Reference Guide

Introduction

Dell Client Configuration Toolkit (CCTK) is a packaged software offering that provides configuration capability to Dell

business client platforms – OptiPlex, Latitude, and Dell Precision workstation. This product consists of a Command Line

Interface (CLI) and Graphical User Interface (GUI) to configure various BIOS features. You can use CCTK on Microsoft

Windows Pre-installation Environment (Windows PE), Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows

8 operating systems, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments.

What’s New in This Release

The new features for this release include:

• Support for configuring the Advanced battery charging. See --advbatterychargecfg.

• Support for using the battery power in laptops during the peak power usage. See --peakshiftcfg.

• Support for configuring the Peak Shift battery threshold values. See --peakshiftbatterythreshold.

• Support for configuring the timeout value for Intel Rapid Start Technology (IRST) mode. See --irsttimer.

• Support for entering the Option ROM Configuration screens using hotkeys during boot. See --

oromkeyboardaccess.

• Support for installing Windows operating system on client systems with more than one operating system. See --

optionalbootsequence.

• Support for configuring the onscreen display (OSD) buttons on all All-In-One systems. See --onscreenbuttons.

• Support for configuring the Dock Display Port 1 Video Source. See --dockdisplayport1vs.

• Support for using Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) radio control switch on the dock. See --wirelesswitchwigigctrl.

• Support for configuring the memory mapped IO above 4GB. See --mmioabove4gb.

• Support for configuring the Switchable Graphics technology. See --switchablegraphics.

• Support for configuring the Block S3 sleep state. See --blocks3.

• Support for using network cards in preinstallation environment. See --uefinwstack.

• Support for waking the system to boot to PXE. See --wakeonlan.

• Support for Advanced System Management (ASM) for:

– Setting the non-critical threshold values for voltage, current, and temperature probes.

– Displaying the characteristics of power supply, voltage, current, temperature, and cooling device

probes.

– Blinking the LED of the Power Supply Units.

NOTE: For more information, see Advanced System Management.

• Support for the following only in CLI:

– Displaying the hard disk drive (HDD) information. See --hddinfo.

– Setting and clearing password for all the HDDs. See --hddpwd.