Advanced Features; Legacyselect Technology Control - Dell Optiflex 740 User Manual

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Advanced Features
Dell™ OptiPlex™ 740 Systems
User's Guide
LegacySelect Technology Control
Manageability
Security
Password Protection
Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
System Setup
Booting to a USB Device
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, 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 mode or the system is turned off. ASF is designed to
supersede previous operating-system-absent alerting technologies.
Your computer supports the following ASF version 1.03 and 2.0 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.
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Monitor the status of your computer, such as listening for thermal alerts from temperature probes or hard-drive failure alerts from storage devices.
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Change the state of your computer, such as updating its BIOS or shutting it down remotely.
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Jumper Settings
Clearing Forgotten Passwords
Clearing CMOS Settings
HyperTransport™ and Dual-Core Technology
Power Management
About RAID Configurations
Enabling Cool 'n' Quiet™ Technology
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
problem has been resolved.
The system battery has reached a voltage of 2.2 V or lower.