Dell Client Integration Pack for Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Version 3.0 User’s Guide August 2012 Rev.
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Contents Chapter 1: Introduction................................................................................................................. 5 What’s new in this release.................................................................................................................................................5 Key Features And Functionalities....................................................................................................................................
Software prerequisites.....................................................................................................................................................20 Launching the Dell Command | Intel vPro Out of Band application......................................................................20 Database And Password Configuration........................................................................................................................ 21 USB provisioning...........................
1 Introduction This document describes the activities that you can perform with Dell Command | Integration Suite for System Center on systems running Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. Topics: • • • What’s new in this release Key Features And Functionalities Supported Client Operating Systems and Dell Devices What’s new in this release ● In the Password feature, replaced the Length option with Configure option.
Supported Client Operating Systems and Dell Devices For the list of client operating systems that Dell Command | Integration Suite for System Center supports, see the readme.txt in the installation directory. Supported operating systems The following lists the types and specific versions of operating systems that are supported by this application.
2 Using Dell Command | Integration Suite for System Center Before you begin using Dell Command | Integration Suite for System Center, make sure that the target Dell client systems are registered as Configure Manager clients and present under All Systems on the Configuration Manager console. For more information on configuring clients through Configuration Manager, see the Microsoft TechNet article at technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg682144.
12. Click Close. The Windows PE boot image is updated to include the selected Dell drivers. Creating Dell Client Driver Packages To create Dell client driver packages: 1. Download the operating system Dell Command | Deploy (System) Driver Library file from dell.com/downloads. 2. Launch Configuration Manager console. 3. Click Software Library. 4. Expand Overview > Operating Systems. 5. Right-click Driver Packages and click Dell Command | Integration Suite > Dell Command | Deploy (System) Driver Library.
3. Expand Overview > Application Management. 4. Right-click Packages, then click Dell Command | Integration Suite > Import Dell Command | Configure Package. The Dell Command | Configure Package Import Wizard screen is displayed. 5. Click Browse and browse the location of the Dell Command | Configure SCE file. NOTE: The Dell Command | Configure SCE file is generated by exporting customized settings from the Dell Command | Configure. For more information, see Dell Command | Configure User’s Guide on dell.
Creating a task sequence Task sequences are used to capture an operating system image, configure its settings, and deploy the image on a set of Dell client systems. You can create a task sequence in two ways: ● Create a Dell-specific task sequence, which has a set of pre-specified actions, using the Client Operating System Deployment Task Template template. ● Create a custom task sequence where you can add custom actions to the task sequence.
Editing A Task Sequence To edit a task sequence: 1. On the Configuration Manager console, click Software Library. 2. Expand Overview > Operating Systems and click Task Sequence. 3. Right-click the task sequence and click Edit. The Task Sequence Editor window is displayed. You can now make changes to the task sequence accordingly.
Exporting options without setting values You can export certain options without specifying any values. The options are asset and propowntag. To export asset and propowntag without specifying any values, select the Apply Settings check box of the corresponding option and export. Password protection dialog box If you have configured the system or setup password in the exporting file (configuration file or report), a password protection dialog box is displayed.
● Apply operating system from a captured image ● Apply operating system from an original installation source 3. Click Browse and select the operating system image or package. 4. Under Select the location where you want to apply this operating system select the Destination and Drive Letter. 5. Click OK. You have successfully applied an operating system image. Apply driver packages To apply driver packages: 1.
1. On the Select Source window, select Import single computer. Click Next. 2. Specify information relating to the computer you are importing in the following fields: ● Computer name ● MAC address (12 hex characters) ● SMBIOS GUID (32 hex characters) - (optional) 3. Click Next. NOTE: Ensure that the computer name you enter starts with a letter. Otherwise, the deployment will fail. 4. The Choose Target Collection window opens.
Best Practices For Advertising a Task Sequence The following settings are recommendations for advertising a task sequence.
3 Dell Command | Warranty The Dell Command | Warranty can be installed as a stand-alone application or part of the Dell Command | Integration Suite for System Center on systems running Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager, System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager, and Microsoft System Center Current Branch.
Saving The Configuration To A File To save the Dell Warranty configuration to a file, enter the following command DellWarranty-CLI.exe setup_config config_file=admin.cfg (where admin.cfg is the name of the configuration file.) Enter the configuration information required to set up the Dell Warranty. For more information, see Configuring Dell Warranty. NOTE: The password is stored in an encrypted form. Retrieving warranty information 1.
Exporting Service-Tags From Configuration Manager To A CSV File In order to retrieve a list of Service Tags present in the Configuration Manager inventory and export them to a .csv file, you can use the export_svc_tags command. To retrieve the warranty information through WMI: ● Using the configuration settings saved to the registry, enter the following command: Dell.WarrantyInfo.exe export_svc_tags tags.csv. ● Using the configuration settings saved to a file, enter the following command: Dell.WarrantyInfo.
Reporting Services Of The Configuration Manager To use the reporting services of Configuration Manager: 1. Install SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). For more information, see the Configuration Manager documentation at technet.microsoft.com. 2. Navigate to reports using http:/// reports. 3. Import RDL Template provided with Dell Warranty. Provide a suitable name to the report. For more information, see the Configuration Manager documentation at technet.microsoft.com. 4.
4 The Dell Command | Intel vPro Out Of Band Application The Dell Command | Intel vPro Out of Band application provides an out-of-band management solution through a stand-alone application on the system running Dell Command | Integration Suite for System Center. The application allows you remotely to manage client systems regardless of the system power or operating state.
Database And Password Configuration The Account Setup window is displayed the first time you launch the Dell Command | Intel vPro Out of Band application. From here you can configure the following settings: 1. Retrieve and select an available Configuration Manager SQL Server option from drop-down list. 2. Select the type of SQL Server Security (Integrated or Username / Password) you want to set. 3. Retrieve and select an available Configuration Manager Database from the drop-down list. 4.
1. Launch the Dell Command | Intel vPro Out of Band application. 2. Click Client Configuration > Power Profile. 3. Select the power policy for your Desktop and/or Mobile computers. Click Next. The Select Clients tab is displayed. 4. Search for client systems to which you want to apply the power packages. 5.
NOTE: If your client systems are not connected to the network, run the task again. 10. Provide a name to the task you are running and clickNext. The Summary tab is displayed. 11. Click Finish. The Task Queue window is opened and depending on how you scheduled the task, it starts running immediately or will be queued. Configuring BIOS settings This feature allows you to remotely configure, change, and reset the BIOS settings on one or several client systems.
4. If you want the Task execution to continue to subsequent clients systems when an error occurs, select the Continue on error option. Otherwise, Task execution stops on the first client system where an error is encountered.. 5. If you want to reboot after applying changes select the Reboot after applying changes option. 6. Click Next. The Select Clients tab is displayed. 7. Search for client systems to which you want to apply the Boot Order changes to. 8.
9. Provide a brief description of the changes you are applying and click Next. The Summary tab is displayed. 10. Click Finish. Establishing KVM Sessions This feature allows you to remotely view the primary or secondary (if present) monitors of your client systems with an Intel Graphics card. For more information, see your client systems documentation on dell.com/support/manuals.
Retrieving Reports View existing reports. To retrieve a report: 1. Click Retrieve. The Select Clients tab is displayed. 2. Search for the list of client systems you want to view the reports on. 3. Select the client systems you want to view the reports. Click Add. 4. Click Next. 5. The Retrieve Report tab is displayed. 6. Print, Copy, or Export the report. NOTE: The report is exported as a Micorosoft Excel (.xlsx) file.
4. Select the Default Video Screen, that is the screen you want to connect at the start of the KVM session. 5. If you want the user to provide consent, select the User Consent check box. 6. Set the time-out through the User Consent Timeout. 7. Set the time frame for the KVM session to time-out after a period of inactivity using the Session Timeout. 8. Click Finish. Logging Set your preferences for the type of logs you want to capture by Dell Intel vPro AMT Plugin.
Configuring WinRM on client systems If WinRm has not been configured on any client systems with which you are working that were not provisioned by the Remote Provisioning feature, do the following command at an administrative command prompt: NOTE: Configure the client system’s firewall to accept WinRM commands. NOTE: To retrieve the current WinRM settings, use the following command: winrm get winrm/config. If you are using a Group Policy Object-controlled setting, the command displays this information. 1.
5 Troubleshooting This section contains troubleshooting information for the Dell Command | Integration Suite for System Center.
Hardware inventory report memory speed is reported as zero This is a DMTF issue where memory speed is defined in seconds. Configuration Manager Resource Explorer today reports this as 0. Max password length change Some system BIOS does not support reducing the Maximum password length down from 32. KVM power control to boot to OS in S3 If after a KVM connection is established, the AMT client enters power state S3 or S4, the KVM connection is lost within 30 seconds of entering the sleep state.
6 Related reference In addition to this guide, there are other product guides you should have for reference. You can find the following guides on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com/manuals. ● The Dell Command | Configure User’s Guide describes the installation and use of the Dell Command | Configure to configure various BIOS features for Dell business client platforms. ● The Dell Command | Monitor User’s Guide describes the installation and the use of the Dell Command | Monitor software.
