Users Guide

1 Introduction to Dell Command | Monitor 10.2.1................................................................................5
What's new in this release for Dell Command | Monitor 10.2.1........................................................................................5
Dell Command | Monitor overview......................................................................................................................................5
2 Windows SMM Security Mitigations Table (WSMT) Compliance.......................................................7
3 Standards and protocols for Dell Command | Monitor 10.2.1.............................................................8
4 Use case scenarios using Dell Command | Monitor 10.2.1................................................................. 9
Scenario 1: Asset management............................................................................................................................................9
SCCM integration ...........................................................................................................................................................9
Scenario 2: Configuration management............................................................................................................................. 9
Scenario 3: Health monitoring............................................................................................................................................ 10
Monitoring system alerts through operating system Event Viewer, Syslog, or CIM indication...........................10
Scenario 4: Profiles.............................................................................................................................................................. 10
Asset profile.................................................................................................................................................................... 10
Battery profile..................................................................................................................................................................11
BIOS management profile.............................................................................................................................................. 11
Boot control..................................................................................................................................................................... 11
Base desktop mobile.......................................................................................................................................................11
Log record........................................................................................................................................................................11
Physical asset..................................................................................................................................................................12
System memory profile..................................................................................................................................................12
5 Using Dell Command | Monitor 10.2.1............................................................................................13
Polling interval setting..........................................................................................................................................................13
RAID status reporting.......................................................................................................................................................... 13
Monitoring the Dell client systems.....................................................................................................................................13
Application log for Dell Command | Monitor for Linux.....................................................................................................14
Detecting advance format drives.......................................................................................................................................14
Boot configurations..............................................................................................................................................................14
DCIM_AssetWarrantyInformation................................................................................................................................14
DCIM_BootConfigSetting.............................................................................................................................................15
DCIM_BootSourceSetting............................................................................................................................................ 15
DCIM_OrderedComponent...........................................................................................................................................15
DCIM_Smart Attribute.................................................................................................................................................. 15
Changing the system settings............................................................................................................................................15
Setting BIOS attributes in a system running Windows using PowerShell commands.......................................... 16
Setting BIOS attributes in the system running Linux.................................................................................................16
Changing the boot sequence........................................................................................................................................18
Shutting down and restarting the Windows system remotely.................................................................................19
Getting system time value on Windows system remotely........................................................................................19
6 Managing Dell client systems locally using Dell Command | Monitor 10.2.1....................................... 21
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