You can make the following selections on the Server Menu itself.
Feature | Choices | Description |
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System Management |
| Enters submenu. |
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Console Redirection |
| Enters submenu. |
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PEP Management |
| Enters submenu. |
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Enable Sleep Button | Disabled |
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PCI IRQs to | Disabled | Enabled - BIOS can describe all 24 IO APIC pins in the |
mappings | Enabled | MP table for PCI interrupts. Not all MP operating |
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| systems and drivers can understand this description of |
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| the interrupts in the MP table. |
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| Disabled - BIOS will only use 16 IO APIC pins in the MP |
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| table for PCI interrupts. All PCI interrupts are routed to a |
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| standard ISA IRQ pins on IO APIC. All operating |
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| systems will work with standard ISA IRQ entries. |
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Processor Retest | Yes | Yes tells BIOS to clear the historical processor status |
| No | and retest all processors on the next boot. BIOS |
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| automatically resets to No in next boot. |
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Assert NMI on PERR | Disabled | Enabled generates an NMI on a parity error (PERR). To |
| Enabled | activate this feature, the system error (SERR) option |
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| must be enabled. |
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Assert NMI on SERR | Disabled | Enabled generates an NMI on SERR. |
| Enabled |
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System Management Submenu
Feature | Choices | Description |
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Server Management |
| Enters submenu. |
Info |
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System Event | Disabled | When enabled, system events will be logged by BIOS |
Logging | Enabled | and BMC in system event log. |
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Clear Event Log | No | Yes clears the system event log (SEL) in BMC. BIOS |
| Yes | automatically resets to NO for next boot. |
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EMP Password switch | Disabled | Sets the EMP password. |
| Enabled |
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EMP Password | [A..Z, 0..9] | This field only shows up when the EMP password switch |
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| is enabled. Entering a password and pressing return will |
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| send the password immediately to the BMC. If a beep is |
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| heard the password was not accepted. If no password is |
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| entered, anyone has access to the server through the |
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| EMP Console. |
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EMP Escape | +++ | Sets the escape sequence for the modem being used for |
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| EMP. This will force the modem to command mode. |
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| This is only used if the EMP direct connect/modem mode |
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| is set to modem. |
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| continued |
44 | Configuration Software and Utilities |