CLI Guide

Supported operating systems

DTK utilities support Windows PE 10.0 (64-bit) and Windows PE 5.1 (64-bit), to deploy the following operating systems in BIOS and UEFI

mode:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Foundation, Essentials, Standard, and Datacenter editions

• Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Foundation, Essentials, and Standard editions

For Linux, the DTK utilities support deploying the following operating systems in BIOS and UEFI mode:

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 (64-bit)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 (64-bit)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 (64-bit)

You can install the DTK Linux RPM utilities on the following operating systems in BIOS and UEFI mode:

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 (64-bit)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 (64-bit)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 (64-bit)

NOTE: The RPMs are available in the RPMs folder of DTK ELI ISO at linux.dell.com/repo/hardware, and also in the

Dell EMC

Systems Management Tools and Documentation

DVD.

Toolkit Utilities

DTK contains utilities that allow you to congure the BIOS, Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), Remote Access Controller (RAC),

RAID controllers, and hard-drive partitions on supported Dell systems. Additionally, the utilities can be integrated with the sample les

provided with the toolkit to fully congure one-to-many target systems in a scripted mass system deployment.

System Conguration Utility

The SYSCFG utility performs the following tasks:

• Reports and sets BIOS conguration options.

• Reports and sets BMC/RAC conguration options.

• Reports and sets user-congurable states.

• Reports system information, including PCI device detection.

RAID Conguration Utility

The RAIDCFG utility reports and sets RAID conguration options.

RAC Conguration Utility

The RACADM utility reports and sets RAC conguration options for Dell Remote Access Controller DRAC 5, iDRAC6, and iDRAC7, and

iDRAC8.

Introduction