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
Failure message is observed while creating a bootable ISO
through DSU.
[FAILED] Failed to start Startup script for DTK
Please check 'systemctl status start-script.service' for details”
The message that is displayed can be ignored as it does not have any impact while creating a bootable ISO.
Unable to access network location
Description: When you try to access, file over SMB2 network share that is hosted on any windows operating system, the
following error message is displayed intermittently Unable to access network location
Work around:
1. Close all the open share connections.
2. Sign out and sign in to the machine to close the connection to the share network.
A message is displayed when running any DSU command
Description: When run only a single instance of DSU on Linux operating system, the following message is displayed DSU
already in use
Work around: Delete the temporary files in the following location (/temp/DSUINACTION.txt) and run the commands again.
Failure in updating firmware
Description:When updating firmware, dup fails and prompts an error message.
Workaround: If you face any issue when updating servers using DSU, see the specific DUP Release Notes for more information.
Outputs are displayed with no model numbers
Description: When performed multiple updates, few Servers (Remote Hosts) display output without Model Number and few
servers are displayed with Model Server.
Work around: Multiple server updates support only on physical server.
DSU displays partial inventory
Description: DSU displays partial inventory on the console.
Work around: Check the IC log at C:\ProgramData\Dell\Dell EMC System Update\dell_dup on microsoft windows and /usr/
libexec/dell_dup for linux operating systems to get more information about the inventory not displayed.
Issue faced during multiple selections of update
Description:Unable to select multiple updatable components.
Work around: To select multiple updates, user has to use "space." Special characters like comma are not supported for multiple
selections.
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