Dell T710 owner manual Home Screen, Setup Menu

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, the LCD backlight will turn off after five minutes of inactivity if there are no error messages. Press one of the three navigation buttons (Select, Left, or Right) 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 Home icon.

From the Home screen, press the Select button to enter the main menu. See the following tables for information on the Setup and View submenus.

Setup Menu

NOTE: When you select an option in the Setup menu, you must confirm the option before proceeding to the next action.

Option	Description
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. Two
	separate 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
	simplified user-friendly description. See "LCD Status
	Messages" on page 25 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 page 17 to see
	the options and option items that can be selected to
	display by default on the Home screen.

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