You can push out updates with IT Assistant . Once you have the servers discovered in ITA, then you can push out the updates. The link below is to the ITA user guide.

 

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You could install OpenManage IT Assistant (ITA) on one system, which becomes your management station. Using this, you could push out the updates to the systems in the network.

 

To install updates, you should have OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) installed on each of the managed PowerEdge Servers. Installing OMSA makes your managed server instrumented and manageable (e.g. by setting various thresholds for monitoring the health). If you haven't already installed OMSA, you could use ITA itself to push out OMSA to each server. This can be done by creating a "Software Deploy" task in ITA. Once you install OMSA, make appropriate configurations (SNMP etc), discover and inventory the systems from ITA. They should get correctly classified under the "Servers" group.

 

Then you could use ITA to uptate BIOS, firmware and Drivers on all of these servers. You can either use the "Online Repository" feature of ITA (that will periodically get the latest updates from Dell website), or you could obtain the updates from a OpenManage Update DVD (Server Update Utility - SUU DVD), and import them into ITA Repository. Perform "Compliance" in ITA to get a list of servers that need to be updated. Then create a "Software Update" task to push out the updates in a scheduled fashion. This approach can be used for the PowerEdge and PowerVault systems in your network.

 

For updating the Clients (Desktop, workstation etc), if you are running older versions of the client instrumentation (OMCI), you could use Openmanage Client Connector (OMCC) in conjunction with ITA to manage them. Using OMCC, you can update the BIOS on the clients. For newer systems, you may want to consider using Dell Client Manager (DCM) instead of OMCC/OMCI.