Unsolved
This post is more than 5 years old
16 Posts
0
26110
Importing Dell Repository Manager catalogs into SCUP
Dell has their SDP catalog from their FTP site that they use for the purposes of publishing their updates to SCUP, so that they can in turn be published to SCCM and distributed to servers that way. However, that particular catalog has close to 3000 updates in it, of which less than 10% of those are actually relevant in our particular situation. I’ve been trying to use the Dell Repository Manager to select only the updates I want and then create a catalog from that. I can create the catalog, but then when I try to import that into SCUP, it doesn’t accept that catalog because it is not formatted properly. Do you know if the Dell Repository Manager can create an SDP-formatted catalog that I can use with SCUP, and if so, how can I go about doing that? Or, if there’s another way I can slim down the catalog and import only the updates I need, that would be helpful to know as well. Thank you.
sdimas
8 Posts
0
September 19th, 2011 14:00
I'm also interested.
johnnyc121
16 Posts
0
September 21st, 2011 09:00
“RM does not support SDP catalog format due to some technical reasons, such as digital sign a SDP catalog at runtime, how to handle re-spin DUP, etc.
As I know, the reason of Dell SDP catalog contains 3000+ updates is because that it does not only contain the new updates, but also includes obsolete/expired updates. This is mainly caused by DUP re-spin, and device team “demoted” releases from ftp.dell.com. When a DUP re-spins, Dell SDP catalog has to contains both previous DUP and the new DUP metadata. The previous DUP will be marked as “expired”. In this case, if a customer SCCM has already contains the previous DUP, then after they apply the new Dell SDP catalog, the old DUP will be replaced correctly. “
sdimas
8 Posts
0
September 21st, 2011 10:00
DELL-Warren B
1.1K Posts
0
September 22nd, 2011 08:00