Dell EMC OpenManage Deployment Toolkit Version 6.1.
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Contents 1 Introduction....................................................................................................................................................4 DTK Deprecation Message............................................................................................................................................... 4 Documents you may need.................................................................................................................................................
1 Introduction The OpenManage Deployment Toolkit (DTK) includes a set of utilities, sample scripts, and sample configuration files that you can use to deploy and configure the Dell systems. 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.
• For Dell EMC OpenManage Connections Enterprise Systems Management documents — Dell.com/ OMConnectionsEnterpriseSystemsManagement • For Dell EMC Serviceability Tools documents — Dell.com/ServiceabilityTools • a Go to Dell.com/Support/Home. b Click Choose from all products.
• • • • • • – Writable media drive – Network access A target system with a media drive, if performing a local deployment. A target system with a media drive and network access, if performing a network deployment. All DTK utilities, sample scripts, and sample configuration files. Dell EMC OpenManage Systems Management Tools and Documentation DVD. Your operating system software and documentation. An optimally configured source system with network access. NOTE: You can download the latest drivers from www.
12 Navigate to \Toolkit\Template\Configs. 13 From \Toolkit\Template\Configs, copy Unattend.xml to z:\PER740. NOTE: The unattendw2k12.xml is for Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 (64 bit) in BIOS mode, unattendw2k12_uefi.xml is for Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 (64 bit) in UEFI mode, unattendw2k16.xml is for Windows Server 2016 (64 bit) in BIOS mode, and unattendw2k16_uefi.xml is for Windows Server 2016 (64–bit) in UEFI mode. 14 On the source system, navigate to PER740.
NOTE: This feature is not supported on Dell PowerEdge MX platforms. 1 On the source system, create an operating system-specific folder. For example, WinClient_deploy. 2 Make WinClient_deploy folder shareable. 3 In the folder WinClient_deploy, create two folders sources and platform name (for example, PR7920). NOTE: The platform name must be a DTK standard name. To know the platform name, run TKENVSET.BAT located in the x: \Dell\Toolkit\Template\Scripts directory, and then run the SET command.
• Systems Management Tools and Documentation DVD. • Your operating system software and documentation. • An optimally configured source system with network access. NOTE: You can download the latest drivers from support.dell.com. NOTE: When the inbox drivers for PERC controllers and NIC cards are not available, provide the required drivers using driver disk method.
12 Copy ks.cfg/ks-rhelx.cfg (in BIOS mode) or ks_uefi.cfg/ks_rhelx_uefi.cfg (in UEFI mode) from /opt/dell/toolkit/template/configs to NFS share on the source machine. Here, x indicates the version of the operating system. In BIOS mode, rename the ks_rhelx.cfg to ks.cfg. In UEFI mode, rename the ks_rhelx_uefi.cfg to ks_uefi.cfg. 13 Edit ks.cfg (in BIOS mode) or ks_rhelx_uefi.cfg (in UEFI mode) on the source system, where x indicates the version of the operating system.
Installing SUSE Linux server Operating System using DTK CAUTION: It is recommended that you consult your SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system documentation and unattended deployment documentation to develop a thorough understanding of the unattended installation process before attempting to perform a full scripted deployment. NOTE: While installing Linux, ensure that you install grub in the boot partition. Otherwise, you cannot boot to the utility partition by pressing the key during reboot.
To convert from DTK to RACADM deployment and to install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server using the suseinst.sh script: 1 On the source system, navigate to the location of the required SUSE Linux Enterprise Linux operating system image. 2 Perform the steps 2 to 11 from the section Installing SUSE Linux server Operating System using DTK. 3 From /opt/dell/toolkit/converter, run the command python dtktoracadm.py or python dtktoracadm.py linux_scripts.lst, where linux_scripts.
16 From /opt/dell/toolkit/template/scripts, run /centinst6.sh or /centinst7.sh. The server reboots to the grub prompt. The CentOS Linux operating system unattended installation is initiated . NOTE: For more information on installing, see en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/1772.dellopenmanage-deployment-toolkit.aspx.
Downloading Seamless package The DTK seamless package is a single installer package which carries Linux DTK RPMs (RHEL, SLES) and its dependency. Seamless package auto recognizes the OS type and its respective dependency during the installation and installs SYSCFG, RAIDCFG and RACADM tools on Linux post operating system. The size of the DTK tools seamless package is less (60MB) compared to that of the complete OM DVD contents size. DTK seamless package is posted independently on www.dell.
Upgrading your DTK version When upgrading from a previous release of DTK, ensure that you create the environment for new DTK version separately from the previous version. This step is necessary because the environments and requirements for the new DTK versions are completely different.
