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- DMI (Desktop Management Interface)
-
- Overview
- ========
- This document includes:
- - Installing DMI Support for your TokenExpress(TM) PRO adapter
- - What DMI is
- - How DMI works
- - What DMI needs
-
- _________________________________________________________________
- | |
- | NOTE: You need a DMI Service Layer installed on your computer. |
- | Intel has provided a combined DOS and Windows Service Layer on |
- | its BBS. The file name is DMI_INST.EXE. |
- |_________________________________________________________________|
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- How to get DMI working with your TokenExpress PRO adapter
- =========================================================
-
- Assuming you have the DMI Service Layer installed on your computer,
- here's what you do:
-
- 1. Copy the file TPRODMI.MIF to the C:\DMI\DOS\MIFS directory.
-
- 2. Copy the file TPRODMI.OVL to the C:\DMI\DOS\BIN directory.
-
- 3. Restart the Service Layer. Make sure you add the "o=11"
- parameter. For example, type:
-
- C:\DMI\DOS\BIN\SL o=11
-
- This installs DMI support for your adapter and in turn, allows your
- adapter to be managed through the Desktop Management Interface.
-
- Note: Your adapter's network drivers must be loaded in order for
- management applications to manage your adapter.
-
-
- What DMI is
- ===========
-
- The Desktop Management Interface (DMI) is an emerging computer
- industry standard for managing computer components, such as your
- TokenExpress PRO adapter.
-
- Any desktop component -- your hard disk, operating system, software
- application, adapter -- designed to be DMI-compliant can dynamically
- communicate with management applications via the DMI.
-
-
- |```````````````| {`````} |```````````````````|
- | DMI-compliant | <====> { DMI } <====> | DMI-compliant |
- | Component | { } | Mgmt. Application |
- | | ````` | |
- ``````````````` ```````````````````
-
- In effect, the DMI is the middleman between DMI-compliant components
- and DMI-compliant management applications.
-
-
- How DMI works
- ============
-
- At a fundamental level, DMI performs two functions: it stores
- information about components, and it provides the ability to
- query and change that information.
-
- Information about how a desktop component can be managed
- is stored in a Management Information Format (MIF) file. Each
- DMI-compliant component has its own MIF file that includes
- information like location of the component, vendor name, and
- installation date. When you install DMI support for a DMI-
- compliant component, an entry is made into the MIF Database
- by the Service Layer.
-
- The DMI Service Layer is software installed on desktop computers
- that use DMI. The Service Layer can be part of the computer's
- operating system, or it can be an add-on. For DOS, the Service
- Layer is an add-on loaded by a command in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file,
- just like network adapter drivers or disk-caching software.
-
- DMI-compliant management applications use the Service Layer to
- interact with a desktop component by querying for information
- ("What's the name of the component manufacturer?"), requesting
- a change ("Change your I/O address to 310."), or accepting a
- message ("I'm out of paper.").
-
-
- What DMI needs
- ==============
-
- To use DMI, you need three things:
-
- - DMI Service Layer
- - DMI-compliant components and support software
- - DMI-compliant management application.
-
- DMI Service Layer
- -----------------
- The DMI Service Layer can be part of your operating system or
- an add-on. Currently, service layers that work with DOS, OS/2*
- and Windows* 3.1 have been developed by the Desktop Management
- Task Force (DMTF).
-
- Intel has plans to provide a combined DOS and Windows Service
- Layer on its BBS. Keep checking the BBS for updates.
-
- DMI-compliant components
- ------------------------
- Your TokenExpress PRO adapter is a DMI-compliant component.
- Once you install your adapter, you still need to install the
- DMI support files, TPRODMI.MIF and TPRODMI.OVL. See the start
- of this document for more details.
-
- DMI-compliant management applications
- -------------------------------------
- Management applications are available from a variety of sources.
- For example, Intel's LANDesk(TM) Manager 2.0 is a DMI-compliant
- management application. For more information about LANDesk
- Manager, get FaxBack #0128.
-
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