Deployment Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit Version 5.4 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
Deployment using customized embedded Linux
Make sure that you have the following basic libraries, Dell toolkit libraries, tools, and utilities required for DTK and integrate them
to your embedded Linux deployment environment to proceed with the deployment:
● Drivers for all hardware installed in the embedded Linux. These drivers are available at www.dell.com/support.
● Serial port configuration utilities (setserial and stty) for racadm.
● Installed and working instrumentation drivers from /mnt/cdrom/tools.
● Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) tools.
● Basic libraries and utilities for Linux to execute customized scripts.
● Installed DTK and the dependency RPMs.
● Necessary entries in the ld.so.config file so that the libraries are installed.
Integrate all the above mentioned libraries, Dell toolkit libraries, tools, and utilities into your embedded Linux environment and
proceed with deployment.
NOTE: For more information on how Dell‑provided utilities and drivers are installed, see start-stage3.sh, start-
hapi.sh, or start-raid.sh available in /mnt/cdrom/tools.
NOTE: The /opt/dell/srvadmin/sharedand /opt/dell/srvadmin/hapi directories must have read-write
permissions. For more details, see start-stage3.sh and start-hapi.sh.
Using a third-party deployment solution framework
for systems running Linux
You can use DTK with any existing third-party deployment solution framework that provides a PXE booting infrastructure that
can be used as transport mechanism for the DTK utilities. Because each third-party deployment framework is unique, these
solutions are beyond the scope of this document. If you plan to utilize a third-party deployment solution framework, make sure
that the deployment solution framework supports embedded Linux as a pre-operating system environment.
Running the deployment scripts
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