
Firmware Functional Specification Intel® Local Control Panel for EPSD Platforms TPS
Intel order number G83726-001 Revision 1.0
On pressing Enter button when the screen shows banner or error message, the Main Menu is
displayed. The Main Menu contains Evt, View, and Conf items. Based on the user’s selection
in the Main Menu, respective sub-menu items will be displayed. At any point of time, if there is
no user intervention for more than 10 minutes, latest high severity event in the system is
displayed (if one exists or a banner is displayed if the system is healthy).
The following sections discuss about the individual menu items. It is assumed that no active
event exists in the system during the LCD display in the following figures. That is the reason
why the background color of LCD in the following examples is light green. If any event (fatal or
non-fatal) occurs that degrades the system’s health, the color of the LCD background turns into
light amber. Even though all the contents (full text) are shown in the example screen shots in
the following sections, by default, only the first 16 characters are displayed when a particular
menu item is selected. The remaining text can be viewed by using Right or Left buttons.
3.3 Main Menu
On pressing Enter button, when Banner/Error screen is displayed, the following main menu is
displayed. Using Left and Right buttons, the cursor can be moved under any one of the
following four menu items.
Figure 10: Main Menu
If the user selects menu item, then the LCD displays the previous screen, that is,
Banner/Error string. Selecting the menu item means, moving the cursor under that item using
Left or Right buttons and pressing the Enter button subsequently. In all the following sections
(or for any screen shot), if the user presses Enter button, when the cursor is under the symbol
, it displays the previous screen. Selecting any of the menu items; Evt, View, or Conf, leads
the display to their corresponding screen shots and the details are given in the following
sections.
3.4 Event Menu
If the Evt item is selected in the main menu, the LCD displays the following screen shown in the
figure.
Figure 11: Event Menu
This screen is used to traverse the current active error event messages in the system. The
latest high severity event is displayed in place of the banner if one exists. If more than one
critical or degraded event exists in the system, this screen can be used to traverse all of them.
However, at any given time, the LCD retains and displays a maximum of the 20 latest high
severity events. When a higher or a same level of severity event happens as the 21st event,
then the oldest low severity event will be discarded. It is assumed that a system will not have
more than 20 active (asserted) critical events at any given time. The menu items, and are
used to traverse among these event messages. Selection of the menu item , displays the
previous event and the item , displays the next event in human readable format. By default, it