Dell 690 Advanced Features, LegacySelect Technology Control, Manageability, Alert Standard Format

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Advanced Features

Dell Precision™ Workstation 690 User's Guide

LegacySelect Technology Control	Power Management
Manageability	Hyper-Threading and Dual-Core Technology
Security	IEEE 1394
Password Protection	About RAID Configurations
System Setup	RAID Configuration Utility
Boot Menu	RAID Configuration and Management
Clearing Forgotten Passwords	Performing Configuration Tasks
Clearing CMOS Settings

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, 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

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 alerts:

Alert	Description
Chassis: Chassis Intrusion - Physical Security Violation/ Chassis Intrusion -	The computer chassis has been opened or the chassis
Physical Security Violation Event Cleared	intrusion alert has been cleared.
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 processor is not functioning.
Heartbeats: Entity Presence	Periodic heartbeats have been transmitted to verify system
	presence.
Temperature: Generic Critical Temperature Problem	The computer temperature is out of limits.
Voltage: Generic Critical Voltage Problem	The voltage from integrated voltage regulators is out of limits.
Power Supply: Critical Power Supply Problem	The computer power supply voltage is out of limits.
Cooling Device: Generic Critical Fan Failure	The fan speed (rpm) is out of limits.
Connectivity: Ethernet Connectivity Enabled/	The Ethernet connectivity is enabled or the Ethernet
Ethernet Connectivity Disabled	connectivity is disabled.

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.