Users Guide

Creating custom update groups
To create custom update groups:
1. In DLCI for SC2012 VMM, click Maintenance Center, and then click Maintenance Settings.
2. In Maintenance Settings, click Update Groups, and then click Create.
The Firmware Update Group page is displayed.
3. Provide the details, and select the type of update group that you want to create.
Custom update groups can have servers only form the following update group types:
• Generic host update group — consists servers from default unassigned update groups and host
update groups.
• Host update group — consists servers from default host update groups.
4. To add servers in the update group, search for the servers using their service tag, and click Save.
Modifying custom update groups
Consider the following when you are modifying a custom update group:
• You cannot change the type of an update group after it is created.
• To move servers from one custom update group to another custom update group:
– Remove the server from the existing custom update group. Then It is automatically added into the
predefined update group.
– Now edit the custom group to add the server into, and then search for the server using the service
tag.
To modify a custom update group:
1. In DLCI for SC2012 VMM, click Maintenance Center, and then click Maintenance Settings.
2. In Maintenance Settings, click Update Groups, select the update group, and then click Edit to
modify the update group.
Deleting custom update groups
Consider the following when you are deleting a custom update group in the following circumstances:
• You cannot delete an update group if it has a job scheduled, in-progress, or waiting.
• You can delete an update group even if servers are present in that update group. However, after
deleting such an update group, the servers are moved to their respective predefined update groups.
To delete a custom update group:
1. In DLCI for SC2012 VMM, click Maintenance Center, and then click Maintenance Settings.
2. In Maintenance Settings, click Update Groups, select the update group, and then click Delete to
delete the update group.
Applying updates on servers
You can apply immediate updates or schedule the updates on servers or on a group of servers by
creating firmware update jobs. The jobs created for updates are listed under Job Viewer. Also, you can
downgrade the firmware version to the suggested version by selecting Allow Downgrade. If this option is
not selected, then there is no action on the component that requires a firmware downgrade.
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