User's Manual

Introduction 11
Introduction
The Dell™ OpenManage™ Deployment Toolkit (DTK) includes a set of
utilities for configuring and deploying Dell systems. The DTK is designed for
customers who need to build scripted installations to deploy large numbers of
systems in a reliable fashion without having to dramatically change their
current deployment processes.
In addition to the command line utilities used to configure various system
features, the DTK also provides sample scripts and configuration files to
perform common deployment tasks and documentation. These files and
scripts describe the use of DTK in Microsoft
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Windows
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Preinstallation
Environment (Windows PE) and embedded Linux environments.
The benefits of the DTK:
• Provides the tools necessary to automate the pre-operating system
configuration tasks and the unattended operating system installation tasks
when deploying Dell systems.
• Scales to support from one to many system deployment efforts.
• Facilitates consistent system configurations across multiple systems.
• Provides diverse and useful deployment tools that can be utilized in many
different ways.
Introduction to the DTK User’s Guide
While the DTK is designed to be flexible and expandable, this guide is
limited to providing general, best practices procedures that focus on the basic
tasks for a successful deployment. Users might find many alternative
solutions to the best practices guidelines described in this guide and many
additional uses for the DTK utilities beyond what is covered in this guide or
in the Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit CLI Reference Guide.