LegacySelect technology control offers legacy-full, legacy-reduced, or legacy-free solutions based on common platforms, hard-drive images, and help desk

procedures. Control is provided to the administrator through system setup, Dell OpenManage™ IT Assistant, or Dell™ custom factory integration.

LegacySelect allows administrators to electronically activate or deactivate connectors and media devices that include serial and USB connectors, a parallel

connector, a floppy drive, PCI slots, and a PS/2 mouse. Connectors and media devices that are deactivated make resources available. You must restart the

computer to effect the changes.

Manageability

Alert Standard Format

ASF is a DMTF management standard that specifies "pre-operating system" or "operating system-absent" alerting techniques. The standard is designed to

generate an alert on potential security and fault conditions when the operating system is in a sleep state or the system is powered down. ASF is designed to

supersede previous operating system-absent alerting technologies.

Your computer supports the following ASF version 1.03 alerts and remote capabilities:

Alert

Chassis: Chassis Intrusion – Physical Security Violation/Chassis

Intrusion – Physical Security Violation Event Cleared

CPU: Emergency Shutdown Event

Cooling Device: Generic Critical Fan Failure/Generic Critical Fan

Failure Cleared

Temperature: Generic Critical Temperature Problem/Generic Critical

Temperature Problem Cleared

Battery Low

For more information about Dell's ASF implementation, see the ASF User's Guide and the ASF Administrator's Guide, which are available on the Dell Support

website at support.dell.com.

Dell OpenManage IT Assistant

IT Assistant configures, manages, and monitors computers and other devices on a corporate network. IT Assistant manages assets, configurations, events

(alerts), and security for computers equipped with industry-standard management software. It supports instrumentation that conforms to SNMP, DMI, and CIM

industry standards.

Dell OpenManage Client instrumentation, which is based on DMI and CIM, is available for your computer. For information on IT Assistant, see the Dell

OpenManage IT Assistant User's Guide available on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com.

Dell OpenManage Client Instrumentation

Dell OpenManage Client Instrumentation is software that enables remote management programs such as IT Assistant to do the following:

Access information about your computer, such as how many processors it has and what operating system it is running

Monitor the status of your computer, such as listening for thermal alerts from temperature probes or hard-drive failure alerts from storage devices

Change the state of your computer, such as updating its BIOS or shutting it down remotely

A managed system is one that has Dell OpenManage Client Instrumentation set up on a network that uses IT Assistant. For information about Dell

OpenManage Client Instrumentation, see the Dell OpenManage Client Instrumentation User's Guide available on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com.

Booting to a USB Device

Clearing Forgotten Passwords

Clearing CMOS Settings

Hyper-Threading

Power Management

Description

The computer chassis with the chassis intrusion feature installed and enabled

has been opened or the chassis intrusion alert has been cleared.

The processor temperature is too hot and the power supply has shut down.

The fan speed (rpm) is out of limits or the fan speed (rpm) problem has been

resolved.

The computer temperature is out of limits or the computer temperature