Dell Precision M6500 Administrator's Guide

Dell™ Latitude ON™ Flash Remote Management IT Administrator's Guide

Overview Writing XML Configuration Files Preparing Self-Extracting (SFX) Files for Software Dispatch Upgrading Latitude ON Flash to Clients Remotely Reference A: XML Schema for Latitude ON Flash

NOTE: Latitude ON and Precision ON are used interchangeably depending upon the system. In this document, we use the term Latitude ON to refer to both the Latitude ON and Precision ON features.

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Initial release: October 2009

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Overview

This document provides information about the following Latitude ON Flash remote management features:

Pushing Latitude ON Flash updates to the users Enforcing periodic password updates Choosing the desired configuration settings

The general process for remotely configuring the settings of your Latitude ON Flash is shown below.

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Writing XML Configuration Files

Latitude ON Flash allows you to remotely configure the settings using XML. This section of the document provides a few sample XML codes for remote configuration.

NOTE: You must write the XML commands using a text editor before you start configuring Latitude ON Flash.

ChangeAllUserPassword.xml

The following code allows you to ensure that all the users change their passwords at first log in, after the remote settings are dispatched:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <cmdstore xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation=" DVMRemoteCmd.xsd"> <cmd> <allUser action="changeUser"></allUser> </cmd> </cmdstore>

ChangeUserPassword.xml

The following code allows a specific user to change his/her password:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <cmdstore xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation=" DVMRemoteCmd.xsd"> <cmd> <allUser action="changeUser"></allUser> </cmd> </cmdstore>

If the statement <singleUser action="changePassword" user="User"> above is changed to <singleUser action="changePassword" user="User1">, then the user of the User1 account will be asked to change his password the next time he logs into the system.

DeleteAllUsers.xml

The following code deletes all users (except the default user):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <cmdstore xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation=" DVMRemoteCmd.xsd"> <cmd> <allUser action="deleteUser"></allUser> </cmd> </cmdstore>

DeleteUser.xml

The following code deletes a specific user account (User):