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 Command Line Interface (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