Users Guide

About Dell OpenManage Server Update Utility

Dell OpenManage Server Update Utility (SUU) is an application available in ISO for identifying and applying updates to the system.

SUU is no longer DVD-based application, copy the ISO onto a USB drive or on the network drive.

You can use SUU to update the Dell PowerEdge system or to view the updates available for system that supports SUU. SUU

compares the versions of components currently installed on the system with the versions of the components packaged on the Dell

PowerEdge Server Update Utility media.

SUU displays a comparison report of the versions and provides various options for updating the components.

NOTE: Only users with administrator (Microsoft Windows) or root (Linux) privileges can perform updates using SUU.

NOTE: SUU carries updates only for Dell’s 10th generation to Dell’s 13th generation of PowerEdge servers. The SUU ISO

is split into four for Microsoft Windows 32–bit and 64– bit and Linux 32–bit and 64–bit operating system.

Key features and functionalities

This section describes key features and functionalities of Dell OpenManage Server Update Utility (SUU).

Table 1. Features and Functionalities

Feature Description

Prerequisite Failure Messages List of error messages displayed when the prerequisite conditions are not met. For

more information, see Prerequisite Failure Messages.

Fixing Prerequisite Failures Allows you to fix the hardware or software prerequisite failures. For more information,

see Fixing the Software Prerequisite Failure and Fixing the Hardware Prerequisite

Failure.

Comparison Report Displays a list of component versions installed on the system that do not match the

versions on the repository. For more information, see Comparison Report.

Upgrading or Downgrading or Updating

System Components

Allows you to upgrade, downgrade, or update the system components if the versions

vary from the repository version. For more information, see Upgrading System

Components, Downgrading System Components, and Updating System Component.

Launching SUU in a GUI mode or from

Network Location

Enables you to run SUU, upgrade, downgrade, update components on multiple

systems. For more information, see Launching SUU in a GUI mode.

CLI Commands Displays the list of commands to perform comparisons and updates in the CLI mode.

For more information, see List of CLI Commands.

Dependency Feature which provides information about the available updates for a device. SUU

enables certain tools and applications to determine if a set of conditions or

requirements are met. These conditions or requirements are called dependencies.

Following are the types of dependency: Pre-requisites and Corequisites. For more

information, see

Comparison Report.

What's new in this release

• Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2016.