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Home screen, Setup menu – Dell PowerEdge T610 User Manual

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About Your System

Home Screen

The Home screen displays user-configurable information about the system.
This screen is displayed during normal system operation when there are no
status messages or errors present. When the system is in standby mode, the
LCD backlight will turn off after five minutes of inactivity if there are no error
messages. Press one of the three navigation buttons (Select, Left, or Right) to
view the Home screen.

To navigate to the Home screen from another menu, continue to select the
up arrow until the Home icon

is displayed, and then select the Home

icon.

From the Home screen, press the Select button to enter the main menu. See
the following tables for information on the Setup and View submenus.

Setup Menu

NOTE:

When selecting an option in the Setup menu, you are asked to confirm the

option before you may continue.

Option

Description

DRAC

Select DHCP or Static IP to configure the network
mode. If Static IP is selected, the available fields are IP,
Subnet (Sub), and Gateway (Gtw). Select Setup DNS
to enable DNS and to view domain addresses. Two
separate DNS entries are available.

Set error

Select SEL to display LCD error messages in a format
that matches the IPMI description in the SEL log. This
can be useful when trying to match an LCD message
with an SEL entry.

Select Simple to display LCD error messages in a
simplified user-friendly description. See "LCD Status
Messages" for a list of messages in this format.

Set home

Select the default information to be displayed on the
LCD Home screen. See "View Menu" to see the options
and option items that can be selected to display by
default on the Home screen.

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