Update Bundle files

Thanks for posting!  If I understand your question correctly, you need to download the latest DVD ISO for the Dell Server Updates disk.  Once you have that, you can import the correct system bundles into IT Assistant, and run a compliance report on your servers, then deploy the updates as you see fit.

Which software are you using? You can create custom bundle with both SUU (Server update utility - now the PowerEdge Update DVD) or ITA (OpenManage IT Assistant).

 

In both of these software, the semantics of a custom bundle is a subset of system bundle. If you are doing updates on 1 or 2 systems, you would use SUU way, else to push updates to the network, use ITA.

 

ITA also allows you to push an indvidual package to all the servers, if you don't want to push the whole system/custom bundle.

 

You cannot combine packages from 2 bundles to create a custom bundle, using either of SUU or ITA. Does that answer you question? The User's Guide contains detailed instructions.

Actually, yes, you can.  Theoretically.  Instead of using that SUU ISO.  Get the bunldes from dells ftp site. or use your current XML bundled file for whichever poweredge model... example,

 

PE2950-WIN-R162286.XML

 

This file is what ITA uses to look for updates for a specific model when doing a compliance.  In this XML file you will find a "contents" section

 

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=this is the contents of v250 bundle package.

 

You should be able (if you know that a more recent bios/driver/firmware is available is used for that specific model) to modify that contents listing, download the bios/driver/firmware from the ftp site and then reload the new catalog bundle xml file.

 

But you have to know what the file is and the model that it works with... bios is easy because in the ftp site it list the model number for each bios as well as in the ftp site there is a revision date.... so just compare your current one to the one on there ftp site..

 

 

Hope this helps! not sure if thats what you were looking for.