Event Log and Temperature Units

Path: Administration > General > Preferences

Color-code event log text

This option is disabled by default. Mark the Event Log Color Coding checkbox to enable color-coding of alarm text recorded in the event log. System-event entries and configuration-change entries do not change color.

Text Color

Alarm Severity

 

 

Red

Critical: A critical alarm exists, which requires immediate action.

 

 

Orange

Warning: An alarm condition requires attention and could jeopardize your data or

 

equipment if its cause is not addressed.

 

 

Green

Alarm Cleared: The conditions that caused the alarm have improved.

 

 

Black

Normal: No alarms are present. The Rack PDU and all connected devices are operating

 

normally.

 

 

Change the default temperature scale

Select the temperature scale (Fahrenheit or Celsius) in which to display all temperature measurements in this user interface.

Reset the Rack PDU

Path: Administration > General > Reset/Reboot

Action

Definition

 

 

Reboot

Restarts the interface of the Rack PDU.

Management

 

Interface

 

 

 

Reset All1

Clear the Exclude TCP/IP checkbox to reset all configuration values; mark the Exclude

 

TCP/IP checkbox to reset all values except TCP/IP.

 

 

Reset Only1

TCP/IP settings: Set TCP/IP Configuration to DHCP & BOOTP, its default setting,

 

requiring that the Rack PDU receive its TCP/IP settings from a DHCP or BOOTP server. See

 

“TCP/IP and Communication Settings” on page 59.

 

 

 

Event configuration: Reset all changes to event configuration, by event and by group, to

 

their default settings.

 

 

 

RPDU to Defaults: Resets only Rack PDU settings, not network settings, to their defaults.

 

 

1. Resetting may take up to a minute.

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