Users Guide

For more information, visit the Dell support site:

1. Go to Dell.com/support

2. Verify your country or region in the Choose a Country/Region drop-down list at the bottom of the page

3. Select support category - Warranty and Contracts

• Disable warranty feature and subsequent refresh calls.

• Pull warranty information on-demand.

NOTE: Warranty information is automatically updated every 15 days. In case of recent warranty status, the warranty

information enumerated may not be same as the one on the Dell support site.

Battery profile

• Determine the status of the battery by enumerating or getting the instance of the class DCIM_Battery.

• Determine the estimate run time and see the estimated remaining charge.

• Check if the health information of the battery can be determined using the properties Operational Status and HealthState of the class

DCIM_Battery.

• Get additional information about the health of a battery using DCIM_Sensor.CurrentState property or the

CIM_NumericSensor.CurrentState property.

BIOS management profile

• Determine the BIOS version by enumerating the instance of the class DCIM_BIOSElement..

• Check whether BIOS attribute values can be modified or not. Get the instance of the class, DCIM_BIOSEnumeration. The attribute

can be modified if the property IsReadOnly is set to FALSE.

• Set the system password (SystemPwd). Run the DCIM_BIOSService.SetBIOSAttributes() method and set the SystemPwd to

AttributeName and password value to AttributeValue parameters.

• Set the BIOS or Admin password (AdminPwd). Run the DCIM_BIOSService.SetBIOSAttributes() method and set the AdminPwd

to AttributeName and password value to AttributeValue parameters.

• Run the DCIM_BIOSService.SetBIOSAttributes() method and specify the AttributeName and AttributeValue parameters.

• To modify a BIOS Attribute when BIOS or Admin password is set, run the DCIM_BIOSService.SetBIOSAttributes() method and

specify the AttributeName, AttributeValue, and current BIOS password as the AuthorizationToken input parameter.

Boot control

• Change the sequence of the boot items in the Legacy and UEFI boot list.

• Enable or disable the boot items in the Legacy and UEFI boot list.

• Find the current boot configuration by enumerating the instances of the class DCIM_ElementSettingData whose IsCurrent

property is set to 1. The DCIM_BootConfigSetting represents the current boot configuration.

Base desktop mobile

• Determine the system model, service tag, and serial number by enumerating the instance of the class, DCIM_ComputerSystem.

• Run the DCIM_ComputerSystem.RequestStateChange() method and set the RequestedState parameter value to 3. Turn off the

system.

• Reboot the system. Run the DCIM_ComputerSystem.RequestStateChange() method and set the RequestedState parameter

value to 11.

• Determine the power state of the system.

• Determine the number of processors in the system by querying DCIM_Processor, instances which are associated with the Central

Instance through the DCIM_SystemDevice association.

• Get the system time. Run the DCIM_TimeService.ManageTime() method and set the GetRequest parameter to True.

• Check the health status of the managed element.

Log record

• Identify the log name by selecting the DCIM_RecordLog instance in which the ElementName property corresponds to the log

name.

Use case scenarios using Dell Command | Monitor 10.3