Users Guide

Viewing update groups
To view update groups:
1. In OMIMSSC, click Maintenance Center and then click Maintenance Settings.
2. In Maintenance Settings, click Update Groups.
All the custom groups created are displayed with name, group type, and number of servers in the group.
Creating custom update groups
1. In OMIMSSC console, 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 a group name and description. And select the type of update group that you want to create.
Custom update groups can have servers only from the following update group types:
● Generic update group—consists servers from default unassigned update groups and default host update groups.
● Host update group—consists servers from default host update groups.
Also, you can have a combination of servers from the two types of server groups.
4. To add servers in the update group, search for the servers by using their service tag, and to add servers into the Servers
Included in the Update Group table, click the right arrow.
5. To create the custom update group, click Save.
Modifying custom update groups
Consider the following points 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, you can:
1. Remove the server from an existing custom update group. It is then automatically added into the predefined update
group.
2. Edit the custom group to add the server into, and then search for the server by using the service tag.
1. In OMIMSSC, 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 points 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.
● Delete the scheduled jobs associated with a custom update group before deleting the server group.
1. In OMIMSSC, 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 filters
Apply filters to view selected information in the comparison report.
The OMIMSSC Appliance supports three categories of filters:
● Nature Of Update—select to filter and view only the selected type of updates on servers.
● Component Type —select to filter and view only the selected components on servers.
● Server Model —select to filter and view only the selected server models.
NOTE: You cannot export and import server profiles if the filters are applied.
To apply filters:
In OMIMSSC, click Maintenance Center, click the filters drop-down menu, and then select the filters.
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