Advanced Features; Legacyselect Technology Control; Alert Standard Format; Dell Openmanage It Assistant - Dell Precision 350 User Manual

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Advanced Features

Dell Precision™ Workstation 350 User's Guide
LegacySelect Technology Control
Manageability
Security
Password Protection
System Setup

LegacySelect Technology Control

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, and a PS/2 mouse. Connectors and media devices that are deactivated make resources available. You must restart the computer for
the changes to take effect.
Manageability

Alert Standard Format

ASF is a DMTF management standard that specifies "pre-operating system" or "operating system-absent" alerting techniques. It is designed to generate an
alert on potential security and fault conditions when the operating system is in a sleep state or the computer is powered down. ASF is designed to supersede
previous operating system-absent alerting technologies.
Your computer supports the following ASF alerts and remote capabilities:
Alert
Chassis Intrusion/Chassis
Intrusion Cleared
Corrupt BIOS
Failure to Boot to BIOS
System Password Failure
Entity Presence
Temperature - Too
Low/Low/High/Too High/Fault -
Non Critical/Fault - Critical
Voltage - Too Low/Too
High/Fault
Cooling Device - Speed
Low/Speed Too
Low/Malfunction/Status Change
Ethernet Connectivity Enabled/
Ethernet Connectivity Disabled
For more information about Dell's ASF implementation, see the ASF User's Guide and the ASF Administrator's Guide, 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:
Jumper Settings
Power Button
Connecting an IEEE 1394 Device
TAPI
Hyper-Threading
Description
The computer has been
opened/The chassis
intrusion alert has been
cleared.
The BIOS is corrupted.
The BIOS did not complete
loading upon initiation.
The system password is
invalid (after 3 failed
attempts).
Periodic Heartbeats
transmitted to verify
computer presence.
The computer
temperature out of limits.
The computer voltage out
of limits.
The computer fan
speed/rpm out of limits.
The Ethernet Connectivity
Enabled/Ethernet
Connectivity Disabled.