HP Smart Update Manager 4.2 User Guide
Table Of Contents
- HP Smart Update Manager User Guide
- Abstract
- Notice
- Contents
- Introduction
- HP Smart Update Manager overview
- Using this guide
- New features of HP SUM 4.2.0
- Minimum requirements
- Supported deliverables overview
- Deployment from HP SUM
- Executing HP SUM
- Deploying software using the ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) for Microsoft Windows
- Deploying software using the Integrity Support Pack (ISP) for Microsoft Windows
- Deploying software using the ProLiant Support Pack for Linux
- Deploying firmware for ProLiant servers using the HP Smart Update Firmware DVD
- Deploying firmware using the HP Smart Update Firmware - HP Integrity BL860c/BL870c/BL890c i2 Servers Bundles
- HP SUM User Interface
- Deployment scenarios
- Keyboard support
- Local host installations
- Multiple-host installations
- Selecting remote hosts or groups
- Searching for remote hosts
- Managing hosts
- Managing groups
- Entering credentials for hosts
- Selecting bundles to filter on multiple hosts
- Selecting components to install on multiple hosts
- Updating Firmware on HP Integrity BL860c/BL870c/BL890c i2 Servers
- Viewing the installation results for multiple hosts
- Scripted deployment
- Advanced topics
- Troubleshooting
- Recovering from a failed ROM upgrade
- Recovering from an installation failure
- Recovering from a discovery failure
- Recovering from a loss of Linux remote functionality
- Recovering from a blocked program on Microsoft Windows
- Recovering from operating system limitations when using a Japanese character set
- Recovering from Fatal Error - application will exit message
- Recovering from a missing reboot message when running on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9
- Recovering a lost HP Smart Update Manager connection
- Troubleshooting HP Smart Update Manager in IPv6 networks
- HP SUM found new hardware message
- Non-matching systems error reported when building source Linux RPMs or installing Linux RPMs built from source
- Linux component version discrepancy for source RPMs
- HP SUM displays No components found in the selected repository(ies) message
- Additional/Optional Actions columns are grayed when HP SUM is maximized
- Installation of components failed with 'Update returned an error' when installing Linux RPMs
- Issues related to bundle filtering on the Select Items to be Installed and Select Bundle Filter screens
- HP SUM fails on Windows Vista® due to McAfee firewalls
- Technical support
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- Index

HP SUM User Interface 43
Installation options
You can specify firmware upgrade behavior for installable components by selecting one or more options
from the Additional Options field.
CAUTION: Updating the firmware while a shared device is in use can lead to data loss. Before
enabling the Allow Shared Devices
option, be sure any other servers sharing the selected devices
are offline.
• Select Allow Downgrades to downgrade the current firmware to an older version.
• Select Allow Rewrites to enable HP Smart Update Manager to overwrite the current firmware version
with the same version.
• Select Allow Shared Devices to upgrade firmware in a shared storage environment.
NOTE: HP Smart Update Manager does not support Allow Downgrades or Allow Rewrites for
the HP Virtual Connect Ethernet and Fibre Channel Modules for c-Class BladeSystem firmware
component.
The following table illustrates how changing the options for firmware upgrade behavior changes the
firmware upgrade results. In this example, the array controller is assumed to be an HP Smart Array 6402
controller.
If the existing array controller has firmware version 3.00 installed, then updating the firmware produces the
following results.
Default Allow downgrades Allow rewrites
Firmware upgrade v3.05
3.05 3.05 3.05
Firmware upgrade v3.10
3.10 3.10 3.10
If the existing array controller has firmware version 3.10 installed, then updating the firmware produces the
following results.