Owner's Manual

Introduction 9
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Introduction
The Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit (DTK) includes a set of utilities,
sample scripts, and sample configuration files that you need to deploy and
configure the Dell system. You can use DTK to build script-based and RPM-
based installation for deploying large number of systems on a pre-operating
system environment 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.
What’s New in This Release
The new features for this release include:
• Added support for SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 SP2 (64-bit).
• Deprecated the following operating systems:
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 (64-bit)
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 (32-bit and 64-bit)
– SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 SP1 (64-bit)
– Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
– Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Support for Dell PowerEdge
yx2x systems.
•On PowerEdge
yx2x systems, all the SYSCFG options are grouped as per
the BIOS. SYSCFG configures and reports the current and pending BIOS
attributes.
• If the system has setup password, BIOS configuration using SYSCFG
requires the setup password.
• Attributes such as ipv6, power budget, dynamic DNS, and dedicated NIC
configurations are available only with the appropriate installed license.