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The following groups are created after a fresh installation of OMIMSSC:

◘ Default Host Group – servers that are running Windows or are synchronized with a registered

Microsoft console.

◘ Default unassigned Group – all the unassigned, or bare-metal servers.

◘ Default non-windows host group – servers that are running operating systems other than

Windows.

◘ Chassis Update Group – one group created for every modular server.

◘ Cluster Update Group – one group created for every windows failover cluster which contains all

their nodes.

Recommendation: Performing updates on a batch of servers could be for a site-based maintenance or

maintenance of specific systems. You need to create custom group for these batch of servers and

perform non-complaint update remediation on individual groups.

 Compliance Report: The statistical report comparing the components in the Update Source to your

discovered devices. The Available Updates icon indicator color is based on the criticality of the update.

OMIMSSC has defined three colors for the same:

o Red: One or more critical update required in a server or selected update group.

o Yellow: No critical updates but few recommended updates available.

o Green: All firmware versions are up to date.

Polling & Notifications: To identify whether there is any latest update source being published by Dell

EMC.

2.1. Understanding the Solution

OMIMSSC uses WSMAN command to connect with remote systems, ensure the require outbound ports

are open on your system.

You can schedule your update task or run it immediately. Time required to finish this update task

depends upon number of devices in upgrade group and total number of components for these devices.

Make use of Jobs & Logs page to view the progress of the specific update task. Once the task finishes,

refresh the inventory to see the latest compliance.

Other key points:

- While updating certain components the server requires intermittent restart which is internally handled by

the iDRAC and the DUP (Dell Update Package)

- Firmware update job will FAIL if the operation fails on even one device of the update group.