Customizing and Using the MX7000 Graphical LCD Control Panel

Customizing and Using the MX7000 graphical LCD control panel

Revisions

Acknowledgements

This paper was produced by the following members of the Dell EMC storage engineering team:

Author: Santosh Bidaralli and Christopher Poblete

Table of contents

Revisions.....2
Acknowledgements.....2
Introduction.....4
Identifying parts of the LCD panel.....4
Navigating the LCD.....5
Out-of-the-box initial deployment with LCD.....6
Customizing the LCD display language.....7
Customizing the LCD home menu.....7
LCD operation modes.....9
Help button.....10
References.....11

Introduction

PowerEdge MX7000 next-generation modular chassis with the touch screen LCD on the left control panel provides an enhanced graphical capability to the at-the-box chassis management.

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The graphical LCD panel provides the following:

Overall chassis health status

• Fault list by subsystem when chassis state is not healthy

• Basic system information

• Management Module network settings and configuration

• Quick Sync 2 for OpenManage Mobile connectivity

• Chassis and sled system identify

• Chassis power off and firmware update notification

This technical whitepaper describes how you can custom configure and use the PowerEdge MX7000 graphical LCD control panel. Other features of the LCD are described in details in a separate technical white paper.

Identifying parts of the LCD panel

Understanding the parts of the LCD panel helps you to effectively use its features. There are three sections to the LCD panel.

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Figure 1 Parts of the LCD panel

The top section of the LCD is the logo (Figure-1 item 1). The logo is always lit when there is AC power input to the chassis and the Management Module is functional. The logo has no response to touch.

The middle section of the LCD is the active touch screen (Figure-1 item 2) where the user interaction occurs. The screen is arranged as a menu that contains buttons. Each button (Figure-1 item 3) contains a combination of icon and text. A button can contain just an icon (Figure-1 item 4) or just texts (Figure-1 item 5).

When idle, the active touch screen section is in the OFF state (sleep) and shows a blank screen. Touching any part of the screen section will turn ON the screen (wake-up) and shows the Home menu. If the screen in the ON state is idle for 10 minutes, the screen will go to the OFF state.

The bottom section of the LCD is combination of status LED and an activation icon (Figure-1 item 5). It responds to touch. The combo section can be in an OFF state or ON state. In an ON state, the LED can be solid/blinking color blue (Figure-1 item 6) or amber with warning sign (Figure-1 item 7).

When idle, the combo section is in the ON state while the active touch screen section is OFF. Touching the combo section will turn OFF the combo section and will turn ON the active touch screen section.

Navigating the LCD

The LCD panel is vertically oriented with dimension of 15.66 mm wide by 62.64 mm tall with viewable resolution of 120 by 480 pixels. It supports touch and has no physical buttons. Navigating the LCD is touch based.

The interactive display in the LCD consists of a menu that contains a series of buttons arranged vertically. Each button has a text box and an optional icon. When a menu has more buttons that can fit within the viewable screen, a scroll bar (Figure-1 item 1) appears as a white line on the right side of the screen. To see more buttons to appear, you can swipe (Figure-1 item 3) the screen up or down. To select a button on the menu and display its content, press or touch the button (Figure-1 item 2).

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Main Menu Press/Touch

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Main Menu Swipe up/down

Figure 2 LCD navigation guide

As a guide, the user touch interaction in the figures in this document is depicted as a light green airbrush. Although it is seemingly located at the corner of the screen so that it does not block the button text/icon, the actual press or touch is more effective if done in the middle.

TIP: For a more responsive swipe, lightly touch the screen, then slowly and lightly make a sliding movement.

Out-of-the-box initial deployment with LCD

MX7000 out-of-the-box and AC power is applied, the first time you see the LCD screen will show you the initialize wizard starting from the Select