The Platform Management Specification describes an open, secure, portable, efficient and extensible infrastructure for management of physical systems. The key properties of Platform Management Specification are as follows: It provides a top-level object model needed for the representation of physical platforms or systems and the discovery of physical computer systems; It specifies services for the manipulation of physical computer systems and their components, including operations for the boot control, software update, power control, power utilization management, text console, etc.