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12 Administrator Guide

Command Line Installation/Upgrade

To install the client software using the command line, follow the steps below. If you intend to use Boot Camp on

encrypted Mac computers or intend to use a version of operating system that is not yet fully supported by

Dell

, you must

configure your installation to not use firmware password protection (you must modify the

com.dell.ddp.plist

as shown in

step 3

below.)

Open the Dell-Data-Protection-<version>.dmg file located in the Dell installation media.

Copy the

Install

Dell Data Protection

package and the

com.dell.ddp.plist

file to the local drive.

Open the .plist file and edit the placeholder values as follows:

NOTE: Apple often releases new versions of operating systems in between releases of Dell Data Protection | Enterprise Edition for Mac. To

support as many customers as possible, Dell allows a modification of the.plist file to support these cases. As soon as Apple releases a

new version, Dell begins testing these versions to ensure that they are compatible with Dell Data Protection | Enterprise Edition for

Mac.

NOTE: When the FirmwarePasswordMode key option is set to Optional, it only disables client software’s enforcement of firmware password

protection. It does not remove any existing firmware password protection. After these steps are complete, the installation is finished,

and the computer restarts, you can remove any existing firmware password using the Mac OS X Firmware Password Utility.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<dict>

<key>AllowInstallWithoutConnectivity</key>

<false/> [Do not modify]

<key>AllowInstallerConfigModification</key>

<true/> [Do not modify]

<key>AllowedOSVersions</key> [AllowedOSVersions is not present in the default .plist file, it must be added to

the file. Add from <key> through </array> to allow a newer version of operating system to be used. See Note

above.]

<array>

<string>10.<x.x></string> [Operating system version]

</array>

<key>RemoveRecoveryPartition</key

<true/> [On computers running Lion, and then overwritten by a previous Mac OS (such as Snow Leopard), the

operating system leaves the Lion Recovery partition on the drive. Computers in this state fail to start encryption

due to the volume failing Dell drive verification testing. When setting this value to True, on reboot of the computer,

the Lion recovery partition will be removed, the disk verification will be successful, and encryption can begin.]

<key>DeviceServers</key>

<array>

<dict>

<string>deviceserver.organization.com</string> [Replace this value with your Dell Device Server

URL]

[Beginning in v8.0, the default port number is 8443. However, port number 8081

will still allow activations. In general, if your Enterprise Server is v8.0 or later, use port 8443. If your Enterprise Server is

pre-v8.0, use port 8081.]

<key>UseSSL</key>

<true/> [We recommend a true value]

</dict>

</array>