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DELL OPENMANAGE SERVER UPDATE UTILITY 7.2.0 README
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This readme provides information for Dell OpenManage Server
Update Utility version 7.2.0
This file also contains updated information for your "Dell OpenManage
Server Update Utility User's Guide" and any other technical
documentation that is included with Server Update Utility (SUU).
See the Dell Support website located at "support.dell.com" for more
information and to download the latest version of SUU.
Note: For information on Dell Update Packages (DUP), see the DUP
Readme files present on the SUU DVD.
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This file contains the following sections:
* CRITICALITY
* Important Information
* Compatibility/Minimum Requirements
* Release Highlights
* Installation
* User Notes
* Known Issues
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CRITICALITY
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3 - Optional
It is recommended that you review the update procedure to determine if
it applies to your system. The update contains changes that may impact
only certain configurations, or provides new features that may/may not
apply to your environment.
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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DUPs for Dell Lifecycle Controller OS Driver packs are no longer
available on the Dell OpenManage Server Update DVD. You can find them
on Dell Lifecycle Controller OS Driver Packs DVD.
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COMPATIBILITY/MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
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This section provides information about the minimum requirements for
SUU 7.2.0.
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SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS
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Microsoft Windows Operating Systems
* Microsoft Windows Server 2012
* Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter and Web x64
Editions with SP2
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* Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter and Web x86
and x64 Editions with SP2
* Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials
* Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard and Premium Editions
* Microsoft Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Standard and Premium Editions (x64) with SP1
* Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 HPC Edition
* Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2008 Basic, Standard, Enterprise and workgroup with SP2
* Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2008 Express, Workgroup, Enterprise and standard with R2
* Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Virtualization Operating Systems
* Microsoft Hyper-V R2 Server
Linux Operating Systems
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 x86_64
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 x86_64
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 update 8 x86
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 update 8 x86_64
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 update 3 x86_64
Virtualization Operating Systems:
* VMware ESX Version 4.1 U3
* Citrix XenServer v6.1
See the "Dell Systems Software Support Matrix" for the latest list of
supported Dell PowerEdge systems and operating systems. The Dell
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Systems Software Support Matrix' is available at
"www.dell.com/support/manuals."
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SUPPORTED WEB BROWSERS
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SUU 7.2.0 supports the following Web browsers:
* Internet Explorer 9.0, Internet Explorer 8.0,
Mozilla Firefox 12.0, Mozilla Firefox 11.0 and Mozilla Firefox 10.0 for Windows
Server 2008 Professional and Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011
* Mozilla Firefox 12.0, Mozilla Firefox 11.0 and Mozilla Firefox 10.0 for :
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
* Mozilla Firefox 12.0, Mozilla Firefox 11.0 and Mozilla Firefox 10.0 for :
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 5.8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 6.3
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SUPPORTED SYSTEMS
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SUU 7.2.0 supports the following PowerEdge systems running the supported
Linux and Windows operating systems:
1950,1900,1955,2950,2900,6950, 2970
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M905,T100,M805,R300,R905,T605,R805,T300,M605, R200, M600, R900, T105
M610,T110II,R210II,M915,M710HD,R415,R515,M610x,R910,R815,M910,R810,R715,R310
T310,R510,R410,M710,T710,T410,R610,T610,R710
R720,T620,R620,M620,R720xd,M420, M520, R520,R420, R320, T420, T320, M820
SC1425, SC1435
SUU 7.2.0 supports the following Dell PowerVault systems running the
supported Windows operating system:
NX1950,DP500/ NF500,NX300,DL2000,DP100/ NF100,DP600/NF600,NX3000,DL2100,NX3100,DL2200
NX3500,NX200, NX400, NX3200 and NX3300.
SUU 7.2.0 supports the following Equallogic systems running the
supported Linux and Windows operating system:
DX6004S, DX6012S,DX6000G,FS7500, DX6000
Note: Other systems and operating systems may be supported in this
release. See the 'Dell Systems Software Support Matrix' for the
latest list of supported PowerEdge systems and operating
systems. The 'Dell Systems Software Support Matrix' is available
on the Dell Support website at "www.dell.com/support/manuals."
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Note: Running SUU 7.2.0 on an unsupported system launches Repository Manager.
Note: For a detailed table of supported Dell systems and operating
systems, see the 'Dell Systems Software Support Matrix' available
on the Dell Support website at www.dell.com/support/manuals.
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INSTALLATION
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SUU is a stand-alone application that runs directly from a DVD. For
more information on installing SUU, see the "Dell OpenManage
Server Update Utility User's Guide."
Note: Only users with administrator (Microsoft Windows) or root (Linux)
privileges can perform updates with SUU.
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USER NOTES
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This section provides information to help enhance your experience with
SUU in specific implementations and environments.
* If you launch SUU from a command shell and then press <Ctrl><c>, the
SUU procedure, as well as any running updates, will terminate.
(137862)
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* When you launch SUU, the utility inventories the targeted system.
Depending on the system configuration, this process may take several
minutes to complete. (138439)
* The figures and examples in the "Dell OpenManage Server Update
Utility User's Guide" are used as examples only and may not be
identical to the SUU GUI. (137294, 136624)
* When you verify the SUU return codes, use the operating system-
specific commands to view the exit codes. (137296)
For example:
Microsoft Windows: echo %ERRORLEVEL%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: echo $?
* SUU repository carries OS driver packs used by USC. But users cannot
use SUU application to update the OS driver packs.
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KNOWN ISSUES
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This section provides information about known issues with this release
of SUU.
* SAS hard disk drive ST973452SS firmware dup update fails on SUSE Linux
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Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (BITS042723)
* 64bit inventory collector will not be able to do the inventory to the
SAS/SATA Backplane and SAS 6Gbps controller card on VMware, ESXi 4.1
Update 3 (BITS053406)
* Intel NIC Firmware update fails on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 update 8
and 6 update 3, if kernel development packages is not installed (BITS053897)
* Intel NIC Firmware update fails on all true x64 Linux operating systems (BITS060720)
* On Microsoft Windows 2012, ORCA XD hard disk drive firmware (52P2Y) update
fails and shows “Device: ST3300657SS, Application: ST3300657SS Firmware”
message (BITS054325)
* On Microsoft Windows 2012, MCBEAN hard disk drive dup (2J5MY) update fails
with following error message "Update Package not compatible with your
system configuration" (BITS052376)
* PET420 iDRAC IP address drops when SUU inventory reaches 58% on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5 update 8 x64 (BITS027415)
* PowerEdge T620 BIOS 64bit DUP(9371G) update fails on true x64 WIN 2K8 R2
Sp1 operating system (BITS057775)
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* Power Edge R520 doesn't have the firmware support for H310 Adaptor (BITS053313)
* H710p Firmware MJY37 DUP update shows mismatch version, due to difference in
payload version (21.1.0-0007) and package version (21.1.0-0006) - (BITS059978)
* If your CERC ATA RAID controllers are configured with the H661
firmware, SUU cannot update the firmware to the latest version.
To update the firmware, use the "-force" option to manually apply
the DUP with the latest firmware version. (134775)
* When updating multiple, identical devices on the same system, SUU
applies the latest update to all instances of all devices. For
example, if your system is configured with three controllers
configured with firmware/driver versions 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4,
and the repository version is 1.4, SUU applies version 1.4 to all
instances of all devices. (136620)
* When you run SUU using the "-p" option, SUU reports the current
instance log location ("suu -p") instead of the SUU instance log
location ("suu -u") that is performing the update. (135925)
* SUU uses DUPs to update various system components. During a Red Hat
Enterprise Linux update, the DUPs create a "/var/lock/.spsetup"
file using the Linux lockfile utility during the initial execution
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procedure. Kernel panics or sudden reboots during DUP execution
(reboots where TERM signals are not sent to running processes or
where running processes do not have time to catch these signals)
can generate a "/var/lock/.spsetup" lock file that cannot be
deleted. SUU reports the update as successful and prompts you
to reboot the system. When you run SUU again on the same system,
the comparison reports no change in device status. If this
situation occurs and no update is in progress, remove
"/var/lock/.spsetup" before running another update on the system.
(137287)
* If a NIC teaming application is installed on the system, SUU updates
the NIC base driver only if the driver is compatible with the
teaming application. To verify driver compatibility, run DUP on the
system to update the driver and read the generated messages.(138648)
* Devices that are disabled in the operating system are not
inventoried or updated by SUU. To update or inventory these devices,
enable the devices in the operating system and then re-launch SUU.
(142111)
* Do not use the RAC/iDRAC virtual media to run SUU remotely on a system.
This procedure breaks the virtual media connection, causing the SUU
update procedure to fail. (144487)
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* SUU fails if it is run from a pathname that contains special
characters. For example, ",:,/,\,$, etc. It is recommended to use
a directory name without any special characters for running
SUU. As an example, a case where you can get directory name
with special characters is:
In the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system, when a
USB DVD-ROM or USB disk is attached, it may by default, mount
to a directory name that contains special characters. For
example, /media/USB:1:2/ (42279)
* In Linux, if there is not enough space in the var partition or tmp
folder, SUU displays the following error message:
"Not enough space available in the /var or /tmp folder. Please
ensure you have atleast 1.5GB."
Ensure that you have sufficient space in the var partition or tmp
folder and restart SUU to start the system inventory. (66118)
* In some cases where the latest Intel NIC driver (Intel PRO
PCIE Gigabit Family of Adapters 9.5, base driver version 9.6.31.0)
is installed as part of Dell Systems Build and Update Utility
(SBUU) install, SUU may not be able to inventory the respective
NIC. This may happen because SBUU would not have installed the
umbrella software. In these cases, install the umbrella with the
umbrella installer (available at support.dell.com or in the SERVICE
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directory on the Dell Systems Management Tools and Documentation
DVD) to get the Intel NIC inventoried by SUU (DF130363).
* When you try to execute SUU on a 64-bit RHEL operating system, it
fails to execute since SUU is a 32-bit application. To work around
this issue, manually install the following RPMs:
glibc.i686
compat-libstdc++.i686
libstdc++.i686
zlib.i686
libxml2.i686
libXp.i686
libXtst.i686
ncurses-libs
pam.i686
* If you use a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system
platform, you require .Net Framework 2.0 to run
Dell_PV_Utils_NASDUP.exe. If .Net Framework 2.0 is not installed,
0xc0000135 error code may be encountered.
* If you login to a system running on Microsoft Windows Small Business
Server 2008 operating system, by default you are logged in as a
regular user even though you may have Administrator privileges. This
is due to an in-built feature called User Account Control (UAC) that
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automatically reduces the potential of security breaches. Before you
run SUU on your system, elevate the privileges for administrators
using Windows security options in Group Policy Editor. For more
information, see the SUU User Guide.
* Defect DF452489 - Export comparison report, in the file Dialogbox
mouse movements are sluggish
To work around the issue, ddd the following line:
"*.multiClickTime: 500"
to the file ~/.Xdefaults and run
xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults
* Defect DF497677 - If an update fails while updating multiple devices
of same type, the comparison report shows that the current version
is updated for all entries of the selected type.
* On all versions of the ESX, following USB connection error messages
generate, these messages can also be ignored.
The following shows a typical message:
Vendor: iDRAC Model: MAS022 Rev: 1.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: iDRAC Model: SECUPD Rev: 0329
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
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* To launch SUU on Linux x64-bit systems from windows CIFS share, user has to mount the
extracted SUU x32 DVD CIFS share using "-o sce=nounix,noserverino" options on SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server 10 & 11, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 & 6.3 OSes (BITS032613).
ex: mount -t cifs -o sce=nounix,noserverino -o username=<user id> <Windows CIFS share> <Linux
mount location>
* SUU 7.2.0 supports native RAID Controller Drivers for PERC5, PERC6 PERC7, SAS5, SAS6
SAS7,CERC5, CERC6 and CERC7 in Microsoft Windows Server 2012 operating system.
* “The Update Package is running on an unsupported new operating system, do you want to continue?”
message will pop-up in Microsoft Windows Server 2012 operating system, because all DUPs are not
recreated based on new DUP framework
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