Users Guide

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Integrating Server Update Utility With
Other Components
The different possibilities of integrating SUU with other components are:
• Integrating SUU with OpenManage Essentials
• Creating a custom SUU using Dell Repository Manager
• Exporting as a SUU
Integrating SUU With OpenManage Essentials
OpenManage Essentials is a hardware management application that provides a comprehensive view of
Dell systems, devices, and components in the enterprise’s network. With OpenManage Essentials, a web-
based and one-to-many systems management application for Dell systems and other devices, you can:
• Discover and inventory the systems.
• Monitor systems health.
• View and manage system alerts.
• Perform system updates.
• View hardware inventory and compliance reports.
Selecting a Catalog Source Using SUU
1. Launch OpenManage Essentials.
2. Click Manage → System Update → Select a Catalog Source.
3. Click Use file System source (SUU) .
4. Click Browse and select either the catalog.xml or catalog.cab file.
5. Click Import now.
Creating A Custom SUU Using Dell Repository Manager
You can create a custom SUU for the system using Dell Repository Manager (DRM).
1. Launch DRM.
2. Create or open a repository.
3. Select the bundles you want to export. From the list of displayed bundles, click Export.
4. In the Export Bundles dialog box, click Next.
5. In the Export Destination dialog box, select Export as SUU to ISO and click Next.
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