HP (Hewlett-Packard) HP OmniBook 900 Laptop User Manual


 
HP OmniBook 900 Troubleshooting and Diagnostics 3-23
manufacturers, including Hewlett-Packard, to define a standard method of managing the physical and
logical components of personal computers.
Hewlett-Packard has developed a number of extensions to DMI to allow the enhanced features of HP
OmniBook computer to be managed with DMI, including features such as passwords and tattooing
(identifying a computer using a unique string of characters).
For full details of the structure of the MIF file, including an explanation of the meaning of the fields of
groups and attributes and how to write an application program that accesses this information, you can
access the DMTF FTP server ftp.dmtf.org or the DMTF web pages at the http://www.dmtf.org.
Contents of the DMI Package
The DMI software and associated documentation is supplied preinstalled on the OmniBook’s hard
disk drive.
Since the information accessed by the DMI software is specific to a particular computer, it must be
installed on each computer separately. The DMI package included with the OmniBook can be used
only with the OmniBook.
The following software is supplied with the DMI package:
A Microsoft Windows utility, SETUP.EXE, to install and initialize the DMI software.
A Windows utility, HP TopTools. After DMI is installed, this utility can be used to display
information about the computer through the DMI.
Windows-compatible DMI Service Layer software.