User's Manual

40 Configuring Your Managed System
Configuring Your BMC Using the Deployment
Toolkit Utility
The Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit SYSCFG utility includes a set of
Microsoft Windows PE and Linux-based utilities for configuring and
deploying Dell systems. The Deployment ToolKit (DTK) SYSCFG utility is
specifically designed to address all necessary BMC configuration tasks using a
powerful and comprehensive command-line interface. This utility runs on
PowerEdge 1435SC and all supported PowerEdge x7xx, x8xx, x9xx, xx0x, and
xx1x systems.
To use the BMC Management Utility, configure your managed system with
the SYSCFG utility by performing the following tasks:
• Obtain the latest version of DTK from the Dell Support website at
support.dell.com
.
• Create a BMC configuration CD containing a bootable image, and the
SYSCFG utility.
•Configure BMC Users.
• Configure BMC SOL access.
• Configure BMC IPMI serial access.
Installation and Setup for Microsoft Windows PE Operating Systems
NOTE: See the Deployment Toolkit User’s Guide for additional information about
installing and using the utilities, and the Deployment Toolkit Command Line
Interface Reference Guide for a complete list of valid options, suboptions, and
arguments for using the SYSCFG.EXE to configure and manage your BMC.
The DTK components are provided as a self-extracting zip file on the Dell
Support website at support.dell.com. The self-extracting file can be opened
on any system running a Microsoft Windows operating system, or it can be
extracted at the Windows Command Prompt (cmd.exe) using the
PKUNZIP.EXE utility (not supplied with the Deployment Toolkit). By
default, the dtk-2.X-winpe-AXX.exe files are extracted to the root directory of
your local hard drive, for example, C:\. This location can be changed by giving
a different path when extracting the file. Perform the following steps to
extract the DTK components to a workstation running Windows: