4-14 Configuring Your Server

Option

Parameter

Description

Your Setting

Set Supervisor

Up to eight

When the <Enter> key is pressed, the

 

Password

alphanumerics

user is prompted for a password;

 

 

 

press ESC key to abort. Once set, this

 

 

 

can be disabled by setting it to a null

 

 

 

string, or by clearing password jumper

 

 

 

on system board (refer to Configuring

 

 

 

Mother Board Jumpers in this

 

 

 

chapter).

 

Password on boot

[Disabled]

Disables or enables password entry

 

 

Enabled

on boot.

 

Fixed disk boot

[Normal]

Will write protect the boot sector of the

 

sector

Write Protect

hard drive to prevent viruses from

 

 

 

corrupting the drive under DOS if set

 

 

 

to write protect.

 

Secure Mode

[Disabled]

Set the period from no input from the

 

Timer

1 min

keyboard or mouse to the point at

 

 

2 min

which the system enters into the

 

 

5 min

secure mode.

 

 

10 min

 

 

 

20 min

 

 

 

1 hr.

 

 

 

2 hr.

 

 

Security Hot Key

[L]

Specify the hot key to invoke secure

 

CTRL-ALT-

Z

mode features. Pressing the assigned

 

 

 

key along with Ctrl and Alt invoke

 

 

 

secure mode. This option is enabled

 

 

 

when User Password is set.

 

Secure Mode Boot

[Disabled]

Specify whether the system boots in

 

 

Enabled

secure mode. This option is enabled

 

 

 

when User Password is set.

 

Video Blanking

[Disabled]

Specify whether to turn off the monitor

 

 

Enabled

when secure mode is activated.

 

Floppy Write

[Disabled]

Controls access to the floppy disk

 

Protect

Enabled

drive during the secure mode.

 

Power Switch

[Disabled]

Enables or disables the POWER

 

Inhibit

Enabled

switch. If "Enabled" is selected,

 

 

 

power-off with the POWER switch

 

 

 

becomes unavailable after OS boot-

 

 

 

up. (Forced shut down also becomes

 

 

 

unavailable. Forced shut down is a

 

 

 

feature to shut down by pressing the

 

 

 

POWER switch for at least four

 

 

 

seconds.)

 

 

 

[

]: Factory-set