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About Your System

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 you select an option in the

Setup menu, you must confirm the option

before proceeding to the next action.

Option

Description

BMC or DRAC

NOTE:

If an iDRAC6 Express

card is installed on the
system, the BMC option is
replaced by 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. 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" on page 25 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" on page 17 to
see the options and option items that can be selected to
display by default on the Home screen.

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