Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell Command | Monitor Version 10.3 User's Guide
- Introduction to Dell Command | Monitor 10.3
- Windows SMM Security Mitigations Table (WSMT) Compliance
- Standards and protocols for Dell Command | Monitor 10.3
- Use case scenarios using Dell Command | Monitor 10.3
- Using Dell Command | Monitor 10.3
- Polling interval setting
- RAID status reporting
- Monitoring the Dell client systems
- Application log for Dell Command | Monitor for Linux
- Detecting advance format drives
- Boot configurations
- Changing the system settings
- Managing Dell client systems locally using Dell Command | Monitor 10.3
- Managing Dell client systems remotely using Dell Command | Monitor 10.3
- Frequently asked questions for Dell Command | Monitor 10.3
- Troubleshooting steps using Dell Command | Monitor 10.3
- Unable to remotely connect to Windows Management Instrumentation
- Installation failure on systems running Windows
- BIOS setting enumeration value appears as 1
- Hapi installation fails due to the dependency of libsmbios
- CIM resources not available
- Unable to execute the commands using DCM on the systems running Ubuntu Core 16
- Third-party licenses
- Other documents you may need
- Contacting Dell
Dell Command | Monitor manages client systems using the management protocols Common Information Model (CIM) standard
and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). This helps to reduce the total cost of system ownership, improves security,
and provides a holistic approach to manage all the devices within a network device.
Using CIM you can access Dell Command | Monitor through Web Services for Management Standards (WSMAN).
Dell Command | Monitor contains the underlying driver set that collects client system information from different sources
including the BIOS, CMOS, System Management BIOS (SMBIOS), System Management Interface (SMI), operating system, and
Application Programming Interface (APIs). Dell Command | Monitor for Windows also collects client system information from
Dynamic-Link Library (DLLs), and registry settings. Dell Command | Monitor for Windows retrieves this information through the
CIM Object Manager (CIMOM) interface, Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) stack, or SNMP agent, whereas Dell
Command | monitor for Linux retrieves this information through Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) interface.
Dell Command | Monitor enables IT administrators to remotely collect asset information, modify BIOS settings,
receive proactive notifications about potential fault conditions, and get alerts for potential security breaches. In the
systems running Windows, these alerts are available as events in the NT event log, WMI event, or SNMP traps v1. For the
systems running Linux, these alerts are received as Syslog, OMI event, or Application log.
Dell Command | Monitor for Windows can be integrated into a console such as Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager
by directly accessing the CIM information, or through other console vendors who have implemented the Dell Command |
Monitor integration. Also, you can create custom scripts to target key areas of interest. Sample scripts are available at Dell
Knowledge Library Dell Command | Monitor page. You can use these scripts to monitor inventory, BIOS settings, and system
health.
NOTE: Default installation does not enable SNMP support. For more information about enabling SNMP support for Dell
Command | Monitor for Windows, see Dell Command | Monitor Installation Guide at dell.com/
dellclientcommandsuitemanuals.
NOTE: Default installation does not enable SNMP support. For more information about enabling SNMP support for Dell
Command | Monitor for Windows, see Dell Command | Monitor Installation Guide.
6 Introduction to Dell Command | Monitor 10.3