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
Redundant message displayed on Windows console while
using remote option.
To avoid redundant messages the command prompt needs to be restarted. For example: Number of systems complete:
5/5 100% Number of systems complete: 4/5 80%
The system IP address on the DSU's Log file displayed is
not correct.
On some cases the Virtual IP address is captured by DSU in place of OS IP, in such scenarios the IP address displayed will not be
correct.
On the remote systems running SUSE Linux 15 servers, the
remote system is unable get connected after a restart.
This is due to the firewall which could be enabled after a restart.
Host System displays an error message as "unknown option
provided in DSU" when the option UseLatestDSU=FALSE
mentioned in config file
Set the value of attribute value as TRUE. If the lesser version of DSU installed on target system all the functionality or the
options for remote feature is not enabled hence following message can be thrown in the case.
While using --push-remote-updates option on
systems running SUSE Linux operating systems , updates
failure message is observed.
Reason for failure message is the updates fails to download on the host system.
In such scenarios try using option --source-type=REPOSITORY along with --source-location=<repo-location>.
Libgpme library not found, on Ubuntu operating systems to
run any DSU command.
Error occurs when libgpgme library not found on the host system.
Solution: libgpgme library is one of the dependency for DSU. Please install it on your host system
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Frequently asked questions