HP Smart Update Manager 4.0.1 User Guide

Introduction 7
NOTE: HP SUM does not support third-party controllers. This includes flashing hard drives
behind these controllers.
Using this guide
HP SUM is delivered with many different deliverables. A deliverable is an HP product which contains HP
SUM and a set of firmware or software components. Some examples are the ProLiant Support for
Windows and the HP Smart Update Firmware DVD. It is important that you review the overview section
after this section for your deliverable to verify any specific limitations to HP SUM features that apply.
Then, you can review the sections describing the features of HP SUM. For more information, see the
Supported deliverables overview (on page 10) section.
New features of HP SUM 4.0.x
HP SUM has completed support for the input file functionality.
Minimum requirements
• Minimum requirements for Windows operating systems ("Minimum requirements for Windows
servers" on page 7)
• Minimum requirements for Linux ("Minimum requirements for Linux x86 servers" on page 8)
NOTE: For Linux and Windows operating systems, the respective device drivers for the
embedded/add-on devices in the target servers must be installed for HP SUM to discover the
devices.
NOTE: For a current list of supported operating systems on ProLiant servers, see the PSP
website (http://www.hp.com/servers/psp
).
Minimum requirements for Windows servers
To successfully deploy HP SUM on HP ProLiant and Integrity target systems based on a Windows®
operating system, the following must be available:
• A local administrative system with 512 MB of memory
• Sufficient hard-drive space of at least twice the file size of the components to be deployed
• WMI enabled
• All remote host servers connected to the same network and use TCP/IP to enable the systems to be
seen by the administrative system
• An account with administrator privileges on each host server
HP recommends that the user name and password for the administrator account on each host server
are the same as those on the local administrative system. If administrator privileges are not set up in
this manner, you must have the user name and password for each remote server available.
Alternatively, you can use a domain account on the local administrative system that has
administrator privileges on the host servers.