Quick Reference Guide

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SYSCFG
This section documents the Deployment Toolkit (DTK) system configuration utility. It describes
the command line parameters, configuration file format, and individual executables used to
configure server BIOS and baseboard management controller (BMC) settings, DTK state settings,
and system information including PCI device detection.
Features
The SYSCFG utility has the following general features:
• Displays help and usage information
• Outputs configuration options to a file or screen
• Reads configuration options from a file or CLI parameters
• Configures BMC/remote access controller (RAC) users, local area network (LAN) channel and serial
channel settings, BMC/RAC platform event filter (PEF) settings, and BMC/RAC serial-over-LAN (SOL)
settings
• Configures the nonmaskable interrupt (NMI) and power button
• Reports the BMC/RAC firmware version, BMC/RAC device global unique identifier (GUID), and
BMC/RAC LAN channel and serial channel information
• Reports BMC/RAC session information
• Clears BMC/RAC system event log (SEL)
• Restores BMC/RAC factory defaults
• Records and reports the state data value
• Displays system configuration information
• Returns specific error codes and messages
• Logs activity to a given filename
• Configures the BIOS features
NOTE: In Microsoft
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Windows
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Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE), the SYSCFG utility is located at
\dell\toolkit\tools. In Linux, you can find it in /opt/dell/toolkit/bin.