16 About Your System
Home Screen
The Home screen displays user-configurable information about the system.
This screen is displayed during normal system operation when there are no
status messages or errors present. When the system is in standby mode,
theLCD backlight turns off after five minutes of inactivity if there are
no error messages. Press one of the three navigation buttons (Select, Left,
orRight) 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
Homeicon.
Setup Menu
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. Twoseparate
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 more
user-friendly description. See "LCD Panel Features
(Optional)" on page14 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 page17 to see
the options and option items that can be selected to
display by default on the Home screen.
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