Administrator Guide

Administrative Launch Utility (CMGAlu)
This utility enables administrators to unlock User or Common encrypted les on a computer while a process is running.
This utility is used to launch jobs from a management console. The utility must be copied to the target computer and any job that requires
access to User or Common encrypted les is changed to run this utility, by passing the command line for the management job, to the utility.
Once the process exits, the utility terminates.
This utility uses one of the following methods to unlock les, depending on the command line parameter passed to the application:
• Forensic Mode - Used if -f is passed on the command line, or if no parameter is passed on the command line.
• Admin Mode - Used if -k is passed on the command line.
• Backup File Mode - Used if -b is passed on the command line.
Log les can be located at C:\ProgramData\CmgAdmin.log
Use Forensic Mode
Forensic Mode Syntax
CmgAlu -f -vX -aAdminName -AAdminPwd [-r] [-XURL [-dMCID] [-sSCID]] "command"
Forensic Mode Parameters
Description
-f Indicates that Forensic mode is to be used.
-vX X indicates the log level. Log levels are 0-5 (0 is no logs/5 is debug level).
AdminPwd Forensic administrator password
AdminName User name of the administrator with forensic administrator credentials
-r Instructs the utility to load the Device Server URL and MCID (or SCID) of the computer
from the registry.
If -r is not specied, the URL/Server and MCID (or SCID) must be supplied.
URL Fully qualied Device Server URL
If your Dell Server is pre-v7.7, the format is https://deviceserver.domain.com:8081/xapi
If your Dell Server is v7.7 or later, the format is https://deviceserver.domain.com:8443/
xapi/
MCID Device ID for the device to unlock.
MCID is also known as the Device Unique ID or hostname.
SCID Shield ID for the device to unlock.
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Admin Utilities
Administrative Launch Utility (CMGAlu)
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