In article .com,
says...
The LCD will be lit and functioning as long as the power cable is
plugged in...even with the system powered down. During boot up, it will
echo all of the posting steps (CPU initialization, memory test, etc.)
even before the display is initialized. After bootup it will provide
you with quick easy access to any error messages incurred during boot
(the arrow keys will navigate through the list). During normal
operation, you can install the Integrated Management Display Utility,
from the ProLiant Support Pack, and setup a custom default display of
your choice. My 3000's are setup to display this information during
normal running:

Line 1) System Name
Line 2) System Time
Line 3) CPU Usage (a bar graph and %)
Line 4) Main Menu

Of course there are many other options. You may wish to display a graph
of memory usage, for example.


I'm downloading the PSP at the moment, but can't find a listing on the
website for "Integrated Management Display Utility". The software you're
referring to wouldn't happen to be the hpasm module, would it?