Dell Client Configuration Toolkit Version 2.2.
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Contents 1 Introduction..................................................................................................................................5 What’s New in This Release.....................................................................................................................................5 Supported Systems And Operating Systems............................................................................................................5 Other Documents You May Need...................
Running CCTK Displays Error Messages................................................................................................................19 Running CCTK On 32-Bit And 64-Bit Supported System......................................................................................... 19 Running CCTK On Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Or Windows 8.1 When User Account Control Is Enabled..................................................................................................................
Introduction 1 Dell Client Configuration Toolkit (CCTK) is a packaged software that provides configuration capability to Dell Enterprise client systems. You can configure the client systems using a Graphical User Interface (GUI) or a Command Line Interface (CLI.) For more information on CLI, see Dell Client Configuration Toolkit Command Line Interface Reference Guide.
Accessing Documents From Dell Support Site To access the documents from Dell Support site: 1. Go to dell.com/support/manuals. 2. In the Tell us about your Dell system section, under No, select Choose from a list of all Dell products and click Continue. 3. In the Select your product type section, click Software and Security. 4.
CCTK Graphical User Interface 2 Dell Client Configuration Toolkit Graphical User Interface (CCTK GUI) displays all Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) configurations supported by CCTK. Using GUI, you can do the following: • Create BIOS configuration for Dell client systems. For more information, see Creating A BIOS Package Using GUI. • Validate the BIOS configuration against the BIOS configuration of the host system. For more information, see BIOS Option Validation.
Creating A BIOS Package Using GUI Using CCTK GUI, you can create a BIOS package containing valid settings to apply on the target client systems. To create a BIOS package: 1. Launch the wizard. For more information, see Launching The CCTK GUI. The Client Configuration Toolkit HOME page is displayed. 2. Click Create Package.
Options Description NOTE: If you try to load a new configuration without exporting the configured BIOS options, then a dialog box is displayed. Click Discard Changes to discard the configured values or click Cancel to continue with the same configuration. Edit Click to edit the loaded configuration.
The corresponding password dialog box is displayed. NOTE: To display the password as clear text, select Display password in clear text. When you select Display password in clear text, then the Confirm Password text box is not displayed. Type the password in the Password textbox. NOTE: The password must contain minimum four characters. 2. Type the same password in the Confirm Password textbox to confirm the password.
3. On the Create Configuration screen, click Edit or double-click the table. 4. Search for autoon. 5. Click View/Change in the Value to set column of autoon. The Auto On screen is displayed. 6. Select the option to configure the days on which the target system has to turn on automatically. NOTE: If you have selected Select Days, then select the days on which the target system has to turn on. 7. Click Save.
Options Description has an internal HDD, eSATA HDD, and eSATA Dock HDD, then the short forms are displayed as hdd.1, hdd.2, and hdd.3 respectively. Description Displays a short description for the device. Status Displays if the device is enabled or disabled. Delete Removes the device from the boot order. Click X to remove a device. NOTE: You can view this option only if the Boot Order screen is in Edit mode. Adding A New Device To The Boot Order 1.
NOTE: If you have selected Custom Charge, then provide the start and stop charging values respectively in the Custom Charge Start and Custom Charge Stop text boxes. 6. Click Save. Configuring Advanced Battery Charging You can configure the advanced battery charging mode using the advbatterychargecfg option of the Power and Performance Management category. Advanced Battery charge mode uses standard charging algorithm and other methods during non-working hours to maximize battery health.
The Peak Shift Charge Configuration dialog box is displayed. 5. Click Edit. 6. Select the Enable PeakShift Charge Config checkbox. NOTE: If Peak Shift is enabled in the BIOS Setup screen, the Enable PeakShift Charge Config checkbox appears as checked. 7. In the Start column, select the start time of the Peak Shift period. NOTE: For Start, End, and ChargeStart, the value of hour must be in the range 0–23 and minute must be 0,15, 30, or 45. 8.
6. Click Save. BIOS Option Validation You can validate the options of a BIOS package against the configuration of the host system using the Validate option. You can validate the settings of a multi-platform file, host system file, or a saved file. You can validate all the options except the bootorder, syspwd, and setuppwd options. Validating A Multi-Platform File Or Saved File To validate the options of a multi-platform or saved file: On the Create Configuration screen, click Validate.
– Shell script — The shell script is generated at the location where SCE file is exported and contains the same configuration as that of the SCE file. The shell script is used to configure a Linux system. Exporting The Configuration Without Setting Values To export asset and propowntag without specifying changes to values: Select the Apply Settings check box of the corresponding option and export. Target System Configuration You can apply the exported .ini, .
NOTE: To generate the log file in a required location: Specify the location of the log file. For example, SCE.exe /l="\log.txt". • When you apply SCE on a target system from a read-only location, provide the /nolog option to prevent generation of the log file. For example, SCE.exe /nolog. The /nolog option helps to successfully run SCE and informs that a log file is not created as SCE is in a read-only location.
Troubleshooting 3 Running CCTK Displays Error Messages If you get the following error message, then uninstall and reinstall Hardware Application Programming Interface (HAPI): Required BIOS interface not found or HAPI load error. Running CCTK On 32-Bit And 64-Bit Supported System Ensure that you are running CCTK.exe based on the architecture of the system. If you are running CCTK in a 32-bit supported system, in the installation directory, navigate to the x86 directory and run CCTK commands.
3. Reboot the system. 4. Activate TPM. Type: cctk --tpmactivation=activate --valsetuppwd= 5. Reboot the system without interruption till the operating system loads. 6. Check the status of TPM. Type: cctk --tpmactivation The status is displayed as activate. SCE Failing To Run On Windows Pre-Installation (Windows PE) Environment The SCE generated using the Export option on GUI is failing to run on Windows PE.
