Users Guide

Contents
1 Introduction..................................................................................................................... 5
What’s new in this release.................................................................................................................................................. 5
Other documents you may need.........................................................................................................................................6
Accessing documents from Dell support site................................................................................................................ 7
2 Dell Command | Congure graphical user interface.........................................................8
Accessing Dell Command | Congure within Microsoft Windows system........................................................................... 8
Accessing Dell Command | Congure within Linux............................................................................................................. 8
Files and folders of Dell Command | Congure .................................................................................................................. 8
Accessing the Dell Command | Congure GUI....................................................................................................................8
Creating a BIOS package using the GUI............................................................................................................................. 9
Conguration options................................................................................................................................................... 9
Conguring the setup, system, and hard disk drive passwords.................................................................................... 11
Clearing setup, system and hard disk drive passwords.................................................................................................11
Password protection screen.........................................................................................................................................11
Conguring the autoon option..................................................................................................................................... 11
Conguring the bootorder option................................................................................................................................ 12
Conguring the primarybatterycfg option................................................................................................................... 13
Conguring the advbatterychargecfg option...............................................................................................................14
Conguring the peakshiftcfg option............................................................................................................................14
Conguring the keyboardbacklightcolor option........................................................................................................... 15
Advanced System Management....................................................................................................................................... 16
Setting the noncritical threshold values.......................................................................................................................16
BIOS option validation....................................................................................................................................................... 17
Validating a multiplatform package or saved package..................................................................................................17
Validating a local system package................................................................................................................................17
Exporting the BIOS conguration......................................................................................................................................17
Exporting the SCE (.EXE) le......................................................................................................................................17
Exporting the conguration without setting values..................................................................................................... 18
Target system conguration..............................................................................................................................................18
Applying a INI or CCTK le..........................................................................................................................................18
Applying a shell script on Linux....................................................................................................................................19
Applying a SCE le......................................................................................................................................................19
Log details in Package History...........................................................................................................................................19
Viewing a log le.........................................................................................................................................................20
Deleting log details..................................................................................................................................................... 20
Providing feedback on Dell Command | Congure .....................................................................................................20
3 Troubleshooting............................................................................................................. 21
Running Dell Command | Congure displays error messages.............................................................................................21
Running Dell Command | Congure on 32-bit and 64-bit Windows supported system......................................................21
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