Users Guide

Option Suboptions Description

idrac8cfg.ini Use the existing idrac8cfg.ini le to congure

iDRAC8. For a similar example, see <Edit

syscfg.ini>.

iDRAC Conguration (iDRAC9) <Create conguration le> For more information about the BIOS option,

see <Create conguration le>.

<Import conguration le> For more information about the BIOS option,

see <Import conguration le>.

idrac9cfg.ini Use the existing idrac9cfg.ini le to congure

iDRAC9. For a similar example, see <Edit

syscfg.ini>.

The hardware component sequences are displayed in the Task Sequence Editor after conguring the system BIOS, RAID, DRAC, and

iDRAC.

Variable Replacement

The Variable Replacement tab allows you to use and congure task variables like:

• System Variables

• Task Sequence Variables

• Machine Variables

• Collection Variables

Conguring Variable Replacement tab options

1 Select one of the following options under the Action to take when a variable is unintialized or the value is null or blank section:

Use a null/blank

value

Uses a variable that has not been initialized or has a blank value. This allows the clients to continue processing

the action even if the variable is undened or blank.

Fail the task Fails an action that cannot retrieve a valid variable value. This allows you to view what is wrong with an action

instead of trying to debug a failed command line or an incorrectly congured system.

2 Select Search all text input les for variables to replace to do the following:

• Enable client-side scripts to search for and replace variables in the command line or within les specied.

• Replace variables with values found in the task sequence environment or the Windows system environment.

For optimum performance of the action clear the Search all text input les for variables to replace check box.

3 To replace any instances of a password in the Actions with the password provided and conrmed dialog box, select Replace

%PASSWORD% variables with this password.

4 To set additional variables on the system, select Manually dene additional variables . To dene the additional variables:

a Type a variable Name.

b Type the variable Value.

c Select the variable Type from the drop-down menu.

5 Click Apply and then click OK.

Using the Dell EMC Server Deployment Pack on systems running System Center Conguration Manager, 2012 SP2, 2012

R2 SP1, 2012 R2, 2012 SP1, or 2012