Users Guide

Introduction

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

systems such as OptiPlex, Latitude, and Dell Precision workstation. 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

. You can use CCTK in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

environments and Microsoft Windows Pre-installation Environment (Windows PE), and on the Microsoft Windows XP,

Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 operating systems.

What’s New in This Release

The new features for this release include:

• Support for configuring the Advanced battery charging using advbatterychargecfg. See Configuring Advanced

Battery Charging.

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

Peak Shift Battery Charging.

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

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

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

oromkeyboardaccess.

• Support for installing Windows operating system on client systems with more than one operating system using

optionalbootsequence.

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

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

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

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

• Support for configuring the Switchable Graphics technology using switchablegraphics.

• Support for configuring the Block S3 sleep state using blocks3.

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

• Support for waking the system to boot to PXE using 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 using hddinfo.

– Setting and clearing password for all the HDDs using hddpwd.