HP Implementing Out-Of-Band PC Management Technical Manual

Technical white paper

Implementing Out-Of-Band PC Management with DASH on HP Business Systems with AMD Chipset

Commercial Managed IT

Table of Contents

Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................................... 2

HP’s Vision of Remote Management & DASH ................................................................................................................... 2

Key Features of DASH .......................................................................................................................................................... 2

Management Profiles .......................................................................................................................................................... 3

System requirements and prerequisites ............................................................................................................................... 3

Minimum versions of driver and firmware required ........................................................................................................ 3

Realtek NIC: ....................................................................................................................................................................... 3

Broadcom NIC: .................................................................................................................................................................. 3

Supported platforms ........................................................................................................................................................... 4

Notebooks: ........................................................................................................................................................................ 4

Desktops: ........................................................................................................................................................................... 4

Supported profiles on HP Desktop and Notebook .......................................................................................................... 4

Using DASH functions on HP Desktop and Notebook ......................................................................................................... 6

Dash Support ........................................................................................................................................................................ 6

Unit provisioning using Realtek ROM options settings from BIOS: ............................................................................ 6

HP Client Management Web View ...................................................................................................................................... 7

For more information .............................................................................................................................................................. 9

https://www.dmtf.org/standards/dash ........................................................................................................................ 9

Introduction

This white paper provides instructions for enabling the DMTF DASH on supported HP Business Systems with AMD Chipset and Realtek NIC. This paper also talks about different plugins and tools available to take advantage of DASH.

Target audience: This white paper is intended for IT staff.

DMTF standard - Desktop and mobile Architecture for System Hardware (DASH) defines a set of interoperability standards for managing, monitoring and controlling PCs regardless of system power state (on, off, stand-by) or operating system capability. DASH uses standards-based management technologies for remote management and monitoring of Desktop and Notebook class systems that were previously unattainable. This paper describes the DASH capabilities available on the HP Notebook systems with AMD Chipset and Realtek Ethernet.

HP’s Vision of Remote Management & DASH

DASH is an industry standard that allows system and network administrators to perform essential management tasks on HP’s business class Desktop, Notebook and Workstations, regardless of their power state or operating system state. DASH enabled systems achieves smarter, efficient control of your business. HP has shipped millions of DASH enabled business class desktops and workstations to our customers. HP Notebooks today are certified for DASH 1.0 specification but have implemented most of DASH 1.1 profiles too.

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For more information go to the DMTF Learning Center at: http://www.dmtf.org/education/

The DASH standards are designed to assist in the remote management of common desktop infrastructure tasks, such as deploying new operating systems, monitoring of computer system health, power control and power state monitoring, and asset inventory collection. As new hardware technologies are introduced, or additional requirements are placed on the IT infrastructure, DASH will continue to evolve to include new functionality.

DASH has been designed to solve many of the pitfalls and constraints of previous management standards by leveraging well-proven technologies from the Service Oriented Architecture domain, advancements in security standards, and extensive modeling of management components, configuration data and relationships first introduced in the server management domain.

DASH is a web services-based management protocol and relies on security and network routing concepts familiar to web site and web services administrators.

Key Features of DASH

• Service availability without the requirement of an installed operating system and/or system power states

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Interoperability between various DASH-capable device implementations and management consoles

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Descriptive data model allowing for the discovery of iterative specification

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Updates (new profiles) or vendor-specific extensions (custom profiles)

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Well understood transport level security (HTTPS basic and digest authentication models with optional TLS client/server certificate support)

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Secured setup with support for multiple DASH users and multiple access roles (administrator, operator, auditor)

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DASH ecosystem can coexist with legacy Alert Standard Format (ASF) infrastructure

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Monitor and inventory the HW of the managed clients.

Management Profiles

A management profile is a specification that defines a normative set of behaviors and characteristics for addressing a specific management domain.

A profile consists of the following information:

• A data model representing the problem domain that consists of objects, properties and methods exposed by the profile

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Use cases to be addressed by the profile

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Steps required to traverse the data model and derive results

When a substantive block of new profiles become available, or fundamental changes are introduced to the DASH ecosystem, the DASH Implementation Requirements document is updated to reflect a new version of the standard. Profiles are continually being developed by the DMTF and DASH is designed to support them as they become available.

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DASH profile specification source material can be found at: http://www.dmtf.org/standards/profiles/

System requirements and prerequisites

For HP DASH supported platforms, you must have latest System BIOS, Realtek LAN network firmware and associated Realtek network driver and agent on your platforms.

Minimum versions of driver and firmware required

Realtek NIC:

Table 1. Minimum versions of driver and firmware of Realtek NIC required

NIC DASH FW System BIOS NIC Driver Win 10

1.3.171371432 Shipping 10.23.1003.2017

Broadcom NIC:

Table 2. Minimum versions of driver and firmware of Broadcom NIC required

NIC DASH FW System BIOS NIC Driver Win 10

3.03.0.2 Shipping 16.6.4.1

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