User's Manual

Introduction 11
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Introduction
The Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit (DTK) includes a set of utilities
for configuring and deploying Dell systems. You can use DTK to build script-
based and RPM-based installation for deploying large number of systems in a
reliable way, without changing their current deployment processes.
In addition to the command line utilities used to configure various system
features, 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 Windows
Pre-installation Environment
(Windows PE) and embedded Linux environments.
The benefits of 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
different ways.