Users Guide

DSU features

Provides updates for BIOS, applications, firmware and driver for various devices to the end customer. The updates are provided to the

customer by gathering and adding all the device and dependency details together by providing a consistent and easy to execute user

interface. Also publishes inventory collector application for inventorying the updatable components and also the metadata about the

updates in the form of catalogs and hosts repositories. Dell Repository Manager provides the capability to customize these catalogs.

About this task

DSU provides following basic features:

1. Inventory

2. Preview

3. Update

4. Bootable ISO

NOTE: Updatable components names are inconsistent when any of these features are performed for remote hosts,

remote-iDRAC, and remote Operating System to iDRAC Passthrough.

NOTE: IPV4 is the default IP compatibility.

NOTE: The sample IP Address, Username and Password provided in this document are only for reference purposes.

Topics:

• Inventory

• Preview

• Updating Server

• Bootable ISO

Inventory

Inventory is a basic feature which provides list of system components. With inventory feature, user can perform the following use cases:

1. View Inventory: User can view inventory list from the console for remote single and multiple servers, iDRAC, and iDRAC passthrough.

2. Export Inventory: User can export inventory list in JSON format from the location for remote single and multiple servers, iDRAC, and

iDRAC passthrough.

3. View system inventory using an inventory file: User can view inventory file from the location for remote Host/single servers, iDRAC,

and iDRAC passthrough.

See the below table for all the inventory use cases and respective mandatory and optional attributes along with format and an example.

For more details on optional attributes and its usage, click the hyperlink that is provided in the below table.

NOTE: For Driver, inventory lists all the required updatable and non- updatable parent component and sub components.

Table 1. Inventory Use cases

Actions Mandatory Attributes Optional Attributes Syntax/Example

View inventory

--inventory --component-type

Format:

dsu --inventory

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