Users Guide

8. 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.

9. Click Next.

The Schedule Task tab is displayed.

10. You can either choose to apply the password changes immediately or schedule it to run later.

Depending on the schedule, select one of the following options:

• Run now — the BIOS password configuration is immediately applied and displays the Running

status in the Task Queue.

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

• Run At — the BIOS password configuration is queued in the Task Queue.

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

11. Provide a brief description of the changes you are applying and click Next.

The Summary tab is displayed.

12. Click Finish.

The Task Queue window is opened and depending on how you scheduled the task, it starts running

immediately or will be queued.

Operations

This feature allows you to set up KVM sessions, turn off, turn on, and reboot Dell client systems, and

remote wipe the hard drives of Dell client systems.

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.

NOTE: Before a remote KVM session can be established, enable KVM through the Intel Management

Engine BIOS Extension (MEBx) interface.

NOTE: After a period of inactivity if the KVM session times out, re-establish the KVM session. To

specify the time-out period, see

KVM

To establish KVM sessions with remote client systems with Intel graphics card:

1. Launch the Intel vPro OOB Management Extensions.

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

2. Click Operations → KVM Connect.

The KVM Connect tab is displayed.

3. Search for the list of client systems on which you want to establish KVM sessions.

4. Select a client system on which you want to start the KVM session and click Connect.

Performing Power Management

This feature allows you to gracefully shut down or restart your client system, through the Windows

operating system enabled by the AMT operation.