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Summary of Software Security Features

The table below lists the software security features and describes what protection each offers. In general, to enable or set the features listed here, you must run the BIOS Setup and go to the Security Subsystem Group, menu. The table also refers to the Setup utility.

 

Software Security Features

 

 

Feature

Description

Secure mode

How to enter secure mode:

 

• Setting and enabling passwords automatically places the system in

 

secure mode.

 

• If you set a hot-key combination (through Setup), you can secure the

 

system simply by pressing the key combination. This means you do not

 

have to wait for the inactivity time-out period.

 

When the system is in secure mode:

 

The server can boot and run the operating system, but mouse and

 

keyboard input is not accepted until the user password is entered.

 

At boot time, if a CD is detected in the CD-ROM drive or a diskette in

 

drive A, the system prompts for a password. When the password is

 

entered, the server boots from CD or diskette and disables the secure

 

mode.

 

If there is no CD in the CD-ROM drive or diskette in drive A, the server

 

boots from drive C and automatically goes into secure mode. All enabled

 

secure mode features go into effect at boot time.

 

To leave secure mode: Enter the correct password(s).

 

 

Disable writing to

In secure mode, the server will not boot from or write to a diskette unless

diskette

a password is entered.

 

To write protect access to diskette whether the server is in secure mode

 

or not, use the Setup main menu, Floppy Options, and specify Floppy

 

Access as read only.

Set a time out

Specify and enable an inactivity time out period of from 1 to 120 minutes.

period so that

If no keyboard or mouse action occurs for the specified period, attempted

keyboard and

keyboard and mouse input will not be accepted.

mouse input are not

The monitor display will go blank, and the diskette drive will be write

accepted.

protected (if these security features are enabled through Setup).

Also, screen can be

To resume activity: Enter the correct password(s).

blanked, and writes

to diskette can be

 

inhibited

 

Control access to

To control access to setting or changing the system configuration, set a

using the BIOS

supervisor password and enable it through Setup.

Setup: set

If both the supervisor and user passwords are enabled, either can be

supervisor

used to boot the server or enable the keyboard and/or mouse, but only

password

the supervisor password will allow Setup to be changed.

 

 

To disable a password, change it to a blank entry or press CTRL-D in the

 

Change Password menu of the Supervisor Password Option menu found

 

in the Security Subsystem Group.

 

To clear the password if you cannot access Setup, change the Clear

 

Password jumper (see Chapter 3).

 

 

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5800 specifications

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