User's Manual

Capturing The RAC Configuration With The RACCAP Or raccap.sh Sample Script

If your system has a RAC, you can replicate the RAC configuration from the RAC of a source Dell system to an identical

target Dell system with an identical RAC. For example, from one PowerEdge R720 with iDRAC7 to another PowerEdge

R720 with iDRAC7.

NOTE: For the script to complete successfully, the source system must have access to the network share that

includes the pre-built DTK directory structure.

Running RACCAP.BAT Or raccap.sh

To run the RACCAP.BAT or raccap.sh sample script to capture the RAC configuration information in the raccfg.ini file:

1. Edit the startnet.cmd file (on your Windows PE image) or start-up script file (on your embedded Linux image) to call

the

RACCAP.BAT or raccap.sh script after the network share with the pre-built DTK directory structure is mounted.

For example, add:

In Windows:

Z:\Dell\x32\Toolkit\Template\Scripts\RACCAP.BAT\Z:\raccfg.ini

In Linux:

/opt/dell/toolkit/template/scripts/raccap.sh

2. Boot the source system into Windows PE or embedded Linux.

The script runs and saves the configuration information in the \Toolkit\Systems\<target system> directory in

Windows and /opt/dell/toolkit/systems/<target system> directory in Linux.

3. Edit the startnet.cmd file (Windows PE image) or start-up script file (embedded Linux image) to remove the text you

added in step 1.

NOTE: The RAC configuration file is referred to as the .cfg file in the

Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller

6 (iDRAC6) Enterprise for Blade Servers User Guide and the Dell Remote Access Controller 4 User’s Guide

See these guides for additional information about manually creating a RAC configuration file.

NOTE: Do not replicate the RAC IP address when creating a .cfg file. Replicating the RAC IP address can leave

the system inaccessible because multiple systems are configured with the same IP address.

NOTE: For

x9xx

or later systems, raccap.sh and syscap.sh have duplicate functions. If you run raccap.sh

followed by syscap.sh, the latter overwrites the former settings.

RACCAP.BAT Or raccap.sh

The RACCAP.BAT or raccap.sh sample script captures RAC configuration settings and saves them to a specified

location. An optional user input can be passed as a parameter. You can provide the path or file name as an input to this

script. The default variable values used in this script are set to the correct default values to perform a scripted

deployment. The RACCAP.BAT or raccap.sh script uses the RACADM.EXE utility in Windows and the racadm wrapper

script or syscfg utility (depending on the RAC version on your system) to retrieve RAC configuration settings from the

source system and saved it in a file named raccfg.ini at the \Toolkit\Systems\<target system> directory in Windows

and /opt/dell/toolkit/systems/<target> system directory in Linux.

NOTE: Ensure that you run RACCAP.BAT in a writable environment. If you run RACCAP.BAT in a read-only

environment, DTK displays the message <

filename.ini

> has been generated even though no new file is created.

UPINIT.BAT Or upinit.sh

The UPINIT.BAT or upinit.sh is a tool used to create and populate the Dell utility partition.