Users Guide

Contents
1 Introduction........................................................................................................... 5
Dell Command | Monitor overview...................................................................................................... 5
Dell Command | Monitor architecture.................................................................................................6
What's new in this release.....................................................................................................................6
Features..................................................................................................................................................7
CIM 2.17 schema support................................................................................................................8
BIOS configuration.......................................................................................................................... 8
WMI security.................................................................................................................................... 8
Event reporting................................................................................................................................ 8
Remote shut down..........................................................................................................................8
Information access..........................................................................................................................8
Detailed asset information.............................................................................................................. 8
Remote wake-up configuration..................................................................................................... 9
Remote modification of system settings........................................................................................9
System health and status.................................................................................................................9
RAID monitoring and alerting for Intel and LSI Controllers...........................................................9
SNMP monitoring and traps............................................................................................................9
2 Standards and protocols................................................................................... 10
CIM, SNMP, WMI, and WSMAN technology overview....................................................................... 10
CIM.................................................................................................................................................10
SNMP..............................................................................................................................................10
WMI.................................................................................................................................................11
WSMAN...........................................................................................................................................11
PowerShell..................................................................................................................................... 12
3 System requirements..........................................................................................13
Hardware requirement........................................................................................................................ 13
Software requirements........................................................................................................................13
4 User scenarios..................................................................................................... 14
Scenario 1: Asset management...........................................................................................................14
SCCM integration.......................................................................................................................... 14
Scenario 2: Configuration management............................................................................................ 15
Scenario 3: Health monitoring............................................................................................................15
Monitoring system events through Windows Event Viewer or CIM indication.......................... 15
Scenario 4: Profiles..............................................................................................................................16
Battery profile................................................................................................................................ 16
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