HP SUM provides three ways of running for users:

HP SUM supports local and remote deployments. HP SUM runs in Windows and Linux in online and offline mode. For more information about deployment modes, see Deployment modes.

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NOTE: You cannot use Windows Hyper-V systems to run HP SUM and deploy updates. You can select Hyper-V systems as a target from HP SUM.

Use the following table to determine the correct execution mode for the server use case.

[Note]

NOTE: Before deploying software updates to a target server, be sure that a recent backup of the target server is available in the event the deployment procedure fails.

Scenario

Description

HP SUM command

HP deliverable

Interactive, graphical deployment on a local host

Run HP SUM on the server being updated.

Use this scenario when you:

  • Are not familiar with command line tools

  • Are deploying components on a local, single host

  • Do not require scripting

  • Want to select the components to be installed

  • Windows:

    hpsum

  • Linux:

    ./hpsum

  • Online:

    • HP Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP)

  • Offline:

    • HP SPP

Scripted deployment on a local host

Run HP SUM from a network share on a local server.

Use this scenario when you:

  • Are familiar with command line tools

  • Are deploying components on a local, single host

  • Must perform a customized, scripted deployment

  • Are unable to unlock the required HP SUM network ports for remote deployment

  • Windows:

    hpsum -s

  • Linux:

    ./hpsum -s

  • Online:

    • HP SPP

  • Offline:

    None

Interactive, graphical deployment to a remote host

Run HP SUM from a workstation and update remote hosts over the network using the GUI.

Use this scenario when you:

  • Are not familiar with command line tools

  • Do not require scripting

  • Want to select the components to be installed

  • Need to update multiple targets including OA, VC, and server-based firmware

  • Need to select individual firmware to update

  • Need to select individual hardware devices to be updated

  • Need to target VMware host servers

  • Windows:

    hpsum

  • Linux:

    ./hpsum

    Targets can be a Windows, Linux, or VMware ESXi 5.0 server, OA, iLO, or VC IP address or DNS name.

  • Online:

    • HP SPP

    • HP Integrity Smart Update Firmware bundles

  • Offline:

    None

Scripted deployment to a remote host

Run HP SUM from a workstation and update a remote host over the network using scripts.

Use this scenario when you:

  • Are familiar with command line tools

  • Must perform a customized, scripted deployment

  • Need to update multiple targets including OA, VC, and server-based firmware

  • Need to update all enclosure firmware

  • Need to target VMware host servers

  • Windows:

    hpsum -s -target Target1 -target Target2 -username User1 -password PW1

  • Linux:

    ./hpsum -s -target Target1 -target Target2 -username User1 -password PW1

  • Online:

    • HP SPP

    • HP Integrity Smart Update Firmware bundles

  • Offline:

    SmartStart Scripting Toolkit (G7 and older)

    Scripting Toolkit (Gen8 and older)

Automatic Deployment to one or more servers in a HP BladeSystem enclosure

Use the HP SPP with embedded HP SUM to deploy firmware updates to one or more blades automatically.

Use this scenario when you:

  • Do not have an operating system installed on a server blade

  • Want an automatic way to deploy firmware updates

  • Do not require log files or user interaction with the installation process

  • Want to update multiple blades in an enclosure in a single operation

The HP SPP takes care of this automatically

  • Online:

    None

  • Offline:

    • HP SPP

Update an existing enclosure manually

The same scenario as shown in the “Interactive, graphical deployment to a remote host” or “Scripted deployment to a remote host” scenarios discussed previously in this table

  • Windows:

    hpsum

  • Linux:

    ./hpsum

  • Online:

    • HP SPP

  • Offline:

    • HP SPP