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
Support Matrix
This section lists the hardware, operating systems and PowerEdge servers required to install Dell System Update.
Topics:
• Supported hardware
• Supported Operating Systems
Supported hardware
The following topic provides information on the hardware requirement to install Dell System Update.
Prerequisites
To install through iDRAC on iDRAC9 based PowerEdge Servers, minimum version of iDRAC 3.30.30.30 and later is required.
About this task
DSU 1.7 and later versions does not support remote update through iDRAC7 and iDRAC8
Supported Operating Systems
This section describes the list of supported Linux and Windows operating systems.
NOTE:
Community-based distribution site such as Fedora, CentOS, and open SUSE are not tested with Dell Linux
repository.
DSU 1.9.1.0 supports Hyper Converged Infrastructure operating system.
The following Windows operating systems are supported:
● Windows Server 2012 R2
● Windows Server 2016
● Windows Server 2019
The following Linux operating systems are supported:
● Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3
● Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9
● SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 (x86_64)
● Ubuntu 20.04.01
Supported devices
DSU supports iDRAC7, and later version of Dell EMC PowerEdge severs.
NOTE: Hyper Converged Infrastructure operating system supports only AX-740XD, AX-640, AX-6515 devices.
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