Users Guide

• Continue to the next client, but stop processing this client on errors — The application stops applying BIOS settings to the
client with the error, and moves on to the other selected clients.
• Reboot client after applying changes
5 Click Next.
The Select Clients tab is displayed.
6 Search for client systems to which you want to apply the BIOS settings.
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From the Available clients list select the client systems you want to manage and click the button to move your selected systems or
press the button to move all the discovered Dell clients into the Selected clients list.
8 Click Next.
The Schedule Task tab is displayed.
9 You can either choose to apply the changes immediately, or schedule them to be applied later later.
Depending on the schedule, select one of the following options:
• Run now — the BIOS setting conguration is immediately applied and displays the Running status in the Task Queue.
• Run At — the BIOS setting conguration is queued in the Task Queue.
NOTE: You can launch the Task Queue to view the list of completed and pending tasks.
NOTE: If the Dell client systems are not connected to the network, run the task again.
10 Provide a brief description of the BIOS attribute changes you are applying and click Next.
The Summary tab is displayed.
11 Click Finish.
The Task Queue window opens, and depending on how you scheduled the task, the task starts running immediately, or is queued to
run at a later time.
Setting BIOS Passwords
The feature allows you to manage your BIOS passwords, set passwords, clear passwords, or change the length requirements for the
passwords.
1 Launch Dell Command | Intel vPro Out of Band.
For more information, see Launching Dell Command | Intel vPro Out of Band.
2 Click Client Conguration > BIOS Passwords.
The BIOS Passwords tab is displayed.
3 Select one of the following options:
• Clear — clear either the Admin or System password.
NOTE
: Clear the System password before clearing the Admin password
• Set — enter and conrm the Admin or System password.
NOTE
: Client systems have to reboot after setting the Admin or System passwords.
• Length — you can specify the minimum and maximum length for the Admin and System password.
4 If you want the Task execution to continue to subsequent clients systems when an error occurs, select the Continue on error option.
Otherwise, Task execution stops on the rst client system where an error is encountered
5 If you want to reboot after applying changes select the Reboot after applying changes option.
6 Click Next.
The Select Clients tab is displayed.
7 Search for client systems to which you want to apply the Boot Order changes to.
8 From the Available clients list select the client systems you want to manage and click the button to move your selected systems or
press the button to move all the discovered Dell clients into the Selected clients list.
9 Click Next.
The Schedule Task tab is displayed.
10 You can either choose to apply the password changes immediately or schedule it to run later.
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Using Dell Command | Intel vPro Out of Band