ajeetraina/dell-syscfg repository overview

⁠What is Dell SYSCFG?

Dell SYSCFG is a powerful tool provided by DTK (Dell Toolkit) that allows you to change BIOS settings while you are still booted into the operating system. SYSCFG helps in the following ways:

• 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.

⁠Tested Platform

• RHEL 6.5
• CentOS 6.5
• Ubuntu Server 14.04.3 LTS

⁠Help and Usage:

⁠Example #1:

Display all the options available under syscfg, try passing -h parameter as shown below:

#docker run --privileged ajeetraina/dell-syscfg:v1.0 /opt/dell/toolkit/bin/syscfg -h

⁠Example #2:

Prints all BIOS options to the specified xml file.

#docker run --privileged -v /mnt:/mnt ajeetraina/dell-syscfg:v1.0 /opt/dell/toolkit/bin/syscfg --ox /mnt/test.txt

The /mnt/test.xml shows something like:

cat /mnt/test.txt

Disabled OptimizerMode

Please Note: This is 1.44 GB container which holds a complete CentOS image. If you really think this looks bloated and heavy, visit https://hub.docker.com/r/ajeetraina/syscfg-minimal/⁠