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
Introduction 18
HP SUM stores host and group information from session to session. However, user names, passwords, and
existing credentials are not stored in a session or from session to session.
Use OA version 2.51 or later to get a list of all major firmware versions deployed in your enclosure, using the
Rack Firmware link on the main OA web page. HP supports the current and two previous versions of the HP
Smart Update Firmware DVD.
NOTE: The Onboard Administrator and Virtual Connect Ethernet and Fibre Channel Modules
are supported only in online deployments on HP ProLiant servers.
NOTE: You can add firmware components to the USB drive key in the /hp/swpackages
directory.
IMPORTANT: Before deploying firmware updates to a target server, be sure that a recent backup
of the target server is available in the event the deployment procedure fails.
For more information about deploying firmware on HP ProLiant servers, see the HP Smart Update Firmware
DVD User Guide on the HP website
(http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DocumentIndex.jsp?contentType=SupportManu
al&lang=en&cc=us&docIndexId=64179&taskId=101&prodTypeId=18964&prodSeriesId=345557).
NOTE: Currently, HP SUM cannot be used to deploy firmware on HP Integrity servers except for
HP Integrity BL860c/BL870c/BL890c i2 Servers.
HP SUM supported firmware for HP ProLiant servers
Component Supported
HP ProLiant ML/DL/SL series System ROM
Yes
HP Workstation WS460c G6 Blade ROM
Yes, offline only
HP ProLiant Blade Servers ROM
Yes
HP ProLiant 100-series Servers ROM
Yes
iLO 2 firmware
Yes, local and remote
iLO 3 firmware
3
Yes, local and remote
LO-100 firmware
3
Yes
Broadcom NIC firmware
Yes
Intel® NIC firmware
No
QLogic NIC firmware
Yes, offline only
Mellanox NIC firmware
Yes
Power Management Controller firmware
Yes
Smart Array Controller firmware
Yes
SAS and SATA hard drive firmware behind Smart Array controllers
Yes
SAS and SATA hard drive firmware behind non-Smart Array
controllers
No