DELL EMC OpenManage Server Update Utility Version 19.01.
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Contents 1 About OpenManage Server Update Utility..................................................................................................... 5 Key features and functionalities....................................................................................................................................... 5 What is new in this release................................................................................................................................................
Running SUU over a network...................................................................................................................................20 Deleting the temporary folder.................................................................................................................................. 20 Updating the H661 Firmware....................................................................................................................................
1 About OpenManage Server Update Utility OpenManage Server Update Utility is an application available in an ISO for identifying and applying updates to the system. SUU is no longer a DVD-based application. Copy the ISO to a USB drive or to the network drive. You can use SUU to update the Dell PowerEdge system or to view the updates available for system that supports SUU.
What is new in this release • Support for new platforms: – Dell PowerEdge R240, R340, T140, T340 and R740xd2.
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2 About graphical user interface mode The Graphical User Interface (GUI) provides an interactive approach to perform comparisons and updates. You can use the GUI to: • • • View the system comparison report, which displays the system inventoried device versions, applicable DUP versions, and the devices that require an update. Perform an upgrade, downgrade, or a system set update. Browse the repository to view the supported components of all the platforms in the SUU.
Your system does not meet the required prerequisites for installing the DELL OpenManage software component. Therefore, the row for the software component is disabled in the Comparison Report. Click Continue to update the applicable hardware components. Hardware Prerequisite Failure Message Prerequisite Failure Message: Your system does not meet the required prerequisites for some of the hardware component(s). Therefore, all the rows for the hardware component(s) are disabled in the Comparison Report.
7 Click Download Now to save the PE Updates prereq cd.iso file on the system. Copy this file to a system that has a media-burning program and create a bootable media from the provided .iso file. This bootable media is the Prerequisites media. Comparison report SUU compares the version of the component installed on the system with the versions available in the repository and displays the results in a Comparison Report.
Comparison report features You can view, sort or export the Comparison Report. Table 3. Comparison Report Features Tasks Action Viewing Report To view the report, in the left pane, click the system’s host name. Sorting Columns To sort columns, click the column names. NOTE: The columns are sorted in the ascending or descending order. Exporting Report To export the report, click Export Report. NOTE: You can save the report in a .csv, .html, or .xml format on the system.
SUU disables Enable System Set Update and selects only those component versions that are later than the repository version to downgrade. 2 Select Downgrade. All downgradeable components are automatically selected. 3 In the Confirm Update dialog box, click Yes to confirm and continue or No to cancel. While downgrading the components, SUU displays an update report. After completion, SUU displays an Update Complete dialog box. 4 Click OK. The status of the downgrade can be viewed in the Comparison Report.
3 About command line interface mode The Command Line Interface (CLI) mode allows you to run commands from a command prompt to perform comparisons and updates. Run SUU in CLI mode, in the DSU root directory. If you are running SUU from a network shared location, copy the DSU ISO contents to a shared directory and run the CLI from the shared directory. You can use the CLI to: • Perform comparisons and updates. For the list of commands, see List of CLI Commands. • View the progress of the update.
CLI Command Syntax Command Description — c | — comparison Compares the current component. — d | — directory Directs the event logs to a different directory than the default location. — s | — stoponfail Stops the update if a failure occurs during the update of the first component. — iprog | — inventoryprogress Shows the progress (in percentage) of the comparison between the components in the system and the components in the repository.
4 Integrating Server Update Utility with other components The different 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 comprehensiv
Checking to see if the required plugin is installed… is displayed. NOTE: If you select Export as SUU to directory, the output package creates the SUU contents in the form of a directory. NOTE: If the system does not have the required plugin, Click here to install the Plugin link is displayed. 6 To install the required plug-ins , Click the Click here to install the Plugin link. Tha installation process may take several minutes. 7 After the plug-in is downloaded, the Report dialog box is displayed.
The following are the different errors that may occur: • File type of a component does not match with the bundle that it belongs to. For example, a Linux DUP is displayed in a Windows bundle. • The supported platform of a component does not match the bundle supported list. For example a PowerEdge R210 BIOS displays a PowerEdge T710 bundle. • The operating system supported for the bundle is Windows or Linux. For example, export M1000e bundle to SUU. Other operating systems are considered as errors.
5 Known issues and frequently asked questions This section describes some known issues and frequently asked questions for SUU. Topics: • Known issues • Frequently asked questions Known issues The following are some known issues with SUU. SUU GUI fails to open in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 operating system If SUU GUI, is unable to launch in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 (64–bit) operating system perform the following • Run the command in the terminal: – #echo -e "Section \"Device\"\nIdentifier \"Devic
The Group Policy Editor window is displayed. 2 Browse to Security Options. The Policy window is displayed 3 Navigate to User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode. 4 Right-click and select Elevate without prompt. DUP fails on 64–bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system If DUP fails to run on a 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system, manually install the following RPMs: • compat-libstdc++-33.i686 • libstdc++-4.4.4-13.el6.
Updating Multiple Devices When updating multiple, identical devices on the same system, SUU applies the update to all instances of all devices. For example, if your system is configured with three controllers running firmware or driver versions 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3, and the repository contains version 1.2, the update applies firmware version 1.2 to all devices.
Updating the H661 Firmware On Dell’s 12th generation of PowerEdge servers or later, if the CERC ATA RAID controllers are configured with the H661 firmware, SUU cannot update the firmware to the latest version. To update the firmware, use the -force option to manually apply the DUP with the latest firmware version. Using the RAC virtual media Do not use the Virtual Media to remotely run the SUU on a system. This procedure disconnects the Virtual Media connection, interrupting the SUU update procedure.
You must have local administrator to run SUU on systems running Windows operating systems. To obtain local administrator rights, you must either belong to the local administrators group or use the local administrator account. On systems running Linux, only root (user id 0) users can see the Comparison Report and perform updates.
