Discovering and configuring Bios of new computers

Who is the manufacturer of your computers?

Dell, HP, IBM, etc...

Dell is the manufacturer and the Dell Client Management Suite is installed.

is not support WOL and PXE?
or it's not enabled by default?

what is the machine type?
because it's very weird what you saying...

On a new pc you have to set PXE boot first. That is the only way to get the PC in DS without first loading the client.
Thre is no other discovery method.
Regards
Erik
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Dell laptops Latitude D505, D510, D520, D530 and D830.
Dell desktops Optiplex GX270, GX280, GX520, 745 and 755.

No server.

Regards,
Philippe

I know that, in the Dell factory, they are able to do it : they just connect the power and the network cables. The machines are then started, the Bios updated and configured and the OS loaded.

Is someone know the way they do it?

Perhaps they use a tool not woming from Altiris

Regards
Philippe

The Bios support WOL and PWE, but is not enabled by default.

I'd like to enable it by Altitis (I already do it for machines in DS or NS).

But, with new machines, I can't do it because they are not in DS and I would like to find a way to do it without entering manually the machine in DS.

Philippe

The fastest and easy way is ask to DELL to configure in advance the WOL and PXE options. But if you have already received all pc's , you will have to do manually.

Thank you for your replies guys.

Have a nice day

Philippe