How to inspect and change BIOS configurations on a PowerEdge C-Series server with SetupBIOS tool

This article describes how to manage the PowerEdge C-Series servers using the SetupBIOS Tool

Setupbios is a PowerEdge-C specific tool that allows for on the fly collection of BIOS settings and facilitates deployment using a configuration file created from a baseline system

It can be downloaded from poweredgec.dell.com.

• ./setupbios

Shows a list of commands that can be used with the tool 
 

• ./setupbios setting show
  Gives a list of all the available BIOS settings for the server. (The "*" indicates the BIOS default setting) 

 

Changing, saving, and deploying BIOS settings:

• ./setupbios setting set virtualization_tech enabled
  Sets the Virtualization Technology BIOS setting to enabled.

• ./setupbios setting save >biosetting
  Saves the current BIOS settings to the biosetting file. (You can view this file using the cat biosetting command.)
  
  
• ./setupbios setting readfile biosetting
  
  Uses the saved configuration file (biosetting) to change the BIOS settings. 

 

See Also: 
How To Remotely Manage a PowerEdge C-Series server using the BMCTool 
How To view storage information on a PowerEdge C-Series server with LDState Tool  
How To Gather logs on a PowerEdge C-Series server with PECLogs script