CLI Guide

Replication Of DTK Utilities

This section explains the replication of DTK utilities.

File Format

The -i and -o options use the .ini le format for system conguration (SYSCFG) options. All name/value entries that follow the [syscfg]

section header in the .ini le belong to the SYSCFG utility. For an example of the syscfg.ini le, see Sample SYSCFG Utility .ini File Format.

SYSCFG Replication Rules

Not all BIOS and BMC options can be replicated using the .ini le. For example, boot sequence and device sequence are only replicated if a

device name list can be supplied. A numerical device list cannot be replicated since the index values can change from system to system. In

addition, because the service tag information is static, it is not commented out in the output le or replicated. See the description of each

option for further replication information.

The syscfg.ini le cannot be used across dierent systems. The le output operation places system identication information at the

beginning of the [syscfg] section. This information is used to determine if the le can be accepted as input for a system. The following

information is used for system identication:

• System ID Byte(s)

• System Name

• BIOS Version

If these values do not match the values found on the system, the le input operation fails.

The following is the SYSCFG behavior during replication:

• Options not available in SYSCFG are termed invalid options. If SYSCFG encounters an invalid option in the syscfg.ini le, the SYSCFG

utility terminates.

• Unsupported options are options available in SYSCFG but not applicable on certain systems. If SYSCFG encounters an unsupported

option, SYSCFG logs this option and continues to the next option.

• Unsupported arguments are arguments valid in SYSCFG but not applicable on certain systems. If SYSCFG encounters an unsupported

argument, SYSCFG terminates.

• SYSCFG logs a message in the log le for each option processed in the syscfg.ini le. To generate the log le, use the logle option.

RAID Replication

The RAID replication feature reads the RAID conguration information from the source system and creates a raid.ini le. This raid.ini le

can be applied to the RAID congurations of the target system. The RAID replication requires both, the source system and the target

system to have similar RAID controllers.

RACADM Replication

The RACREP.BAT sample script applies RAC conguration options to the target system based on the conguration information that has

been saved in a conguration le. User input is optional, depending on variables set in the RACREP.BAT sample script. This script uses the

RACADM.EXE utility to congure the RAC in the target system using the RAC conguration le, raccfg.ini. The raccfg.ini conguration

le is passed as the rst parameter to the RACREP.BAT script. If this parameter is not passed, the default variable values used in this script

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