Users Guide

Scenario 4: Profiles

IT administrators are required to manage client system in multi-vendor and distributed enterprise

environments. They face challenges as they must master diverse set of tools and applications while

managing several desktop and mobile client systems in various networks. To reduce the cost of these

requirements and represent the provided management data, the industry-standard Distributed

Management Task Force (DMTF) and Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM-OEM) profiles are

implemented in Command | Monitor. Some of the DMTF profiles are explained in this guide.

For more information on Command | Monitor, see Dell Command | Monitor Reference Guide at

dell.com/clientsystemsmanagement.

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 value 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.