Dell EMS- User Manual

Administrator Guide 7 2 Requirements Client hardware and software requirements are provided in this chapter. Ensure that the deployment environment meets the requirements before continuing with deployment tasks. Hardware The following table details supported hardware. NOTE: The system disk must be p...

Administrator Guide 9 3 Tasks Install/Upgrade Dell Data Protection | Enterprise Edition for Mac This section guides you through the Dell Data Protection | Enterprise Edition for Mac installation/upgrade and activation process.There are two methods to install/upgrade Dell Data Protection | Enterprise...

Administrator Guide 11 Activate Dell Data Protection | Enterprise Edition for Mac The activation process associates network user accounts in the Dell Enterprise Server to the Mac computer and retrieves each account’s security policies, sends inventory and status updates, enables recovery workflows, ...

Administrator Guide 15 Enable Encryption NOTE: Only Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) volumes and system disks that are partitioned with the GUID Partition Table (GPT) partition scheme are supported for encryption. Use this process to enable encryption on a client computer if encryption was not enabled ...

16 Administrator Guide View Encryption Policy and Status You can view the encryption policy and status on the local computer or in the Dell Remote Management Console. View Policy and Status on the Local Computer To view encryption policy and encryption status on the local computer, follow the steps ...

Color Description Green Encrypted portion Red Not encrypted portion Yellow Portion being re-encryptedFor example, by a change in encryption algorithms. The data is still secure. It is just transitioning to a different type of encryption. Administrator Guide 21 The Encryption pane includes all volume...

22 Administrator Guide To view effective polices, in the Actions area, click View Effective Policies. 7 Click the Security Policies tab. The following tasks can be completed from this tab: Expand the types of policies as desired. Change individual policies as desired. When finished, click Save. In t...

Administrator Guide 23 Mount Volume Prerequisites • An unencrypted external recovery volume or computer that will be running the recovery utility• A FireWire cable• The Device ID/Unique ID of the computer targeted for recovery - In most cases, you can find the computer targeted for recovery in the D...

24 Administrator Guide 10 Select the volume or drive that needs recovery and click Continue. Selecting the drive will recover all volumes on the drive at once. The file selector window displays. 11 Select the recovery bundle (saved in step 4 ) and click Open. The Select Recovery Operation dialog dis...

Administrator Guide 25 Boot the computer targeted for recovery into Target Disk Mode. You can accomplish this by either launching the Startup Disk pane in System Preferences and clicking Target Disk Mode, or by holding down the T key while you restart this computer. NOTE: Firmware password protectio...

Administrator Guide 27 Uninstall Dell Data Protection | Enterprise Edition for Mac The client software may be uninstalled by running the Uninstall Dell Data Protection application. To uninstall the client software, follow the steps below. NOTE: Before running the uninstall application, the disk must...

Administrator Guide 29 4 Activation as Administrator The Client Tool offers the administrator new methods for activating the client software on a Mac computer and examining the client software. Two methods of activation are available: • Activation using Administrator credentials• Temporary activatio...

Administrator Guide 37 D Appendix D Client Tool The Client Tool is a shell command that runs on a Mac endpoint. It is used to activate the client from a remote location or to run a script through a remote management utility. As administrator, you can activate a client and do the following: • Activat...

38 Administrator Guide * The Client tool’s account is used for the localAccount unless another is specified. The Plist Option The -plist option prints the results of the command with which it is combined. It follows the command and must appear prior to its arguments to make the results print as a pl...