16 About Your System
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 turns 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.
Setup Menu
Option Description
BMC or DRAC
NOTE: If an iDRAC6 Express 
card is installed on the 
system, the BMC option is 
replaced by 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 more 
user-friendly description. See "LCD Panel Features 
(Optional)" on page 14 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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