Users Guide

You can update the selected devices by using the following update sources:
• Online FTP or local FTP source
• Online HTTP or local HTTP source
• Online HTTPS or local HTTPS source
• Local Dell Repository Manager (DRM) source
Steps
1 Create or select a default update source. For more information about update source, see Update source.
NOTE: Ensure that you update the update source with the latest catalog by using the polling and notication feature.
For more information about polling and notication, see Polling and notication.
If you are updating Storage Spaces Direct clusters, select a predened update source specic for Storage Spaces Direct clusters.
These update sources are displayed only in the Maintenance Center page.
If you are updating MX7000 devices, select a predened update source specic for Modular Systems. These update sources are
displayed only in Maintenance Center page.
2 Create or select the default update groups. For more information about update groups, see Update groups.
3 Discover or synchronize the devices with a registered Microsoft console, and ensure that the device inventory is up-to-date. For more
information about discovery and synchronization, see Device discovery and synchronization . For more information about server
inventory, see
Launching server view.
4 Update the device by using one of the following options:
• Select the required devices, and click Run Update. For more information, see Upgrading or downgrading rmware versions using
run update method.
NOTE
: To downgrade the rmware of device components, select the Allow Downgrade check-box. If this option
is not selected, there is no action on the component that requires a rmware downgrade.
• Select the rmware update component in Operational Template and deploy this template. For more information about Operational
Template, see Operational Template.
Conguring replaced components
To match the rmware version, or the conguration settings of the replaced component to that of the old component, see Applying
rmware and conguration settings.
Exporting and importing server proles
About this task
Export the server prole at a particular instance, and then import the prole to reinstate the server:
Steps
1 Create a protection vault. For more information about creating protection vault, see Creating protection vault.
2 Export a server prole. For more information about exporting server prole, see Exporting server prole.
3 Import server prole to the same server from which it was exported. For more information about importing server prole, see
Importing server prole.
NOTE
: You can import the server prole including the RAID conguration only if the RAID conguration is exported to
the prole.
Use cases of OMIMSSC 15