Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell Command | Configure Version 4.3 User's Guide
- Introduction to Dell Command | Configure 4.3
- Windows SMM Security Mitigations Table (WSMT) Compliance for Dell Command | Configure 4.3
- Using graphical user interface for Dell Command | Configure 4.3
- Accessing Dell Command | Configure within Windows system
- Accessing Dell Command | Configure within Linux
- Files and folders of Dell Command | Configure
- Accessing the Dell Command | Configure GUI
- Creating a BIOS package using the GUI
- Configuration options
- Configuring the setup, system, and hard disk drive passwords
- Clearing setup, system and hard disk drive passwords using the existing password
- Password protection screen
- Configuring the autoon option
- Configuring the bootorder option
- Boot order screen
- Adding a new device to the boot order
- Boot order type
- Configuring the primarybatterycfg option
- Configuring the advbatterychargecfg option
- Configuring the peakshiftcfg option
- Password Configuration option
- Configuring the keyboardbacklightcolor option
- Advanced System Management
- BIOS option validation
- Exporting the BIOS configuration
- Target system configuration
- Log details in Package History
- Troubleshooting scenarios in Dell Command | Configure 4.3
- Third-party licenses
Introduction to Dell Command | Configure
4.3
Dell Command | Configure is a software package that provides a simple configuration capability for client systems. You can
easily configure client systems using a User Interface (UI) or a Command Line Interface (CLI).
Dell Command | Configure supports the following Windows and Linux operating systems: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1,
and Windows 10, Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7,
Ubuntu Desktop 16.04, and Ubuntu core 16.
For more information about using the CLI, see Dell Command | Configure Command Line Interface Reference Guide available at
Dell.com/DellClientCommandSuiteManuals.
NOTE: This software was rebranded as Dell Command | Configure after Dell Client Configuration Toolkit version 2.2.1.
Topics:
• What’s new in this release
• Other documents you may need
What’s new in this release
● Updated attribute names and possible values.
To view the complete list of the new and the older names:
1. Go to Dell Knowledge Library and search for Dell Command | Configure page using the Search box of the page.
2. On the Dell Command | Configure page, click Knowledge Base to view Reference list for updated names of
attributes and possible values for Dell Command | Configure.
● Support for the following new BIOS attributes:
○ --UsbGpsCoexistence
○ --FrontFan
○ --AdaptiveCStates
○ --AntennaSwitch
○ --BatteryFuelGauge
○ --FrontBezelLEDIntensity
○ --DockWarningsEnMsg
○ --DynTunML
○ --M2PcieSsd2
○ --M2PcieSsd3
○ --TabletButtonsTimeoutAc
○ --TabletButtonsTimeoutBatt
○ --TelemetryAccessLvl
○ --DynamicWirelessTransmitPower
○ --SignOfLifeByLogo
○ --PasswordConfiguration
● There are certain preenabled features in Dell Command | Configure, for these features the help texts may not be available.
However, you can perform get and set operations.
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