Lenovo ThinkStation C20x Deployment Manual

Brand: Lenovo

Model: ThinkStation C20x

Type: Deployment Manual

This manual is also suitable for

Lenovo BIOS

Windows

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Instrumentation

Deployment Guide for

Workstations (S20/D20/C20)

Date: September 2010

FirstEdition (September2010)

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©CopyrightLenovo2010. Allrightsreserved.

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Contents

Preface....................................................................................................................................III

Chapter 1. Overview ............................................................................................................... 1

Using Windows Management Instrumentation................................................................................................. 1

Key benefits ..................................................................................................................................................... 1

Function................................................................................................................................................... 2

Environment ............................................................................................................................................ 2

Interface................................................................................................................................................... 2

Supported computers ....................................................................................................................................... 2

Chapter 2. Script Classes and Parameter ............................................................................ 3

Configuring BIOS settings .............................................................................................................................. 3

Return types...................................................................................................................................................... 3

Password Authentication.................................................................................................................................4

Available BIOS setting names ........................................................................................................................ 4

Chapter 3. Typical Usage.......................................................................................................11

Listing current BIOS settings.........................................................................................................................11

Changing BIOS settings .................................................................................................................................11

Changing the boot order .................................................................................................................................11

Restoring default settings...............................................................................................................................12

Limitations.......................................................................................................................................................12

Chapter 4. Security.................................................................................................................13

Appendix A. Sample Visual Basic scripts for configuring BIOS settings..........................15

Restore default settings................................................................................................................................... 15

List all BIOS settings on the local computer ..................................................................................................16

Set a single BIOS setting on the local computer............................................................................................. 16

Set a single BIOS setting on the local computer if a Administration password exists .................................... 17

List all BIOS settings on the remote computer ............................................................................................... 18

Set a single BIOS setting on a remote computer............................................................................................. 18

Set a single BIOS setting on a remote computer when a Administrator password exists ............................... 19

Appendix B. Notices ..............................................................................................................22

Trademarks.....................................................................................................................................................23

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Preface

Thepurposeof thisguideistoexplainhowtomodifyBIOS

settingsandbootorderusingWindowsManagement

Instrumentation(WMI)throughtheLenovoclient‐management

interface.ThisguideisintendedforskilledITadministratorswho

are familiarwithconfiguringBIOSsettingson computersintheir

organizations.



Thisguideis providedinaZIPfilepackagethatcontainsthis

deploymentguideaswellasVisualBasicsamplescriptstouse

whenconfiguringBIOSsettings.



Thisdeploymentguideis developedforITprofessionalstoassist

withtheuniquechallengesthat theyencounter.If youhave

suggestionsorcomments,communicatewithyourLenovo

®

authorizedrepresentative.Tolearnmoreaboutthetechnologiesthat

canhelpyoulowerthetotalcostof ownershipandtocheckfor

periodicupdatestothisguide,visitthefollowingWebsite:

www.lenovo.com/support

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Chapter 1. Overview

ITadministratorsarealwayslookingforeasierwaysto manage

clientcomputerBIOSsettings,whichincludehardwaresettings

andbootorder.TheLenovoBIOSWMIinterfaceprovidesa

simplifiedwaytochangethesesettings.Lenovohasdevelopeda

BIOSinterfacethatcanbemanipulatedthroughWindows

ManagementInstrumentation(WMI).TheLenovo

BIOSWMI

interfaceenablesITadministratorstomakequeriesoncurrent

BIOSsettings,restoresettingstotheirfactorydefaults,change

singlesettings,andmodifythebootordereitherat client

computersorremotely.

Using Windows Management Instrumentation

WMIisprovidedasastandardfeatureinmostWindows

®

operating

systems.Itprovidesa powerfulsetof functions,suchas

query‐basedinformationretrievalandeventnotification,which

enablesuserstomanagebothlocalandremotecomputers.The

LenovoBIOSWMIinterfaceextendsthecapabilitiesof WMIto

allowmanagementofBIOSsettings.



ThefollowingillustrationshowshowWMIcanbeusedtoaccess

LenovoBIOSsettings.



WMIusesWindowsScriptHost(WSH)to interpretscripts.Youcan

writeyourscriptsineitherWindowsVisualBasicScriptingEdition

(VBScript)orJavaScript.

Key benefits

TheLenovoBIOSWMIinterfaceprovidesthefollowingbenefits:

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Function

·FlexibleBIOSconfiguration,includingtheabilitytochangea

singleBIOSsettingorall BIOSsettings

·NodependencyonaspecificBIOSlevel

Environment

·Remoteorlocalcapabilities

·Supportofunattendedoperations

·Nosoftwareinstallation,includingmanagedobjectformat(MOF),

required

·ReplacesDOS‐basedBIOSconfigurationtools

Interface

·Easyto adoptforvariousmanagementservers

·ReplacescurrentSMIinterface

·Commoninterfacefordifferentproducts

Supported computers

BIOSsetupthroughWMIis supportedonthefollowingnew

Think

stationproductsonly:



·Think

station S20/C20/D20

Thinkstation S20 requires BIOS version 60KT40A or later

Thinkstation C20/C20x/D20 requires BIOS version 61KT44A or later

Chapter 2. Script Classes and Parameter

ThischaptercontainsWMIimplementationdetailsforconfiguring

BIOSsettings.



Configuring BIOS settings

ThefollowinginterfacedetailscanbeusedtoaccessLenovoBIOS

settings.

∙Namespace:ʺ\root\WMIʺ

∙BaseClass:ʺLenovo_BIOSElementʺ

∙Interfacedetails(seeTable1)

Table 1. Interface Details

ClassName Type Parameter/Return Example

Lenovo_BiosSetting Query CurrentSetting:ʺItem,Valueʺ ʺWakeOnLAN,

Lenovo_SetBiosSetting Method ʺItem,Value,ʺ ʺWakeOnLAN,Disabled,”

Lenovo_SaveBiosSetting Method ʺPassword,Encoding,KbdLang,ʺ

ʺpswd,ascii,us,ʺ

Lenovo_DiscardBiosSetting Method ʺ,ʺ

ʺ,ʺ

Lenovo_LoadBiosSetting Method ʺ,ʺ

ʺ,ʺ

Return types

Youwill receiveoneof thefollowingreturntypes aftermakingchangesto

BIOSsettings:

Table 2. Return Types

ReturnType Description

Success Operationcompletedsuccessfully.

NotSupported Thefeatureisnotsupportedonthissystem.

InvalidParameter Theitemorvalueprovidedisnotvalid.

AccessDenied

Thechangecouldnotbemadeduetoanauthenticationproblem.

Ifasupervisorpasswordexists,thecorrectsupervisorpassword

mustbeprovided.

System Busy BIOS changes have already been made that neet to be

committed. Reboot the system and try again.

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Password Authentication

If an Administrator password is already set, you must specify that

administratorpasswordbeforeyoucanchangeanyBIOSsettings.

Theformatforpasswordparametersisʺabc,ascii,usʺwith

descriptionsinTable3.

Table 3. Password parameters format, password authentication

Parameter Description

Possibleselections

Parameter1 Currentpassword

·“abc”‐rawasciicharacter

·“1e302e”–scancode

Parameter2 Passwordencoding

·“ascii”

·“scancode”

Parameter3 Keyboardlanguages

(validonlyifencodingis″ascii″)

·″us″‐EnglishUS,English,French‐Canadian,

Italian,Japanese,Korean,Norwegian,Polish,

Portuguese,Spanish‐European,

Spanish‐LatinAmerican,Swiss,Turkish

·″fr″‐French‐European,Belgian

·″gr″‐German,Czech,Slovak,Slovenian

Available BIOS setting names

SomeBIOSsettingsaredependentonthepresenceofcertainhardware

features.Settingsmightvaryondifferentcomputers.

Notes:

1. BIOS settings and values are case sensitive.

2. "Load Defaults" will only change the values for BIOS

settings that can be changed via the WMI interface.



Table 4. List of Available BIOS settings for S20

Item Name Selection Name

Load

"Legacy Diskette A" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Serial Port A" "Disabled", "Enabled", "Automatic" Y

"Serial A Base IO Address" "3F8", "2F8", "3E8", "2E8" Y

"Serial A Interrupt" "IRQ3", "IRQ4" Y

"Serial Port B" "Disabled", "Enabled", "Automatic" Y

"Serial B Base IO Address" "3F8", "2F8", "3E8", "2E8" Y

"Serial B Interrupt" "IRQ3", "IRQ4" Y

"USB Support" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"USB Front Ports" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"USB Card Reader" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

“Serial ATA” “Disabled”, “Enabled Y

"Native Mode Operation" "Automatic", "Serial ATA" Y

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"Sata Disk Pre-Delay" "Disabled", "3 Seconds", "6 Seconds",

"9 Seconds", "12 Seconds", "15 Seconds",

"21 Seconds", "30 Seconds"

"Sata Mode Selection" "IDE", "AHCI", "RAID" Y

"eSata Port" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Audio Support" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"System Board Ethernet" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"PXE Boot Agent" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"PCI Parity" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Plug and Play Operating System" "No", "Yes" Y

"Default Primary Video Adapter" "Auto", "PCI" Y

"Turbo Mode" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Active Processors" "Max. Cores", "One Core" Y

"HyperThreading" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Execute Disable Bit" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Intel Virtualization Technology" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Fan Acoustics" "Normal", "Quiet", "High" Y

"Intel VT for Directed I/O (VT-d)" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"EIST (GV3) & C State" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"EIST (GV3)" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"CPU C State" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"After Power Loss" "Stay Off", "Last State", "Power On" Y

"EuP lot 6" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Wake on LAN" "Disabled", "Automatic", "Primary" Y

"PCI Wake Up" "Disabled", "Automatic", "Primary" Y

"PCI Modem Ring Detect" "Disabled", "Automatic", "Primary" Y

"Serial Port A Ring Detect" "Disabled", "Automatic", "Primary" Y

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"Primary Startup Sequence",

"Automatic Startup Sequence",

"Error Startup Sequence",

"Manufacturing Startup Sequence"

"Legacy Diskette A",

"IDE 0",

"ESATA",

"IDE 1",

"IDE 2",

"ESATA C20",

"IDE 3",

"IDE 4",

"IDE CDROM 0",

"IDE CDROM 1",

"IDE CDROM 2",

"USB FDD",

"USB HDD",

"USB KEY",

"USB CDROM",

"PCI BEV 0",

"PCI LAN 0",

"PCI BEV 1",

"PCI LAN 1",

"PCI BEV 2",

"PCI BEV 3",

"PCI BEV 4",

"PCI SCSI",

"SCSI 0",

"SCSI 1",

"SCSI 2",

"SCSI 3",

"SCSI 4",

"SCSI 5",

"Nothing Here"

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Table 5. List of Available BIOS settings for D20/C20X

Item Name Selection Name

Load

"Legacy Diskette A" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Serial Port A" "Disabled", "Enabled", "Automatic" Y

"Serial A Base IO Address" "3F8", "2F8", "3E8", "2E8" Y

"Serial A Interrupt" "IRQ3", "IRQ4" Y

"Serial Port B" "Disabled", "Enabled", "Automatic" Y

"Serial B Base IO Address" "3F8", "2F8", "3E8", "2E8" Y

"Serial B Interrupt" "IRQ3", "IRQ4" Y

"USB Support" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"USB Front Ports" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"USB Card Reader" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"ICH SATA" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

“Serial ATA” “Disabled”, “Enabled Y

"Native Mode Operation" "Automatic", "Serial ATA" Y

"Sata Disk Pre-Delay" "Disabled", "3 Seconds", "6 Seconds",

"9 Seconds", "12 Seconds", "15 Seconds",

"21 Seconds", "30 Seconds"

"Sata Mode Selection" "IDE", "AHCI", Y

"eSata Port" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Marvell SATA/SAS Controller" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Audio Support" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"System Board Ethernet" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"PXE Boot Agent" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"System Board Ethernet #2" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"PXE Boot Agent #2" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"PCI Parity" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Plug and Play Operating System" "No", "Yes" Y

"Default Primary Video Adapter" "Auto", "PCI" Y

"Turbo Mode" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Active Processors" "Max. Cores", "One Core" Y

"HyperThreading" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Execute Disable Bit" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Intel Virtualization Technology" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"PCIe Peer to Peer Transactions" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"NUMA Aware" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Fan Acoustics" "Normal", "Quiet", "High" Y

"Intel VT for Directed I/O (VT-d)" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"EIST (GV3) & C State" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"EIST (GV3)" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"CPU C State" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"After Power Loss" "Stay Off", "Last State", "Power On" Y

"EuP lot 6" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Wake on LAN" "Disabled", "Automatic", "Primary" Y

"PCI Wake Up" "Disabled", "Automatic", "Primary" Y

"PCI Modem Ring Detect" "Disabled", "Automatic", "Primary" Y

"Serial Port A Ring Detect" "Disabled", "Automatic", "Primary" Y

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"Primary Startup Sequence",

"Automatic Startup Sequence",

"Error Startup Sequence",

"Manufacturing Startup Sequence"

"Legacy Diskette A",

"IDE 0",

"ESATA",

"IDE 1",

"IDE 2",

"ESATA C20",

"IDE 3",

"IDE 4",

"IDE CDROM 0",

"IDE CDROM 1",

"IDE CDROM 2",

"USB FDD",

"USB HDD",

"USB KEY",

"USB CDROM",

"PCI BEV 0",

"PCI LAN 0",

"PCI BEV 1",

"PCI LAN 1",

"PCI BEV 2",

"PCI BEV 3",

"PCI BEV 4",

"PCI SCSI",

"SCSI 0",

"SCSI 1",

"SCSI 2",

"SCSI 3",

"SCSI 4",

"SCSI 5",

"Nothing Here"

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Table 6. List of available BIOS settings for C20

Item Name

Selection Name

Load

"Legacy Diskette A" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Serial A Interrupt" "IRQ3", "IRQ4" Y

"USB Support" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"USB Front Ports" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"USB Card Reader" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"ICH SATA" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Native Mode Operation" "Automatic", "Serial ATA" Y

"Sata Disk Pre-Delay" "Disabled", "3 Seconds", "6 Seconds",

"9 Seconds", "12 Seconds", "15 Seconds",

"21 Seconds", "30 Seconds"

"Sata Mode Selection" "IDE", "AHCI", "RAID" Y

"eSata Port" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Marvell SATA/SAS Controller" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Audio Support" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"System Board Ethernet" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"PXE Boot Agent" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"System Board Ethernet #2" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"PXE Boot Agent #2" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"PCI Parity" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Plug and Play Operating System" "No", "Yes" Y

"Default Primary Video Adapter" "Auto", "PCI" Y

"Turbo Mode" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Active Processors" "Max. Cores", "One Core" Y

"HyperThreading" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Execute Disable Bit" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Intel Virtualization Technology" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"PCIe Peer to Peer Transactions" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"NUMA Aware" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Fan Acoustics" "Normal", "Quiet", "High" Y

"Intel VT for Directed I/O (VT-d)" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"EIST (GV3) & C State" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"EIST (GV3)" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"CPU C State" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"After Power Loss" "Stay Off", "Last State", "Power On" Y

"EuP lot 6" “Disabled”, “Enabled” Y

"Wake on LAN" "Disabled", "Automatic", "Primary" Y

"PCI Wake Up" "Disabled", "Automatic", "Primary" Y

"PCI Modem Ring Detect" "Disabled", "Automatic", "Primary" Y

"Serial Port A Ring Detect" "Disabled", "Automatic", "Primary" Y

"Primary Startup Sequence",

"Automatic Startup Sequence",

"Error Startup Sequence",

"Manufacturing Startup Sequence"

"Legacy Diskette A",

"IDE 0",

"ESATA",

"IDE 1",

"IDE 2",

"ESATA C20",

"IDE 3",

"IDE 4",

"IDE CDROM 0",

"IDE CDROM 1",

"IDE CDROM 2",

"USB FDD",

"USB HDD",

"USB KEY",

"USB CDROM",

"PCI BEV 0",

"PCI LAN 0",

"PCI BEV 1",

"PCI LAN 1",

"PCI BEV 2",

"PCI BEV 3",

"PCI BEV 4",

"PCI SCSI",

"SCSI 0",

"SCSI 1",

"SCSI 2",

"SCSI 3",

"SCSI 4",

"SCSI 5",

"Nothing Here"

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Chapter 3. Typical Usage

Through WMI, you can configure BIOS settings in the

followingways:

·ListBIOSsettings

·ChangeBIOSsettings

·Changethebootorder(sometimesreferredtoasthestartup

sequence)

·LoaddefaultBIOSsettings

Listing current BIOS settings

For a list of all available BIOS settings that can be changed

through WMI on a specific computer, use the

Lenovo_BiosSetting class (see “List all BIOS settings on the

localcomputer”onpage12and“ListallBIOSsettingsonthe

remotecomputer”onpage14forsamplescripts).



SeeTable4onpage4foralistofavailableBIOSsettings.

Changing BIOS settings

TochangeaBIOSsetting,completethefollowingsteps:

1.Identify the BIOS setting you want to change using the

Lenovo_BiosSetting class (see “List all BIOS settings on the local

computer” on page 12 and “List all BIOS settings on the remote

computer”onpage14forsamplescripts).

2.Identifythevaluetowhichthesettingwillbechanged.



Note: See Table 4 on page 4 for a list of available values for a

particularsetting.

3.Change the BIOS setting to the desired value using the

Lenovo_SetBiosSetting class, then use the Lenovo_SaveBiosSetting

classto save the settings (see“Set a singleBIOS setting on the local

computer” on page 12 and “Set a single BIOS setting on a remote

computer”onpage14forsamplescripts).



Note:BIOSsettingsandvaluesarecasesensitive.



After making changes to the BIOS settings, you must reboot the

computerbeforethechangeswilltakeeffect.

Changing the Startup Sequence

Tochangethestartup sequqence,completethe foll\owingsteps:

1. Determine

the current setting for "StartupSequence" by using

Lenovo BIOS Windows Management Instrumentation Interface Deployment Guide for Workstations 12

Lenovo_BiosSettingclass(see “Listall BIOSsettings onthelocal

computer”on page 12 and“Listall BIOSsettingson theremote

computer”onpage14forsamplescripts).

2. To set a new boot order, use the Lenovo_SetBiosSetting class,

then use the Lenovo_SaveBiosSetting class to save the settings

(see“SetasingleBIOSsettingonthelocalcomputer”onpage12

and“SetasingleBIOSsettingonaremotecomputer”onpage14

for sample scripts). Specify a new boot order by

listingthe

 boot

devices in order, separated by colons. Devices that are not

specified are excluded from the boot order. In the following

example, the CD drive 0 is the first boot device and hard disk

drive0 is thesecondstartupdevice.

AHCI_CD:AHCI_HDD

Restoring default settings

TorestoredefaultBIOSsettings,usetheLenovo_LoadDefaultSettingsclass,

and then use the Lenovo_SaveBiosSettings class to save the BIOS changes

(seesamplescripts).

Limitations

ThefollowingWMIlimitationsexistforBIOSsetup:



·Passwordsettingandchangingarenotsupported.

Chapter 4. Security

WMI‐basedadministrationscriptsoperatingoveraremoteconnectionsend

dataoverthenetworkincleartextbydefault.Youcanenhancesecurityby

modifying WMI‐based administration scripts to establish an encrypted

remoteconnectionasfollows:

1.Setanimpersonationlevelof″impersonate″

2.Setanauthenticationlevelof″pktPrivacy

″



See Appendix A, “Sample Visual Basic scripts for configuring BIOS

settings,” on page 11 for sample scripts used to implement WMI‐based

administrationscriptsthatincludetheseparametersforencryption.

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