UEFI System Utilities GUI

HPE ProLiant Gen10 and HPE Synergy compute modules support a GUI UEFI System Utilities. Both mouse and keyboard devices are supported on the UEFI System Utilities GUI.

Regions

The System Utilities GUI has the following regions:

  1. Caption Bar—This region shows the UEFI form title and the system buttons. The Form title shows the name of the form that you are currently navigating.

  2. Navigation History—This region shows the forms to which you navigated previously. A Navigation History node is added to the navigation history each time you visit a new system utility form.

  3. Server Information—This region shows server information and function key information.

  4. System Utilities Form—This region shows the menu options of the current form.

  5. Activity Bar—This region shows the system wide functions, such as function keys and the system status indicator.

Keyboard support in the GUI

The GUI has support for basic keys to navigate the system utilities form. The Tab key is used to change the focus on the different regions of the form. Supported keys include:

  • Up and Down arrows

  • Enter

  • Function keys

  • Esc key

Navigation History region and keyboard support

Navigation History shows system utility forms which user navigated previously. A Navigation History node is added to the Navigation History each time you visit a new form. You can Click a Navigation History node to return to the utility form that you previously visited.

If there are too many Navigation History nodes to fit on the Navigation History bar, the Home node is collapsed. To view a pop-up list of the navigation history node that you visited, you can select the Home node. To return to a previously accessed form, you can Click a Navigation History node from the list.

To move through the Navigation History region, you use the:

  • Tab key to change focus in the Navigation History region.

  • Enter key to get in to the Navigation History node selection mode and to select a node.

  • Arrow keys to move to the node you want to select.

  • Esc key to exit the Navigation History node selection mode.

Gen10 Plus features

  • Language selection—Located in the Caption Bar.

  • Pending Changes—Lists changes that have not been saved.

  • Forced Write Settings—Displays options that are forced to change due to changing an option.

  • Search—Search for an RBSU option.

  • Dependency viewer— Press the question mark button located in the Caption Bar. The information about why the option is greyed out will be showed up in red.