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Advanced Features

Dell™ OptiPlex™ 740 Systems

User's Guide

LegacySelect Technology Control

Jumper Settings

Manageability

Clearing Forgotten Passwords

Security

Clearing CMOS Settings

Password Protection

HyperTransport™ and Dual-Core Technology

Trusted Platform Module (TPM)

Power Management

System Setup

About RAID Configurations

Booting to a USB Device

Enabling Cool 'n' Quiet™ Technology

 

 

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, PCI slots, 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 mode or the system is turned off. ASF is designed to supersede previous operating-system-absent alerting technologies.

Your computer supports the following ASF version 1.03 and 2.0 alerts and remote capabilities:

Alert

Description

 

 

Chassis: Chassis Intrusion – Physical Security Violation/Chassis

The computer chassis with the chassis intrusion feature installed and enabled

Intrusion – Physical Security Violation Event Cleared

has been opened or the chassis intrusion alert has been cleared.

 

 

CPU: Emergency Shutdown Event

The processor temperature is too hot and the power supply has shut down.

 

 

Cooling Device: Generic Critical Fan Failure/Generic Critical Fan

The fan speed (rpm) is out of limits or the fan speed (rpm) problem has been

Failure Cleared

resolved.

 

 

Temperature: Generic Critical Temperature Problem/Generic Critical

The computer temperature is out of limits or the computer temperature

Temperature Problem Cleared

problem has been resolved.

 

 

Battery Low

The system battery has reached a voltage of 2.2 V or lower.

 

 

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:

Access information about your computer, such as how many processors it has and what operating system it is running.

Monitor the status of your computer, such as listening for thermal alerts from temperature probes or hard-drive failure alerts from storage devices.

Change the state of your computer, such as updating its BIOS or shutting it down remotely.

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Dell DCSM, DCCY, 740-MT, 740-DT manual Advanced Features, LegacySelect Technology Control, Manageability

740-DT, 740-MT, DCCY, 740, DCSM specifications

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