Reference Guide

SYSCFG

This section documents the Deployment Toolkit (DTK) system configuration utility. It describes the

command line parameters, configuration file format, and individual executables used to configure server

BIOS and Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) settings, DTK state settings, and system information

including PCI device detection.

Features

The SYSCFG utility:

• Displays help and usage information.

• Outputs configuration options to a file or screen.

• Reads configuration options from a file or Command Line Interface (CLI) parameters.

• Configures BMC/Remote Access Controller (RAC) users, local area network (LAN) channel and serial

channel settings, BMC/RAC platform event filter (PEF) settings, and BMC/RAC serial-over-LAN (SOL)

settings.

• Configures the nonmaskable interrupt (NMI) and power button.

• Reports the BMC/RAC firmware version, BMC/RAC device global unique identifier (GUID), and

BMC/RAC LAN channel and serial channel information.

• Reports BMC/RAC session information.

• Clears BMC/RAC system event log (SEL).

• Restores BMC/RAC factory defaults.

• Records and reports the state data value.

• Displays system configuration information.

• Returns specific error codes and messages.

• Logs activity to a given filename.

• Configures the BIOS features using ini file, DTK xml file, and ws-man xml file.

NOTE: In Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE), the SYSCFG utility is

located at \dell\toolkit\tools or \dell\toolkit\tools directory. In Linux, you can find it in the/opt/dell/

toolkit/bin directory.

SYSCFG General Options

NOTE: Some of the options in SYSCFG are followed by an asterisk. The asterisk is not part of the

command syntax. Such options are used for reporting purposes only. These commands do not

accept any sub-options or arguments. The values associated with these commands are reported by

the BIOS. You cannot modify these values.