Users Guide

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Overview
The Dell Repository Manager (RM) allows you to create repositories of
customized bundles and updates, and groups of related updates for systems
running supported Microsoft
Windows or Linux operating systems. This
facilitates generation of comparison reports and establishing update baselines
of repositories. The customized bundles and repositories are made up of Dell
Update Packages (DUPs) based on operating systems supported, update
types, form factor and line of business. DUPs are software utilities provided by
Dell to update specific software components on Dell PowerEdge systems,
Dell desktops, and Dell laptops. By using RM, you can ensure that your
Dell PowerEdge system, Dell desktop or Dell laptop is equipped with the
latest BIOS, driver, firmware, and software updates. The DUPs are modified
periodically to indicate the latest updates for your systems. You can arrange
these components in bundles to group the related updates together. Every
repository has a catalog.xml or catalog.cab file that specifies the contents of a
repository.
You can deploy the repository through bootable ISO images, raw driver packs,
deployment scripts, or Server Update Utilities (SUU).
RM can run in two modes — Server and Client.
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