Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell Update Packages User's Guide
- Getting Started
- What’s new in this release
- DUP event viewer
- Zip pack elimination
- Slot information for hard drive
- Dependency
- Supported Operating Systems
- Prerequisites
- Prerequisites And Features For Systems Running Linux
- Prerequisites and Features for Systems Running Windows
- Downloading DUPs
- Downloading DUPs through Repository Manager
- Installing Device Drivers
- Installation Order of DUPs
- Best practices for using DUPs
- Other Documents You May Need
- Contacting Dell
- Using Dell Update Packages
- Update and Rollback in Lifecycle Controller Enabled Server
- Command Line Interface Reference
- Linux Troubleshooting
- Known Issues
- Diagnostic Tasks Will Not Run While a DUP Reboot is Pending
- Abnormal Termination of a DUP
- Error While Loading Shared Libraries
- Insufficient Free Physical Memory to Load the BIOS Image
- Kernel Panic While Running Storage Controller Firmware Update Packages
- Loss of Functionality While Renaming Linux DUPs
- DUPs Fail on 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating System
- DUP Update of Firmware Might Fail While Running in the UEFI Mode
- Messages
- DUP Message Logs
- Known Issues
- Troubleshooting for Systems Running Windows
- Trusted Platform Module and BitLocker Support
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 User Account Control
- Frequently Asked Questions
Getting Started
A Dell Update Package (DUP) is a self-contained executable in a standard package format that updates a single software element on the
system.
Using DUPs, you can update a wide range of system components and apply scripts to similar sets of Dell systems to bring the system
components to the same version levels.
NOTE: On Dell’s 12th generation of PowerEdge servers onwards, iDRAC and Lifecycle Controller has common DUP
update.
NOTE: OS Collector inventory and update support available with Dell’s 12th generation of PowerEdge servers onwards.
You can use DUPs to:
• Apply an individual update to a system by using an interactive command line interface (CLI).
• Install device drivers in interactive and non-interactive modes.
• Execute multiple updates on the system by using a script comprised of non‑interactive commands that you write using the CLI
feature.
• Leverage the scheduling of your operating system and software distribution utilities to apply updates remotely to any number of
systems.
Topics:
• What’s new in this release
• DUP event viewer
• Zip pack elimination
• Slot information for hard drive
• Dependency
• Supported Operating Systems
• Prerequisites
• Prerequisites And Features For Systems Running Linux
• Prerequisites and Features for Systems Running Windows
• Downloading DUPs
• Downloading DUPs through Repository Manager
• Installing Device Drivers
• Installation Order of DUPs
• Best practices for using DUPs
• Other Documents You May Need
• Contacting Dell
What’s new in this release
• There are no new features in this release.
NOTE:
For detailed information on various Dell systems and operating systems on which DUP is supported, see the
Dell
Systems Software Support Matrix
at dell.com/openmanagemanuals.
DUP event viewer
The event viewer log captures the DUP execution status along with the details of that particular component which updated.
For Windows operating systems DUP generates the event log in the event viewer <application logs> folder and the corresponding
instances get generated.
For the Linux operating systems DUP generates the event log in the </var/log/messages> folder.
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