Using HP Smart Update Manager with HP Integrity Servers: Capabilities, Best Practices, and Troubleshooting

Conclusion
HP SUM is a versatile and flexible tool that can manage enclosure, platform and I/O card firmware on HP
Integrity servers. Updating single servers, enclosures or multiple enclosures is possible in a single HP SUM
session. Using HP SUM in the correct manner can help reduce downtime due to firmware upgrades, and
automate the process of upgrading firmware, therefore reducing the complexity of this critical task.
For more information
To read more about HP SUM, go to: hp.com/go/hpsum
Call to action
For detailed support for maintaining firmware on your HP Integrity or other HP servers, please contact your
HP representative or visit: hp.com/go/Integrity or hp.com/go/support
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Glossary
Term
Definition
EFI
Extensible Firmware Interface
A pre-boot environment
Enclosure FW
Firmware for enclosure wide resources, management or I/O
Onboard Administrator FW and Virtual Connect FW for c-Class enclosures
Complex FW for Superdome 2 enclosures
HP SIM
HP Systems Insight Manager
HP SUM
HP Smart Update Manager
I/O Card FW
Firmware for add in and embedded I/O cards
iLO
Integrated Lights Out
OA
Onboard Administrator
OS
Operating System
Platform FW Firmware for the base compute system and embedded management interface:
System FW and iLO on rx2800 i2/i4 and BL8x0c i2/i4
nPartition FW on Superdome 2
SFW
System Firmware
SPP
Service Pack for ProLiant
VC
Virtual Connect
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