Viewing Logs

You can view System Event Logs (SELs) and Lifecycle logs. For more information, see Viewing System Event Log and Viewing Lifecycle Log .

Viewing Last System Crash Screen

The last crash screen feature captures a screenshot of the most recent system crash, saves, and displays it in iDRAC. This is a licensed feature.

To view the last crash screen:

1.Make sure that the last system crash screen feature is enabled.

2.In iDRAC Web interface, go to Overview Server Troubleshooting Last Crash Screen. The Last Crash Screen page displays the last saved crash screen from the managed system.

Click Clear to delete the last crash screen.

Related Links

Enabling Last Crash Screen

Viewing Front Panel Status

The Front Panel on the managed system summarizes the status of the following components in the system:

Batteries

Fans

Intrusion

Power Supplies

Removable Flash Media

Temperatures

Voltages

You can view the status of the front panel of the managed system:

For rack and tower servers: LCD front panel and system ID LED status or LED front panel and system ID LED status.

For blade servers: Only system ID LEDs.

Viewing System Front Panel LCD Status

To view the LCD front panel status for applicable rack and tower servers, in iDRAC Web interface, go to Overview Hardware Front Panel. The Front Panel page displays.

The Live Front Panel Feed section displays the live feed of the messages currently being displayed on the LCD front panel. When the system is operating normally (indicated by Solid Blue color in the LCD front panel), then both Hide Error and UnHide Error is grayed-out. You can hide or unhide the errors only for rack and tower servers.

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Dell iDRAC8 manual Viewing Logs, Viewing Last System Crash Screen, Viewing Front Panel Status