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Advanced Features
Dell™ OptiPlex™ GX270 Systems User's Guide
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, PCI slots, a floppy drive, 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 version 1.0 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:
l Access information about your computer, such as how many processors it has and what operating system it is running
l Monitor the status of your computer, such as listening for thermal alerts from temperature probes or hard-drive failure alerts from storage devices
l Change the state of your computer, such as updating its BIOS or shutting it down remotely
A managed system has Dell OpenManage Client Instrumentation set up on a network that uses IT Assistant. For information about Dell OpenManage Client
Instrumentation, see the Dell OpenManage Client Instrumentation User's Guide, which is available on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com.
LegacySelect Technology Control
Manageability
Security
Password Protection
System Setup
Booting to a USB Device
Jumper Settings
Power Button
Hyper-Threading
Power Management
Alert Description
Chassis: Chassis Intrusion – Physical Security Violation/Chassis Intrusion –
Physical Security Violation Event Cleared
The computer chassis has been opened or the chassis
intrusion alert has been cleared.
BIOS: Corrupt BIOS/Corrupt BIOS Cleared The BIOS has been corrupted or the BIOS corruption has been
resolved.
Boot: Failure to Boot to BIOS The BIOS did not complete loading upon initiation.
Password: System Password Violation The system password is invalid (alert occurs after three failed
attempts).
CPU: CPU DOA Alert/CPU DOA Alert Cleared The microprocessor is not functioning.
Heartbeats: Entity Presence Periodic heartbeats have been transmitted to verify system
presence.
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.
Connectivity: Ethernet Connectivity Enabled/
Ethernet Connectivity Disabled
The ethernet connectivity is enabled or the ethernet
connectivity is disabled.