Users Guide

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. SUU compares
the versions of components currently installed on the system with the versions of the components packaged on the Dell PowerEdge
Server Update Utility media. SUU displays a comparison report of the versions and provides various options for updating the components.
Only users with administrator (Microsoft Windows) or root (Linux) privileges can perform updates using SUU.
NOTE: SUU carries updates only from Dell’s YX2X generation of the PowerEdge servers. The SUU ISO is split into two
components, such as for Microsoft Windows operating system: 64–bit, for Linux operating system: 64–bit.
Topics:
• Key features and functionalities
• What is new in this release
• Supported operating systems
• Accessing documents from the Dell EMC support site
Key features and functionalities
This section describes key features and functionalities of SUU.
Table 1. Features and Functionalities
Feature Description
Prerequisite Failure Messages List of error messages displayed when the prerequisite conditions are not met. For more
information, see Prerequisite Failure Messages.
Fixing Prerequisite Failures Allows you to fix the hardware failures. For more information, see Fixing the Hardware
Prerequisite Failure.
Comparison Report Displays a list of component versions installed on the system that do not match the
versions on the repository. For more information, see Comparison Report.
Upgrading or Downgrading or Updating
System Components
Allows you to upgrade, downgrade, or update the system components if the versions vary
from the repository version. For more information, see Upgrading System Components,
Downgrading System Components, and Updating System Component.
Launching SUU in a GUI mode or from
Network Location
Enables you to run SUU, upgrade, downgrade, update components on multiple systems.
For more information, see Launching SUU in a GUI mode.
CLI Commands Displays the list of commands to perform comparisons and updates in the CLI mode. For
more information, see List of CLI Commands.
Dependency Feature which provides information about the available updates for a device. SUU enables
certain tools and applications to determine if a set of conditions or requirements are met.
These conditions or requirements are called dependencies. Following are the types of
dependency: Pre-requisites and Corequisites. For more information, see Comparison
Report.
What is new in this release
• Support for new platform:
• Dell PowerEdge R7525.
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