Advanced Features; Legacyselect Technology Control; Alert Standard Format - Dell Precision Workstation 370 User's & Service Manual

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Advanced Features

Dell Precision™ Workstation 370 User's Guide

LegacySelect Technology Control

Manageability
Security
Password Protection
System Setup
Clearing Forgotten Passwords
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 state or the system is powered down. ASF is designed to supersede previous operating system-absent alerting
technologies.
Your computer supports the following ASF alerts:
Alert
BIOS: Corrupt BIOS/Corrupt BIOS Cleared
Boot: Failure to Boot to BIOS
Password: System Password Violation
CPU: CPU DOA Alert/CPU DOA Alert Cleared
Heartbeats: Entity Presence
Temperature: Generic Critical Temperature
Problem/Generic Critical Temperature Problem
Cleared
Clearing CMOS Settings
Power Management
Hyper-Threading
IEEE 1394
U320 SCSI Controller
About RAID Configurations
Description
The BIOS has been corrupted or the BIOS corruption has been
resolved.
The BIOS did not complete loading upon initiation.
The system password is invalid (alert occurs after three failed
attempts).
The microprocessor is not functioning.
Periodic heartbeats have been transmitted to verify system
presence.
The computer temperature is out of limits or the computer
temperature problem has been resolved.