Administrator Guide
9 Configuring Remote Wake-Up Using Dell Client Command Suite
2 Auto Power ON
The Auto-Power-ON BIOS feature is used to automatically power on a system for selected days/times.
A system which is in shutdown state connected with AC power responds to an RTC alarm based on the
system’s time/date.
Note: System with battery power does not respond to this alarm.
This feature applies to systems which are either in S4 state (Hibernate) or S5 state (Power Off). The Auto
Power On feature supports the following values:
Disabled - The system does not wake up at the selected time.
Every Day - The system wakes up every day (Sunday to Saturday) at the selected time.
Weekdays - The system wakes up from Monday to Friday at the selected time.
Select Days -The system wakes up only on selected days at the selected time.
The Auto Power On feature has options to set the hour and minute (am/pm) also. For example – If Select
Days option is selected for Auto Power On with Mondays and Saturdays only enabled and the time set is
6:00am, then system wakes up only on Mondays and Saturdays at 6:00am. If a system is already powered
on (including Standby) and the RTC alarm time is configured, then there are no actions performed.
2.1 Using Dell Command | Configure
Dell Command | Configure provides the following options to configure the Auto Power ON BIOS feature:
Autoonhr - To set the value of hour which can range from 0 to 23.
autoonmn - To set the value of minute which can range from 0 to 59.
autoon - To set the days. This option has possible values such as ‘disable’, ‘everyday’, ‘selectdays’
and ‘weekdays’.
If the user wants to select ‘selectdays’ as value, particular days must also be given in argument.
To select Mondays and Saturdays as only days when user want to wake up the system, first ‘Auto On’ value
must be selected as ‘SelectDays’.
2.1.1 Using Command Line
The following figure illustrates the command for setting the autoon option as ‘selectdays’.
Setting ‘autoon’ as ‘selectdays’ (Monday and Saturday)
To select time as 11:45PM, the ‘AutoOnHr’ value should be given as 23 and the ‘AutoOnMn’ value should be
given as 45.