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3 Dell Agentless Client Manageability Technical Whitepaper | ID 413
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Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................. 2
Table of contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 4
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.1 Background ......................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.2 Windows Management Instrumentation & PowerShell ...................................................................................... 5
2 Platform Level Data Modeling ...................................................................................................................................... 6
2.1 Enumeration attribute ......................................................................................................................................... 6
2.2 Integer attribute................................................................................................................................................... 6
2.3 String attribute .................................................................................................................................................... 6
3 WMI namespace, classes and instances ..................................................................................................................... 7
3.1 EnumerationAttribute .......................................................................................................................................... 7
3.2 IntegerAttribute ................................................................................................................................................... 7
3.3 StringAttribute ..................................................................................................................................................... 7
4 Modifying Attributes & BIOS Defaults. ......................................................................................................................... 9
5 Boot order enumeration and configuration ................................................................................................................. 12
6 Managing passwords ................................................................................................................................................. 14
Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................................................ 15