DMI (Desktop Management Interface)
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Overview
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This document includes

-  How to get DMI working with your EtherExpress(TM) 10 ISA 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 DMISL.EXE.


How to get DMI working with your EtherExpress 10 ISA adapter
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      Note: DMI support for the EtherExpress 10 ISA adapter works with
            DOS ODI and DOS NDIS 2.0 only.

Assuming you have the DMI Service Layer installed on your computer,
here's what you do:

1. Copy the file EX10DMI.MIF to the C:\DMI\DOS\MIFS directory.

2. Copy the file EX10DMI.OVL to the C:\DMI\DOS\BIN directory.

3. Restart the Service Layer. Make sure you add the "o=10" parameter. For
   example, type

C:\DMI\DOS\BIN\SL o=10

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
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The Desktop Management Interface (DMI) is an emerging computer industry
standard for managing computer components, such as your EtherExpress 10
ISA 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
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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 such as the 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
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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 provided a combined DOS and Windows Service Layer on its BBS.
The file name is DMISL.EXE.


DMI-compliant components
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Your EtherExpress 10 ISA adapter is a DMI-compliant component. Once you
install your adapter, you still need to install the DMI support files,
EX10DMI.MIF and EX10DMI.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(R) Manager 2.0 is a DMI-compliant management
application. For more information about LANDesk Manager, get FaxBack
#0128.

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