Owner's Manual

Note: For a detailed table of supported Dell systems and operating
systems, see the 'Dell Systems Software Support Matrix' available
on the Dell Support website at "dell.com/support/manuals."
INSTALLATION
SUU is a stand-alone application that runs directly from a DVD. For
more information on installing SUU, see the "Dell OpenManage
Server Update Utility User's Guide."
Note: Only users with administrator (Microsoft Windows) or root (Linux)
privileges can perform updates with SUU.
USER NOTES
This section provides information to help enhance your experience with
SUU in specific implementations and environments.
• If you launch SUU from a command shell and then press <Ctrl><c>, the
SUU procedure, as well as any running updates, will terminate.
(137862)
• When you launch SUU, the utility inventories the targeted system.
Depending on the system configuration, this process may take several
minutes to complete. (138439)
• The figures and examples in the "Dell OpenManage Server Update
Utility User's Guide" are used as examples only and may not be
identical to the SUU GUI. (137294, 136624)
• When you verify the SUU return codes, use the operating system-
specific commands to view the exit codes. (137296)
For example:
Microsoft Windows: echo %ERRORLEVEL%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: echo $?
• SUU repository carries OS driver packs used by USC. But users cannot
use SUU application to update the OS driver packs.
KNOWN ISSUES
This section provides information about known issues with this release
of SUU.
• When you run power supply firmware update on Xen6.2, though the update is successful,
• With SLES 11 SP3(Unsupported OS) when BIOS is updated, the system hangs after
reboot(BITS073273).
• On R915 server with RHEL5.9x86_64 operating system, SAS/SATA BackPlane firmware does not
get inventoried with SUU Comparison report (BITS087966)