Table 1. Front panel features and indicators — eight 3.5-inch hot swappable hard drive chassis
Item
Indicator, button, or
connector
1
Power-on indicator, power
button
2
NMI button
3
System identification button
4
LCD menu buttons
5
Information tag
6
LCD panel
7
USB management port/iDRAC
Direct port
8
USB connector
9
Optical drive or tape drives
10
Hard drives
12
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Description
Enables you to know the power status of the system. The
power-on indicator glows when the system power is on. The
power button controls the power supply output to the system.
NOTE: On ACPI-compliant operating systems, turning
off the system using the power button causes the
system to perform a graceful shutdown before power to
the system is turned off.
Enables you to troubleshoot software and device driver errors
when running certain operating systems. This button can be
pressed using the end of a paper clip.
Use this button only if directed to do so by qualified support
personnel or by the operating system documentation.
Enables you to locate a particular system within a rack. The
identification buttons are located on the front and back panels.
When one of these buttons is pressed, the LCD panel on the
front and the system status indicator on the back flash until one
of the buttons is pressed again.
Press the system identification button to turn the system ID on
or off.
If the system stops responding during POST, press and hold the
system ID button for more than five seconds to enter BIOS
progress mode.
To reset iDRAC (if not disabled in F2 iDRAC setup) press and
hold the system ID button for more than 15 seconds.
Enable you to navigate the control panel LCD menu.
Contains system information such as service tag, NIC, MAC
address, and so on for your reference. The information tag is a
slide-out label panel.
Displays system ID, status information, and system error
messages. See
Functions as a regular USB port or provides access to the
iDRAC Direct features. For more information, see the iDRAC
Guide at Dell.com/idracmanuals.
This port is USB 2.0-compliant
Enables you to connect USB devices to the system. This port is
USB 3.0-compliant.
Enables you to install an optical drive or tape drives. For more
information about supported optical drives and tape drives, see
Optical drives and tape drives
Enables you to install up to eight 3.5-inch (2.5-inch with
adapter) hot swappable hard drives/SSDs.
LCD
panel.
(optional).
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