Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- DELL EMC System Update Version 1.9.1.0 User’s Guide
- Introduction to Dell System Update
- Support Matrix
- Installing DSU
- To install Dell System Update
- Install Dell System Update DUP on Linux operating systems
- Online method to install Dell System Update on SLES operating system
- Online method to install Dell System Update on Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system
- Install Dell System Update using the offline method on systems running supported Linux operating systems
- Install Dell System Update on systems running Ubuntu
- To install Dell System Update on the supported Ubuntu at command prompt
- Installing DSU DUP on Windows server operating systems on command prompt
- Dell System Update features
- Network share
- Index catalog
- Sample scripts using DSU
- Dell System Update Options
- DSU Help
- Utility version
- Non-interactive update
- System inventory
- Proxy
- Certificate
- Compliance
- Catalog location
- Catalog ID
- Category values
- Category list
- Upgrades only
- Downgrades only
- Updates list
- Equivalent version updates
- Inventory file path
- Output inventory information
- Preview updates
- Configuration file
- Destination type
- Path of the inventory collector binary file
- Source Location
- Destination location
- Bootable ISO log
- Source type
- Path to save the log file
- List only critical updates
- Log level
- Pushing updates to the remote system
- DSU installer file location
- Restarting system
- To ignore the optional dependency
- To import the Dell public key
- To ignore the signature verification
- Component Type
- Remote
- Providing the updates for remote system using iDRAC
- To use operating system to iDRAC, pass through interface
- Input inventory
- Output inventory
- Output format
- Uninstall
- Progress
- DSU Outputs and Options
- Uninstalling DSU
- Troubleshooting Dell System Update
- Frequently asked questions
- Sample
- Licenses
To push updates to the remote system.
To push the required updates to the remote system.
Command for Linux:
dsu --push-remote-updates
Command for Windows:
dsu --push-remote-updates
Providing the updates for remote system using iDRAC
To provide the remote system type. The value that is supported is iDRAC. This option performs the iDRAC Update (Out-of
band) without any operating system.
Command for Linux:
dsu --rsystemtype=<value>
Command for Windows:
dsu --rsystemtype=<value>
To use operating system to iDRAC, pass through
interface
To push the updates by operating system IDRAC Passthrough using the USB-NIC interface.
● OAuth: Supports operating system to iDRAC passthrough connection without iDRAC credentials
● BasicAuth: Supports operating system to iDRAC passthrough connection with iDRAC credentials
Command for Linux:
dsu --use-idrac-passthrough
Command for Windows:
dsu --use-idrac-passthrough
Input inventory
Allows users to specify the inventory information in a file. DSU takes the information instead of inventorying for determining the
applicable updates. Inventory Collector output and multi system inventory are provided with this option. If the input of inventory
file is invalid, then INVALID_INVENTORY is returned.
Command Syntax for Linux:
dsu --input-inventory-file=<Inventory XML file>
Command Syntax for Windows:
dsu --input-inventory-file=<Inventory XML file>
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