Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit Version 5.3 User's Guide
- Introduction
- Pre-requisites and deployment
- Downloading DTK
- DTK Seamless package
- Setting up a directory structure for deployment
- Preparing the script files
- Using the sample DTK scripts to run a full deployment
- Editing the sample batch files to perform a complete system deployment
- Scripts for deployment on systems running windows
- Scripts for deployment on systems running Linux
- Replication scripts for deployment on systems running windows operating system
- Replication scripts for deployment on systems running Linux operating system
- Deployment scripts for systems running windows operating systems
- Deployment scripts for systems running Linux operating systems
- Other scripts for systems running Windows operating systems
- Other scripts for systems running Linux operating systems
- Editing example of TKENVSET and tkenvset
- Editing DTK task scripts
- Using DTK sample scripts to capture configuration information
- Preparing the operating system installation scripts
- Running the deployment scripts
- Deployment using removable boot media with a network connection media-based for systems running windows
- Media-based local deployment for systems running Microsoft Windows
- Media-Based local deployment with Networking enabled for systems running windows
- Deployment using removable boot media without a network media-based connection for systems running windows
- Network based deployment for systems running windows
- Using a third-party deployment solution framework for systems running windows
- Using Windows Pre-installation Environment driver CAB files for systems running Windows
- Deployment using Dell provided embedded Linux
- Deployment using customized embedded Linux
- Using a third-party deployment solution framework for systems running Linux
- Running Dell update packages on systems running embedded Linux
- Known issues and frequently asked questions
DTK Seamless package
The DTK Seamless package is a single installer package that carries Linux DTK RPMs (RHEL, SLES) and its dependency.
Topics:
• Seamless package — Downloading and Installing
Seamless package — Downloading and Installing
This section describes the downloading and installing of DTK seamless package.
The seamless package auto recognizes the OS type and its respective dependency during the installation and installs SYSCFG,
RAIDCFG, and RACADM tools on post Linux operating system.
The advantages of seamless package are:
The size of the DTK seamless package is less (approximately 60MB) compared to that of the complete OM DVD size.
The DTK seamless package is posted independently on www.dell.com/support with OM and DTK releases.
The seamless package supports both interactive and non-interactive modes of DTK tool installation.
Interactive mode options:
Type the following command: ./DTKTOOLS_<release version>_Linux64_<build number>.Bin
The options displayed on the screen are as follows:
Deployment Tools Install Utility
Available install options:
[ ] 1. Command line BIOS configuration utility (syscfg utility)
[ ] 2. Command line RAID configuration utility (raidcfg utility)
[ ] 3. DRAC command line configuration utility
[ ] 4. All features
Enter the number to select/deselect (toggle selection) a component
Enter i to install the selected components.
Enter q to quit.
Once the DTK tools installation is complete, success message is displayed on the screen.
To uninstall the DTK tools, run the command
/opt/dell/toolkit/bin/dtktools-uninstall.sh —d
Non-interactive mode:
In the non-interactive mode, all the available tools are installed by default. Any other option is ignored.
Type the following command:
./DTKTOOLS_<release version>_Linux64_<build number>.Bin [—f/--force]
Once the DTK tools installation is complete, success message is displayed on the screen.
To uninstall the DTK tools, run the command
./DTKTOOLS_<release version>_Linux64_<build number>.Bin [-d/--delete]
To view the available options, run the following command in the command line:
./DTKTOOLS_<release version>_Linux64_<build number>.Bin [—h/--help].
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