Advanced features, Legacyselect technology control, Manageability – Dell OptiPlex GX520 User Manual

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Advanced Features

Dell™ OptiPlex™ GX520 User's Guide

  

LegacySelect Technology Control

  

Manageability

  

Security

  

Password Protection

  

System Setup

  

Booting to a USB Device

  

Clearing Forgotten Passwords

  

Clearing CMOS Settings

  

Hyper-Threading

  

Power Management

 

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:

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:

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

 

Alert

 

Description

Chassis: Chassis Intrusion – Physical Security Violation/Chassis

Intrusion – Physical Security Violation Event Cleared

The computer chassis with the chassis intrusion feature installed and enabled
has been opened or the chassis intrusion alert has been cleared.

CPU: Emergency Shutdown Event

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

Cooling Device: Generic Critical Fan Failure/Generic Critical Fan

Failure Cleared

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

Temperature: Generic Critical Temperature Problem/Generic Critical

Temperature Problem Cleared

The computer temperature is out of limits or the computer temperature
problem has been resolved.

Battery Low

The system battery has reached a voltage of 2.2 V or lower.

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