Setup Guide

The Wipe Client Disk feature remotely erases data on supported client system's hard drives.

1. Launch the Intel vPro OOB Management Extensions.

For more information, see Launching The Intel vPro OOB Management Extensions..

2. Click Operations → Wipe Client Data.

3. After selecting Wipe Client Data, you can perform one of the following actions:

• Schedule — to schedule a time for client system's hard disk wipe. For more information, see

Scheduling Wipe Client Data.

NOTE: To schedule a Remote Wipe Client Data operation, the client must be accessible

through the network.

• Retrieve — to retrieve status of client system's hard disk wipe. For more information, see

Retrieving Wipe Client Data Status.

Scheduling Wipe Client Data

The Wipe Client Data feature remotely erases data on supported client system's hard drives. To schedule

a Wipe Client Data:

1. Select Schedule and click Next.

The Select Clients tab is displayed.

2. Search for client systems to which you want to schedule a remote data wipe.

3. From the Available clients list select the client systems you want to manage and click the button to

move your selected systems or press the button to move all the discovered Dell clients into the

Selected clients list.

4. Click Next.

5. The Schedule Task tab is displayed.

6. You can either choose to apply the task immediately or schedule it to run later. Depending on your

schedule, select one of the following options:

• Run now — the wipe client data operations are immediately applied and displays the Running

status in the Task Queue.

NOTE: If your client systems are not connected to the network, run the task again.

• Run At — wipe client disk operations are queued in the Task Queue.

NOTE: You can launch the Task Queue to view the list of completed and pending tasks.

7. Provide a brief description of the Task you are applying and click Next.

NOTE: It is recommended to run the Retrieve Wipe Client Data task to make sure that the hard

drives of the client systems have been formatted successfully. For more information see,

Retrieving Wipe Client Data.

8. Click Finish.

Retrieving Wipe Client Data Status

NOTE: Retrieve requests the status of the Wipe Client Data operation.

NOTE: After the remote hard drive wipe command has been issued from the server to the client

system, the task’s status changes to

Complete. The format process on the client system will begin

only after the status changes to Complete.

To retrieve the status:

1. Select Retrieve and click Next.