Users Guide

Overview

DELL EMC System Update (DSU) is an application used to distribute Dell updates for Linux and Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.

The DSU distributes:

• OpenManage Server Administrator

• BIOS, driver and rmware updates for dierent servers

DSU for Linux:

DSU extensively uses Yum and Zypper.

• Yellowdog Updater, Modied

Yellowdog Updater, Modied (YUM) is an open source command line package management utility used for Linux Operating Systems.

Yellowdog Updater, Modied (YUM) primarily helps to perform automatic updates, package and dependency management, mainly for

RedHat Package Manager (RPM) based distributions. Yellowdog Updater, Modied (YUM) has a command line interface and it is

implemented in the Python programming language and it also has a good informational output syntax.

• Zypper

Zypper is used for installing, removing, updating, and querying software packages of local and remote networked media. It has been

extensively used for the openSUSE Operating Systems. It is a package management engine that powers Linux applications like Yet

another Setup Tool (YaST). Zypper can download several update packages, and install them at once. Zypper is one of the fastest and

powerful package manager for the Linux environment.

DSU for Microsoft Windows:

DSU supports Microsoft Windows Operating System from 1.4.0 release onwards.

Topics:

• What is new in this release

• Other documents you might need

What is new in this release

This release of DSU supports the following new feature:

• Support for new options in DSU.

– Updating systems remotely:

◦ --remote

◦ --push-remote-updates

– Enhancing the Update feature:

◦ --apply-upgrades

◦ --apply-downgrades

◦ --apply-equivalents

– Providing the installer locations on Linux and Windows systems:

6 Overview