Pre-operating system management applications
You can manage basic settings and features of a appliance without booting to the operating system by using the appliance firmware.
CAUTION:
• This appliance requires installation and deployment services. Do not rack this appliance or turn on the power. Contact your Dell
EMC Account Team or your reseller for setting up your appliance.
• Dell EMC has optimized your appliance and recommends that you do not change any of these settings.
Topics:
• Options to manage the pre-operating system applications
• System Setup
• Dell Lifecycle Controller
• Boot Manager
• PXE boot
Options to manage the pre-operating system
applications
Your appliance has the following options to manage the pre-operating system applications:
• System Setup
• Boot Manager
• Dell Lifecycle Controller
• Preboot Execution Environment (PXE)
NOTE
: Dell EMC has optimized your appliance and recommends that you do not change any of these settings.
System Setup
By using the System Setup screen, you can configure the BIOS settings, iDRAC settings, and device settings of your appliance.
NOTE
: Dell EMC has optimized your appliance and recommends that you do not change any of these settings.
NOTE: Help text for the selected field is displayed in the graphical browser by default. To view the help text in the text browser,
press F1.
You can access system setup by using two methods:
• Standard graphical browser — The browser is enabled by default.
• Text browser — The browser is enabled by using Console Redirection.
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