Users Guide

Contents
1 Introduction....................................................................................................................................................5
What's new in this release.................................................................................................................................................5
Dell Command | Monitor overview.................................................................................................................................. 5
2 Windows SMM Security Mitigations Table (WSMT) Compliance................................................................... 7
3 Features........................................................................................................................................................ 8
CIM schema support......................................................................................................................................................... 8
BIOS settings conguration and enumeration................................................................................................................8
WMI/OMI security............................................................................................................................................................. 8
Alert reporting.....................................................................................................................................................................9
Remote shutdown..............................................................................................................................................................9
System information access...............................................................................................................................................9
Detailed asset information.................................................................................................................................................9
Remote wake-up conguration........................................................................................................................................ 9
Remote modication of system BIOS settings...............................................................................................................9
System health and status..................................................................................................................................................9
RAID monitoring and alerting for Intel and LSI Controllers........................................................................................... 9
SNMP monitoring and traps............................................................................................................................................10
4 Standards and protocols............................................................................................................................... 11
5 User scenarios..............................................................................................................................................12
Scenario 1: Asset management.......................................................................................................................................12
SCCM integration ......................................................................................................................................................12
Scenario 2: Conguration management........................................................................................................................ 13
Scenario 3: Health monitoring.........................................................................................................................................13
Monitoring system alerts through operating system Event Viewer, Syslog, or CIM indication.........................13
Scenario 4: Proles...........................................................................................................................................................13
Battery prole..............................................................................................................................................................14
BIOS management prole..........................................................................................................................................14
Boot control.................................................................................................................................................................14
Base desktop mobile...................................................................................................................................................14
Log record....................................................................................................................................................................15
Physical asset..............................................................................................................................................................15
System memory prole.............................................................................................................................................. 15
6 Using Dell Command | Monitor.....................................................................................................................16
Polling interval setting...................................................................................................................................................... 16
RAID status reporting.......................................................................................................................................................16
Monitoring the Dell client systems................................................................................................................................. 16
Application log for Dell Command | Monitor for Linux................................................................................................. 17
Conguration le.........................................................................................................................................................17
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