Owner's Manual

Installation
For complete installation and deployment instructions, see the "Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit User's Guide."
Installation Prerequisites
Before extracting Deployment Toolkit components, ensure that you have:
 The Deployment Toolkit self-extracting installation file ("DTKX.X-WINPE-XX.exe")
 A Windows workstation that has at least 512 MB of RAM.
Installation and Configuration Notes
 The sample scripts are provided as examples for customers who want to develop their own deployment process.
Some customers may find that the scripts work well in their environment, while some customers may need to
develop their own scripts entirely from scratch. Customers deploying multiple systems need to provide unique
information for each server when appropriate. For example, system host names, IP addresses, and system service
tags need to be unique for each system. The batch scripts and configuration files need to be modified to reflect
the unique information for each system being deployed. Many options are available to optimize this process.
 Installation of Dell utility partition is not supported on Windows PE 2.0 and Windows PE 3.0.
Upgrade
When upgrading from a previous release of the DTK, ensure that you create environment for the new DTK version separately
from the previous version of DTK. This step is necessary because the environments and requirements for the new DTK
versions are completely different.
Tool Notes
SYSCFG
 Some options may not be present on all systems, which may be due to the BIOS version or hardware feature set.
The usage information generated by running SYSCFG without arguments shows only those options that are valid for
your system.
 The "--devseq" option is present only if you have an available, bootable hard-disk partition. If this option is present
in the configuration file, but not present on your system, you will receive a usage error.
 It is required to perform a warm reboot after applying the syscfg settings changes on Dell PowerEdge yx2x systems.
 If you perform operations that change the "--redmem" option, reboot your system immediately. This is applicable
to both command-line and "--infile" usage.
NOTE: The "--redmem" option should not be issued with any other command and should be immediately followed
by a system reboot. This note is important when you develop scripts that can alter the "--redmem" setting.
 For options that use text strings such as username, password, hostname, and community string, using characters
such as <space>, "<," ">," "|," "=" on the command line can be misinterpreted by the command line parser and may
cause errors. Use only alphanumeric characters to avoid these errors.