Users Guide

Using Dell Update Packages 31
4 Use the software distribution tool to create an update task that delivers the
BIOS DUP to all the systems in the network.
The update task is a script that invokes the BIOS DUP and uses the
CLI
-r -q > redirect_output.log options to ensure that the system is
rebooted when necessary.
Because this BIOS DUP executes only on a Dell system, you can plan
on distributing this to all systems regardless of the system model type.
The DUP does not affect other systems.
5 Use the software distribution tool to schedule the BIOS update task to run
on all systems at 2:00 A.M. this coming Saturday, which falls within the
allotted 4-hour maintenance window.
6 On Sunday morning, you log in to your system and check the execution
results report within the software distribution tool and determine that
180 of your 200 systems successfully applied the BIOS update.
7 The attempted BIOS update on the remaining 20 systems returned the
information that the update was not required.
8 Log on to one of the 20 systems and check the BIOS package's
redirect_output.log file.
You confirm that on these 20 systems, the BIOS version was already up–to–date
because these systems were those most recently purchased from Dell.
You have successfully completed the BIOS update process for the company.