Reference Guide

16 Command Line Interface
Using Bootable Image
To run CCTK commands:
1
Burn a CD with the CCTK ISO image. For more information, see Dell
Client Configuration Toolkit Quick Installation Guide
.
2 Boot the system that you want to configure from the CD.
3 Navigate to the cctk\x86 or cctk\x86_64 directory.
4 Run the CCTK commands. For more details on CCTK commands, see
Client Configuration Toolkit Options.
Command Syntax Overview
Syntax refers to the way a command and its parameters are entered. CLI
commands can be arranged in any order in a command line instance as long
as they conform to the basic command line syntax.
Command Line Syntax
The general usage models of the CCTK utilities are as follows:
CCTK --option1=[arg1]
or
cctk --option1=[arg1]...--optionN=[argN]
NOTE: Some of the options in CCTK are followed by an asterisk. You can use such
options only for reporting purposes and cannot use the reporting options with set
options.
Table 2-1 lists the generic command line characters and arguments present in
the command line options with a short description of these characters.
Table 2-1. Command Line Syntax
Element Description
- Indicates single-character options with a single hyphen(-).
-- Indicates multi-character options with two hyphens (--).
utilname Indicates the generic designation for a CCTK utility name.
-o Indicates the generic single-character designation for an option.