Users Guide

ManualsBrandsDell ManualsSoftwareDell Update Packages Version 6.1

4 Contents

2 Using Dell Update Packages . . . . . . . . . 15

Before You Begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Develop Your System Update Plan

. . . . . . . . . 15

Acquiring DUPs

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Update Packages Component and

System Compatibility

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Executing DUPs

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Verifying the Digital Signature

. . . . . . . . . . . 19

Compatibility Concerns

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Effects of Applying the Updates

on a Running System

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Delivering DUPs to Your Systems

. . . . . . . . . . 24

Updating Many Systems

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Confirming the Update

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Update and Rollback in Unified Server

Configurator Lifecycle Controller

Enabled (USC LCE)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Update in USC LCE

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Rollback in USC LCE

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Typical Usage Scenarios

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Scenario One—Retasking a System

. . . . . . . . 28

Scenario Two — BIOS Update

for 200 Systems

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

3 Command Line Interface

Reference

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Using the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

CLI Options

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Exit Codes for CLI

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36