dtk_qig.
dtk_qig.book Page 2 Friday, January 20, 2012 4:11 PM Notes and Cautions NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your computer. ____________________ Information in this publication is subject to change without notice. © 2012 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction of these materials in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of Dell Inc. is strictly forbidden. Trademarks used in this text: Dell™ and OpenManage™, are trademarks of Dell Inc.
dtk_qig.book Page 3 Friday, January 20, 2012 4:11 PM Introduction The Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit (DTK) includes a set of utilities, sample scripts, and sample configuration files that you need, to deploy and configure your Dell system. 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.
dtk_qig.book Page 4 Friday, January 20, 2012 4:11 PM Deployment Overview DTK offers a complete set of utilities, sample scripts, and RPM packages that can be used to automate the deployment of Dell systems. Before running the deployment, ensure that you create specific deployment media to facilitate the deployment method you choose. For more information, see the Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit User’s Guide available on support.dell.
dtk_qig.book Page 5 Friday, January 20, 2012 4:11 PM • Your operating system software and documentation. • An optimally configured source system with network access. NOTE: You can also download the latest drivers from support.dell.com.
dtk_qig.book Page 6 Friday, January 20, 2012 4:11 PM Preparing for Deployment If you are using the Windows PE environment: 1 Copy or extract DTK utilities, sample scripts, sample configuration files, and drivers provided (in the zip file) to the Windows PE image. 2 Organize DTK utilities, script files, configuration files, the operating system installation files, and the requisite system files and drivers on a network share or local media.
dtk_qig.book Page 7 Friday, January 20, 2012 4:11 PM 4 Generate a system BIOS, BMC, RAID, and/or RAC configuration profile from the optimally configured source system. Copy the generated configuration files to a read/write share onto the workstation or server. NOTE: You can obtain the system BIOS, BMC, RAID, and/or RAC configuration files by booting from DTK Linux ISO image and running the syscap.sh, raidcap.sh, and raccap.sh scripts.
dtk_qig.
