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Executive summary
6 Creating firmware baselines and catalogs by using Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise
Executive summary
Firmware update is one of the critical activities in device monitoring and management that helps you keep the
environment up-to-date and compliant. It also protects the devices against vulnerabilities and fixes bugs. Dell
EMC OpenManage Enterprise enables you to regularly check the compliance of devices and upgrade or roll
back, as necessary. This Dell EMC technical white paper describes the procedures to add and manage
firmware catalogs and firmware baselines, and then view and manage firmware baseline compliance reports.
With the increasing demand in datacenter to maintain different groups of servers on different firmware and
driver baselines, this feature helps data center administrators to simplify the operation. Primary use case for
this feature is to have different catalogs generated by DRM, filtered for specific use cases, and then use them
against the custom groups.
To perform any tasks on Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise, you must have necessary user privileges. See
Role-based user privileges in Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise in this technical white paper.
Quick links to the sections in this technical white paper:
 Create online firmware catalog by using Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise
 Create a custom catalog by using Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise
 Create a firmware baseline by using OpenManage Enterprise
 Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Firmware Update Support Matrix
 View firmware baseline compliance report in Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise
 Update the device firmware version by using the firmware baseline compliance report
 Update firmware by using DUP in Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise
You can also view the following videos to get more information about using the unmatched features of Dell
EMC OpenManage Enterprise Graphical User Interface (GUI):
 Creating a firmware baseline in Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise (01:22 m)
 Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Systems Management Console (02:02 m)
 Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise (01:44 m)
Note—For more information about the field definitions involved in the tasks performed that are discussed in this
technical white paper, see the Online Help documentation by clicking the ? symbol in the upper-right corner of that
respective page or dialog box. Else, you can also see the Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise 3.0 User’s Guide available
on the support site.