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Dell OpenManage DTK 3.5 OS Support
Hi guys,
We have a need to retrospecitvely apply some BIOS settings across our PowerEdge fleet running Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2. The Dell OpenManage DTK 3.5 states that the supported OSes as per http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/dtk/3_5/ug/html/dtkugc1.htm#wp1079635 are:
- For Windows PE, DTK utilities support Windows PE 2.0 (32-bit and 64-bit) and Windows PE 3.0 (32-bit and 64-bit).
- For embedded Linux, DTK utilities support Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server version 4, update 4 (32-bit).
Seems a little unnecessary to have to boot into WinPE just to apply some BIOS settings. Is the Dell OpenManage DTK not supported from Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2 directly? If not, how else can I apply BIOS configuration settings without having to reboot into WinPE across 1000s of servers?
Thanks.
Our site really likes using the dtk package, but we still need to install some 32 bit linux packages. When is it planned to offer a 64 bit linux versions of the srvadmin-hapi packlage and syscfg utility?
Currently, Dell does offer a 64 bit version for windows.
login2# file ./opt/dell/toolkit/bin/syscfg
./opt/dell/toolkit/bin/syscfg: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
login2# ldd ./opt/dell/toolkit/bin/syscfg
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libdchipm32.so.5 => /usr/lib/libdchipm32.so.5 (0x5558b000)
libdchbas32.so.5 => /usr/lib/libdchbas32.so.5 (0x555cf000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x55601000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x5575a000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x5575f000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x55779000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x55555000)
login2# rpm -qf /usr/lib/libdchipm32.so.5
srvadmin-hapi-6.5.0-1.33.2.el5
login2# rpm -qf /usr/lib/libdchbas32.so.5
srvadmin-hapi-6.5.0-1.33.2.el5
login2# ./opt/dell/toolkit/bin/syscfg --version
syscfg Version 3.5.0008 ser00 (Linux - Feb 19 2011, 10:42:08)
Copyright (c) 2002-2010 Dell Inc.
Thanks!
Hi Daniel,
We already have Microsoft System Centre Configuration Manager. There's no problem rolling this out on our 1000s of servers. The problem is with the tools Dell provides to manage these BIOS settings! I had a look at OMCONFIG but it's very limited!
Dell itself must have thousands of servers it manages BIOS settings on. What does your team do in house when they have a need to tweak a BIOS setting? :)
Cheers.
maccasau
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Posted December 18th, 2011 05:00
Hi Daniel,
I appreciate the response but I think you've missed my question here. The end goal here is to configure specific BIOS settings across our existing PowerEdge fleet -- not upgrade the BIOS firmware itself.
Dell has provided a tool here to do this -- SYSCFG.EXE in the DTK. But it appears your documentation only states it is only supported via WinPE? Why not Windows Server 2003/2008/2008 R2 also?
Cheers.