Operating System.
OS-absent Refers to a system’s pre-boot, low-power, and OS-hung environments.