User's Manual

28 Using Dell Update Packages

the UEFI environment and is updated with new inventory information.

Deployed versions are logged in the LCL. Update packages are not

downloaded from the Dell FTP website if the repository already contains the

latest version. After successfully downloading, verifying, and extracting the

DUP payload, the corresponding devices are updated using the DUP payload

and the available UEFI based update tools. If the update fails, error messages

are displayed and a completion status, success or failure, is logged in the LCL.

NOTE: DUPs are enhanced to leverage the flash storage space to apply updates.

These DUPs accomplish update tasks by staging update images in the storage

space, registering tasks in the System Service Information Block (SSIB), and cause

your system to reboot into the System Service Manager (SSM) in which the tasks

are executed. Rollback is not supported in a customer operating system

environment.

Typical Usage Scenarios

Scenario One — Retasking a System

You are the system administrator for a large company. Your group requires an

additional system to support a new financial analysis package, and you have

access to a Dell system that is no longer in use, from another department

within the company. Because the Dell system has an older operating system

installed on it, you plan to upgrade the operating system before installing the

new financial application. You also plan to install the most current BIOS and

ESM firmware offered by Dell, as well as install the Dell OpenManage Server

Administrator systems management software.

To prepare the system to run the company's new financial software, perform

the following general steps:

Use the

Dell Systems Management Tools and Documentation

DVD that

came with the Dell system to install the most current version of the

Red Hat

Enterprise Linux

AS operating system.

Log on to

support.dell.com

, select

Drivers and Downloads

and enter the

Dell hardware service tag for the Dell system. Otherwise, you can also

select the

Model

Locate the BIOS and ESM firmware DUPs for the Dell system and

download them.

Additionally, download the Server Administrator application.