Users Guide

Integrating Server Update Utility with other
components
The dierent possibilities of integrating SUU with other components are:
• Integrating SUU with OpenManage Essentials
• Creating a custom SUU using Repository Manager
• Exporting as a SUU
Topics:
• Integrating SUU with OpenManage Essentials
• Creating a custom SUU using Repository Manager
• Exporting as a SUU
Integrating SUU with OpenManage Essentials
OpenManage Essentials is a hardware management application that provides a comprehensive view of systems, devices, and components
in the enterprise’s network. With OpenManage Essentials, a web-based and one-to-many systems management application for systems
and other devices, you can:
• Discover and inventory the systems.
• Monitor systems health.
• View and manage system alerts.
• Perform system updates.
• View hardware inventory and compliance reports.
Selecting a catalog source using SUU
1 Launch OpenManage Essentials.
2 Click Manage > System Update > Select a Catalog Source.
3 Click Use le System source (SUU) .
4 Click Browse and select either the catalog.xml or catalog.cab le.
5 Click Import now.
Creating a custom SUU using Repository Manager
You can create a custom SUU for the system using DRM.
1 Launch DRM.
2 Create or open a repository.
3 Select the bundles you want to export. From the list of displayed bundles, click Export.
4 In the Export Bundles dialog box, click Next.
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