Hp Smart Update Manager Isosorbide

Being one who commonly has to do upgrades in a variety of environments, I can easily state that HP's Smart Update Manager (SUM), which leverages the SPP as a repository for updates, is one of the. Dec 01, 2014  This entry was posted in Data Center Hardware, ESXi / vSphere, Practice, Servers and tagged Driver Upgrade, Firmware Upgrade, HP, HP SUM, Online Update, ProLiant, Smart Update Manager, VMware ESXi on December 1, 2014 by Ali. Smart Update Manager SUM discovers installed hardware and current versions of firmware, drivers, and system software, provides an update recommendation, and then applies the updates in an efficient order to reduce impact on operations.

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Type:Application - System Management
Version:7.6.0(24 Oct 2016)
Operating System(s):
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Foundation Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 W32
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Essentials
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
Microsoft Windows Server 2016
Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 R2
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File name:hpsum760.zip (116 MB)
File name:contents.txt (172 KB)
HP Smart Update Manager is a product which updates firmware and software on HPE Synergy Compute Modules, HPE ProLiant servers, and firmware on HPE Integrity and HPE ProLiant Moonshot servers. HP SUM has a browser-based GUI; as well as a scriptable interface using legacy command line interface, inputfile, and interactive command line interface modes. For more information, please see the Enterprise Information Library, http://www.hpe.com/info/sum-docs.

Enhancements for HP SUM 7.6.0:

  • Added support for new HPE Synergy Gen9 Compute Modules, HPE ProLiant Gen9 servers, and options
  • Added support for Microsoft Windows Server 2016
  • Baseline - Improved the custom baseline smart component filtering

Prerequisites:

For prerequisite information, please see the HP SUM Release Notes.

To ensure the integrity of your download, HPE recommends verifying your results with the following SHA-256 Checksum values:

5fb687d8e7309e4ca101cdd758a60b7c7b987606ac55b50b553959a21b6fee04contents.txt
0c523fad6b9e02176e5b37a37126ec2e637204f8ae2b8569da7bb4aa60b4a202hpsum760.zip

Reboot Requirement:
Reboot may be required after installation for updates to take effect and hardware stability to be maintained.

End User License Agreements:
HPE Software License Agreement v1
BSD License
gSOAP Software End User License Agreement
Libcurl End User License Agreement
The MIT License Agreement
OpenSSL License Agreement
zlib End User License Agreement
Hewlett-Packard End User License Agreement

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

Important:

Note: To migrate node information from HP SUM 6.x to HP SUM 7.6.0, please run hpsum_migration.bat (Windows) or hpsum_migration.sh (Linux) found in the same directory as HP SUM. See the HP SUM Release Notes for more information.
Note: To migrate node information from HP SUM 5.x to HP SUM 7.6.0, please run port-targets.bat (Windows) or port-targets.sh (Linux) found in the same directory as HP SUM. See the HP SUM Release Notes for more information.
For more information on HP SUM, please see the Enterprise Information Library.

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

See the HP SUM Release Notes for information about the issues resolved in this release.

Note: To migrate node information from HP SUM 6.x to HP SUM 7.6.0, please run hpsum_migration.bat (Windows) or hpsum_migration.sh (Linux) found in the same directory as HP SUM. See the HP SUM Release Notes for more information.
Note: To migrate node information from HP SUM 5.x to HP SUM 7.6.0, please run port-targets.bat (Windows) or port-targets.sh (Linux) found in the same directory as HP SUM. See the HP SUM Release Notes for more information.
For more information on HP SUM, please see the Enterprise Information Library.

Version:8.4.5 (9 Sep 2019)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

Please see the SUM Release Notes for fixes addressed in this release.


Version:8.4.0 (2 Apr 2019)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

Please see the SUM Release Notes for fixes addressed in this release.

• Support for scheduling via iLO Repository.
• Support for rollback and update of recovery sets.
• Support for installing the necessary pre-requisites prior to inventory.
• Handling dependencies for Mellanox components.
• Provide detailed errors upon inventory and deploy failures.
• Improved component dependency checking when doing updates via iLO Repository
• Support online updates of HDDs behind Mesa Verde & NVMe controllers
• Enhance the mechanism of handling reboot required flag in software RPM
• Support for SLES 15 OS
• Improved handling of SUM user sessions
• Provide granular install status to SUM users via detailed XML
• Prevent installation of post-production SPP on production servers.


Version:8.3.7 (28 Nov 2018)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

Added support for Microsoft Windows Server 2019 for HPE Gen10 servers


Version:8.3.6 (5 Nov 2018)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

Please note that this release of SUM is for OneView 4.10 and later addressing the following issues:

  • SUM self-update issue with multiple existing baselines resulting in component details not getting updated during baseline processing.
  • NVMe drive firmware version comparison failure.

This version of SUM is released for use in creating Custom Baseline bootable ISO files for use with OneView 4.10 and later.


Version:8.3.5 (9 Oct 2018)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

Please see the SUM Release Notes for fixes addressed in this release.

Support for Online updates of Gen10 ESXi nodes.


Version:8.3.1 (26 Jun 2018)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

  • Addressed increased DB size issue that is observed on adding multiple baselines.
  • Fixed an issue of not copying 'Saas_Required_Files.txt' file when a Custom Baseline is created using 'Save Baseline' option.
  • Addressed a OneView hang issue.
  • Addressed file tag missing issue in Custom Baseline meta xml file.

Version:8.3.0 (26 Jun 2018)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

Please refer to the SUM Release Notes for information on the issues addressed in this release.


Version:8.2.0 (5 Feb 2018)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

  • Security Enhancements:
    • Improved security key management for encrypting and decrypting node credentials.
    • Better session token management.
    • Enabled SUM with FIPS compliant Open SSL libraries which enables SUM to update systems where FIPS is enabled on OS.
  • Custom Baseline Enhancements:
    • Reduce the size of SPP ISO by selecting only the latest component version.
    • Display only the list of server model filters on Custom baseline UI that is supported by SPP.
  • Enable staging the applicable components to iLO Repository. Customer can now update systems in two steps.
    • Upload the components before the maintenance window and
    • Perform the actual deploy during the maintenance window.
  • Enable updating firmware on NVDIMM devices.
  • Support for updating software components on Gen 9 ESXi.
  • Better handling dependency between IE and ME

Version:8.1.0 (22 Dec 2017)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

Support for iLO High Security Mode


Version:8.0.0 (12 Jul 2017)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

See the HP SUM Release Notes for information about the issues resolved in this release.


Version:7.6.2 (15 Sep 2017)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

HPSUM now properly detects which one of CISS2 and CISS3 driver is installed and show up only the applicable one.

Added support for Firmware RPM debranded components

Added support for component configuration in case of debranded components


Version:7.6.0 (24 Oct 2016)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

See the HP SUM Release Notes for information about the issues resolved in this release.

Enhancements for HP SUM 7.6.0:

  • Added support for new HPE Synergy Gen9 Compute Modules, HPE ProLiant Gen9 servers, and options
  • Added support for Microsoft Windows Server 2016
  • Baseline - Improved the custom baseline smart component filtering

Version:7.5.1 (1 Apr 2016)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

See the HP SUM Release Notes for information about the issues resolved in this release.

Enhancements for HP SUM 7.5.1:

  • Added support for new HP ProLiant Gen9 servers and options
  • Added support for HP 512MB Flash Backed Write Cache for B-Series Smart Array
  • Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.1
  • Updated logo and copyright to Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Improved Trusted Module (TM) and Trusted Platform Module (TPM) support
  • Baseline - Improved the custom baseline smart component filtering

Version:7.4.0 (1 Oct 2015)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HP recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

See the HP SUM Release Notes for information about the issues resolved in this release.

Enhancements for HP SUM 7.4.0:

  • Added support for new HP ProLiant Gen9 servers and options
  • Node Deployment
    • Node Deployment user interface has been modified to have Easy and Advanced modes as well as a component dashboard. With both modes, HP SUM will still present the components that can be installed on the node. Easy mode allows you to deploy the HP SUM recommended components in a single step. Advanced mode allows you to individually select which components to deploy.
    • Node deployment can now scale to 50 nodes.
  • Baseline
    • Download baseline from hp.com now requires an entitlement token in order to download entitled components delivered with the HP Service Pack for ProLiant.
  • Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.4, VMware vSphere 6.0 U1

Version:7.3.1 (25 Sep 2015)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HP recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

See the HP SUM Release Notes for information about the issues resolved in this release.


Version:7.3.0 (3 Aug 2015)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HP recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

See the HP SUM Release Notes for information about the issues resolved in this release.

Enhancements for HP SUM 7.3.0:

  • Added support for new HP ProLiant Gen9 servers and options
  • Added deployment support for VMware firmware components that have been converted from scexe to zip format
  • Node deployment - Added abilty to allow verbose Windows™ component logging (GUI only)
  • Added support when HP SUM is running on a supported Linux operating system to accept SSH keys as passwords
  • Custom Baseline - Added ability to specify an explicit version of HP SUM to be included in the baseline

Version:7.2.0 (30 Mar 2015)

Upgrade Requirement:
Optional - Users should update to this version if their system is affected by one of the documented fixes or if there is a desire to utilize any of the enhanced functionality provided by this version.

See the HP SUM Release Notes for information about the issues resolved in this release.

Enhancements for HP SUM 7.2.0:

  • Baseline
    • New interface for component configuration including the ability to import and export the component configuration data (Available in GUI, CLI, and interactive CLI modes)
    • Added modifications to Custom Baseline to generate baselines which can be used by HP Version Control Repository Manager (VCRM)
  • Deployment
    • Modified the node deployment-related screens to remove the Analysis button
  • Node Groups
    • Removed the default Node Group
  • Reports
    • Specify the location where reports are stored (Available in GUI, CLI, and interactive CLI modes)
  • New Hardware and Operating System Support
    • Support for new HP ProLiant Gen9 servers and options
    • Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, VMware vSphere 5.1 U3, and VMware vSphere 2015

Version:7.1.0 (9 Sep 2014)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HP recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

See the HP SUM Release Notes for information about the issues resolved in this release.

Enhancements for HP SUM 7.1.0:

  • Scalable Updates powered by iLO Federation
    • Added the ability to automatically discover the iLO Federation Groups on the management network using multicast technology as well as adding them manually
    • Added the ability to update online the iLO and ROM firmware on HP ProLiant servers in the iLO Federation Group via the iLO
    • Added the ability to update all applicable firmware on HP ProLiant servers in the iLO Federation Group via the iLO using offline firmware deployment
  • Deployment of VMware VIBs and Linux firmware RPMs
  • Deployment
    • Enhanced deployment experience by viewing deployment logs during the deployment process (AKA Live logs)
    • Enhanced hard disk drive firmware deployment for selective HDD update (limited to firmware packages that supports this)
    • Added warning when deploying to nodes with HP Service Guard for HP-UX or Linux
    • HP Integrity servers
      • Added warning for HP-UX low disk space availability
      • Added the ability to automatically install the PCIINFO Depot on older installations
  • Guided Update
    • Added ability to specify a baseline for deploying packages to the localhost
  • Baseline
    • Custom Baseline
      • Added dynamic filters for package selection based on the packages in the baseline
      • Added filter by server model
      • Added filter to create an HP CloudSystem Matrix custom baseline
    • Enhanced Add Baseline
      • Added ability to download a baseline from an HTTP server
      • Added the ability to abort downloading a baseline from hp.com or an HTTP server
    • Added localization support for Linux package configuration
    • Enhanced Delete Baseline to report which nodes are referencing the baseline to be deleted
    • Added Validate Baseline which verifies that all the files are present in the baseline
  • Interactive Command Line Interface (CLI)
    • Added the ability to download a baseline from hp.com or an HTTP server
  • New Hardware and Operating System Support
    • Support for new HP ProLiant Gen9 servers and options
    • Support for deploying firmware from Moonshot Component Pack to Moonshot systems
    • Support for Internet Explorer 11

Version:6.4.1.0 (27 Jun 2014)

Upgrade Requirement:
Critical - HP requires users update to this version immediately.
Note: HP SUM 6.4.1 has been patched to address SSL/TLS MITM Vulnerability CVE-2014-0224 http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140605.txt.

The following are important fixes included in HP SUM 6.4.1:

  • Patched to address SSL/TLS MITM Vulnerability CVE-2014-0224 http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140605.txt
  • Fixed dependency processing for Linux RPMs including proper handling of the hp-nx_nic-tools dependency for the HP QLogic nx-nic drivers
  • Legacy CLI mode
    • Fixed error handling with Virtual Connect firmware deployment
    • Fixed the situation when HP SUM would lose the location of the components which caused no updates to occur
See the HP SUM Release Notes for information about the issues resolved in this release.

Version:6.3.1.0 (17 Apr 2014)

Upgrade Requirement:
Critical - HP requires users update to this version immediately.
Note: HP SUM versions 6.3.0, 6.2.0, and 6.0.1 have been replaced with HP SUM version 6.3.1 because a potential security vulnerability CVE-2014-0160 has been found. HP SUM versions 6.3.0, 6.2.0, and 6.0.1 include an affected OpenSSL version with the vulnerability known as 'Heartbleed' that could be exploited remotely resulting in disclosure of information. For more information on this vulnerability, see the Customer Advisory.

The following are important fixes included in HP SUM 6.3.1:

  • Addressed potential security vulnerability CVE-2014-0160 (also known as “Heartbleed”)
  • Improved Report Content
  • Custom Baselines are created successfully on Linux systems
  • Improved user experience when deploying components using HP SUM via iLO Virtual Media
  • Offline mode hard disk drives firmware updates are being updated immediately
  • HP SUM discovers and updates hard disk drives connected behind any HP H22x Host Bus Adapter on HP ProLiant SL230s Gen8
  • HP SUM will now update the firmware on hard disk drives that are at different firmware versions and share a common firmware component
See the HP SUM Release Notes for information about the issues resolved in this release.

The following are enhancements for HP SUM 6.3.1:

  • Text-based console and scripting
    • To get more information, issue
      hpsum <console_command> [/help | /h | /?]

      Supported console commands:

      abort
      activate
      add
      delete
      deploy
      findavailablenodes
      generatereports
      getattributes
      getbaselines
      getcomponentlogs
      getcurrentlyinstalledversions
      getenginestatus
      getlogs
      getneededupdates
      getnodes
      inventory
      login
      setattributes
      shutdownengine

  • New Node types: iLO Federation – discovers the servers in an iLO Federation Trust group – Technology preview
  • Node groups
  • Sudo/SU credential support for HP-UX

Type:Application - System Management
Version:7.6.0(24 Oct 2016)
Operating System(s):
Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Foundation Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 W32
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Essentials
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
Microsoft Windows Server 2016

Description

HP Smart Update Manager is a product which updates firmware and software on HPE Synergy Compute Modules, HPE ProLiant servers, and firmware on HPE Integrity and HPE ProLiant Moonshot servers. HP SUM has a browser-based GUI; as well as a scriptable interface using legacy command line interface, inputfile, and interactive command line interface modes. For more information, please see the Enterprise Information Library, http://www.hpe.com/info/sum-docs.

Enhancements

Enhancements for HP SUM 7.6.0:

  • Added support for new HPE Synergy Gen9 Compute Modules, HPE ProLiant Gen9 servers, and options
  • Added support for Microsoft Windows Server 2016
  • Baseline - Improved the custom baseline smart component filtering

Installation Instructions

Prerequisites:

For prerequisite information, please see the HP SUM Release Notes.

To ensure the integrity of your download, HPE recommends verifying your results with the following SHA-256 Checksum values:

5fb687d8e7309e4ca101cdd758a60b7c7b987606ac55b50b553959a21b6fee04contents.txt
0c523fad6b9e02176e5b37a37126ec2e637204f8ae2b8569da7bb4aa60b4a202hpsum760.zip

Reboot Requirement:
Reboot may be required after installation for updates to take effect and hardware stability to be maintained.

Release Notes

End User License Agreements:
HPE Software License Agreement v1
BSD License
gSOAP Software End User License Agreement
Libcurl End User License Agreement
The MIT License Agreement
OpenSSL License Agreement
zlib End User License Agreement
Hewlett-Packard End User License Agreement

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

Important:

Note: To migrate node information from HP SUM 6.x to HP SUM 7.6.0, please run hpsum_migration.bat (Windows) or hpsum_migration.sh (Linux) found in the same directory as HP SUM. See the HP SUM Release Notes for more information.
Note: To migrate node information from HP SUM 5.x to HP SUM 7.6.0, please run port-targets.bat (Windows) or port-targets.sh (Linux) found in the same directory as HP SUM. See the HP SUM Release Notes for more information.
For more information on HP SUM, please see the Enterprise Information Library.

Fixes

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

See the HP SUM Release Notes for information about the issues resolved in this release.

Important

Note: To migrate node information from HP SUM 6.x to HP SUM 7.6.0, please run hpsum_migration.bat (Windows) or hpsum_migration.sh (Linux) found in the same directory as HP SUM. See the HP SUM Release Notes for more information.
Note: To migrate node information from HP SUM 5.x to HP SUM 7.6.0, please run port-targets.bat (Windows) or port-targets.sh (Linux) found in the same directory as HP SUM. See the HP SUM Release Notes for more information.
For more information on HP SUM, please see the Enterprise Information Library.

Revision History

Version:8.4.5 (9 Sep 2019)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

Please see the SUM Release Notes for fixes addressed in this release.


Version:8.4.0 (2 Apr 2019)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

Please see the SUM Release Notes for fixes addressed in this release.

• Support for scheduling via iLO Repository.
• Support for rollback and update of recovery sets.
• Support for installing the necessary pre-requisites prior to inventory.
• Handling dependencies for Mellanox components.
• Provide detailed errors upon inventory and deploy failures.
• Improved component dependency checking when doing updates via iLO Repository
• Support online updates of HDDs behind Mesa Verde & NVMe controllers
• Enhance the mechanism of handling reboot required flag in software RPM
• Support for SLES 15 OS
• Improved handling of SUM user sessions
• Provide granular install status to SUM users via detailed XML
• Prevent installation of post-production SPP on production servers.


Version:8.3.7 (28 Nov 2018)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

Added support for Microsoft Windows Server 2019 for HPE Gen10 servers


Version:8.3.6 (5 Nov 2018)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

Please note that this release of SUM is for OneView 4.10 and later addressing the following issues:

  • SUM self-update issue with multiple existing baselines resulting in component details not getting updated during baseline processing.
  • NVMe drive firmware version comparison failure.

This version of SUM is released for use in creating Custom Baseline bootable ISO files for use with OneView 4.10 and later.


Version:8.3.5 (9 Oct 2018)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

Please see the SUM Release Notes for fixes addressed in this release.

Support for Online updates of Gen10 ESXi nodes.


Version:8.3.1 (26 Jun 2018)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

  • Addressed increased DB size issue that is observed on adding multiple baselines.
  • Fixed an issue of not copying 'Saas_Required_Files.txt' file when a Custom Baseline is created using 'Save Baseline' option.
  • Addressed a OneView hang issue.
  • Addressed file tag missing issue in Custom Baseline meta xml file.

Version:8.3.0 (26 Jun 2018)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

Please refer to the SUM Release Notes for information on the issues addressed in this release.


Version:8.2.0 (5 Feb 2018)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

  • Security Enhancements:
    • Improved security key management for encrypting and decrypting node credentials.
    • Better session token management.
    • Enabled SUM with FIPS compliant Open SSL libraries which enables SUM to update systems where FIPS is enabled on OS.
  • Custom Baseline Enhancements:
    • Reduce the size of SPP ISO by selecting only the latest component version.
    • Display only the list of server model filters on Custom baseline UI that is supported by SPP.
  • Enable staging the applicable components to iLO Repository. Customer can now update systems in two steps.
    • Upload the components before the maintenance window and
    • Perform the actual deploy during the maintenance window.
  • Enable updating firmware on NVDIMM devices.
  • Support for updating software components on Gen 9 ESXi.
  • Better handling dependency between IE and ME

Version:8.1.0 (22 Dec 2017)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

Support for iLO High Security Mode


Version:8.0.0 (12 Jul 2017)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

See the HP SUM Release Notes for information about the issues resolved in this release.


Version:7.6.2 (15 Sep 2017)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

HPSUM now properly detects which one of CISS2 and CISS3 driver is installed and show up only the applicable one.

Added support for Firmware RPM debranded components

Added support for component configuration in case of debranded components


Version:7.6.0 (24 Oct 2016)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

See the HP SUM Release Notes for information about the issues resolved in this release.

Enhancements for HP SUM 7.6.0:

  • Added support for new HPE Synergy Gen9 Compute Modules, HPE ProLiant Gen9 servers, and options
  • Added support for Microsoft Windows Server 2016
  • Baseline - Improved the custom baseline smart component filtering

Version:7.5.1 (1 Apr 2016)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

See the HP SUM Release Notes for information about the issues resolved in this release.

Enhancements for HP SUM 7.5.1:

  • Added support for new HP ProLiant Gen9 servers and options
  • Added support for HP 512MB Flash Backed Write Cache for B-Series Smart Array
  • Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.1
  • Updated logo and copyright to Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Improved Trusted Module (TM) and Trusted Platform Module (TPM) support
  • Baseline - Improved the custom baseline smart component filtering

Version:7.4.0 (1 Oct 2015)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HP recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

See the HP SUM Release Notes for information about the issues resolved in this release.

Enhancements for HP SUM 7.4.0:

  • Added support for new HP ProLiant Gen9 servers and options
  • Node Deployment
    • Node Deployment user interface has been modified to have Easy and Advanced modes as well as a component dashboard. With both modes, HP SUM will still present the components that can be installed on the node. Easy mode allows you to deploy the HP SUM recommended components in a single step. Advanced mode allows you to individually select which components to deploy.
    • Node deployment can now scale to 50 nodes.
  • Baseline
    • Download baseline from hp.com now requires an entitlement token in order to download entitled components delivered with the HP Service Pack for ProLiant.
  • Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.4, VMware vSphere 6.0 U1

Version:7.3.1 (25 Sep 2015)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HP recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

See the HP SUM Release Notes for information about the issues resolved in this release.


Version:7.3.0 (3 Aug 2015)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HP recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

See the HP SUM Release Notes for information about the issues resolved in this release.

Enhancements for HP SUM 7.3.0:

  • Added support for new HP ProLiant Gen9 servers and options
  • Added deployment support for VMware firmware components that have been converted from scexe to zip format
  • Node deployment - Added abilty to allow verbose Windows™ component logging (GUI only)
  • Added support when HP SUM is running on a supported Linux operating system to accept SSH keys as passwords
  • Custom Baseline - Added ability to specify an explicit version of HP SUM to be included in the baseline

Version:7.2.0 (30 Mar 2015)

Upgrade Requirement:
Optional - Users should update to this version if their system is affected by one of the documented fixes or if there is a desire to utilize any of the enhanced functionality provided by this version.

See the HP SUM Release Notes for information about the issues resolved in this release.

Enhancements for HP SUM 7.2.0:

  • Baseline
    • New interface for component configuration including the ability to import and export the component configuration data (Available in GUI, CLI, and interactive CLI modes)
    • Added modifications to Custom Baseline to generate baselines which can be used by HP Version Control Repository Manager (VCRM)
  • Deployment
    • Modified the node deployment-related screens to remove the Analysis button
  • Node Groups
    • Removed the default Node Group
  • Reports
    • Specify the location where reports are stored (Available in GUI, CLI, and interactive CLI modes)
  • New Hardware and Operating System Support
    • Support for new HP ProLiant Gen9 servers and options
    • Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, VMware vSphere 5.1 U3, and VMware vSphere 2015

Version:7.1.0 (9 Sep 2014)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HP recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

See the HP SUM Release Notes for information about the issues resolved in this release.

Enhancements for HP SUM 7.1.0:

  • Scalable Updates powered by iLO Federation
    • Added the ability to automatically discover the iLO Federation Groups on the management network using multicast technology as well as adding them manually
    • Added the ability to update online the iLO and ROM firmware on HP ProLiant servers in the iLO Federation Group via the iLO
    • Added the ability to update all applicable firmware on HP ProLiant servers in the iLO Federation Group via the iLO using offline firmware deployment
  • Deployment of VMware VIBs and Linux firmware RPMs
  • Deployment
    • Enhanced deployment experience by viewing deployment logs during the deployment process (AKA Live logs)
    • Enhanced hard disk drive firmware deployment for selective HDD update (limited to firmware packages that supports this)
    • Added warning when deploying to nodes with HP Service Guard for HP-UX or Linux
    • HP Integrity servers
      • Added warning for HP-UX low disk space availability
      • Added the ability to automatically install the PCIINFO Depot on older installations
  • Guided Update
    • Added ability to specify a baseline for deploying packages to the localhost
  • Baseline
    • Custom Baseline
      • Added dynamic filters for package selection based on the packages in the baseline
      • Added filter by server model
      • Added filter to create an HP CloudSystem Matrix custom baseline
    • Enhanced Add Baseline
      • Added ability to download a baseline from an HTTP server
      • Added the ability to abort downloading a baseline from hp.com or an HTTP server
    • Added localization support for Linux package configuration
    • Enhanced Delete Baseline to report which nodes are referencing the baseline to be deleted
    • Added Validate Baseline which verifies that all the files are present in the baseline
  • Interactive Command Line Interface (CLI)
    • Added the ability to download a baseline from hp.com or an HTTP server
  • New Hardware and Operating System Support
    • Support for new HP ProLiant Gen9 servers and options
    • Support for deploying firmware from Moonshot Component Pack to Moonshot systems
    • Support for Internet Explorer 11

Version:6.4.1.0 (27 Jun 2014)

Upgrade Requirement:
Critical - HP requires users update to this version immediately.
Note: HP SUM 6.4.1 has been patched to address SSL/TLS MITM Vulnerability CVE-2014-0224 http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140605.txt.

The following are important fixes included in HP SUM 6.4.1:

  • Patched to address SSL/TLS MITM Vulnerability CVE-2014-0224 http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140605.txt
  • Fixed dependency processing for Linux RPMs including proper handling of the hp-nx_nic-tools dependency for the HP QLogic nx-nic drivers
  • Legacy CLI mode
    • Fixed error handling with Virtual Connect firmware deployment
    • Fixed the situation when HP SUM would lose the location of the components which caused no updates to occur
See the HP SUM Release Notes for information about the issues resolved in this release.

Version:6.3.1.0 (17 Apr 2014)

Upgrade Requirement:
Critical - HP requires users update to this version immediately.
Note: HP SUM versions 6.3.0, 6.2.0, and 6.0.1 have been replaced with HP SUM version 6.3.1 because a potential security vulnerability CVE-2014-0160 has been found. HP SUM versions 6.3.0, 6.2.0, and 6.0.1 include an affected OpenSSL version with the vulnerability known as 'Heartbleed' that could be exploited remotely resulting in disclosure of information. For more information on this vulnerability, see the Customer Advisory.

The following are important fixes included in HP SUM 6.3.1:

  • Addressed potential security vulnerability CVE-2014-0160 (also known as “Heartbleed”)
  • Improved Report Content
  • Custom Baselines are created successfully on Linux systems
  • Improved user experience when deploying components using HP SUM via iLO Virtual Media
  • Offline mode hard disk drives firmware updates are being updated immediately
  • HP SUM discovers and updates hard disk drives connected behind any HP H22x Host Bus Adapter on HP ProLiant SL230s Gen8
  • HP SUM will now update the firmware on hard disk drives that are at different firmware versions and share a common firmware component
See the HP SUM Release Notes for information about the issues resolved in this release.

The following are enhancements for HP SUM 6.3.1:

  • Text-based console and scripting
    • To get more information, issue
      hpsum <console_command> [/help | /h | /?]

      Supported console commands:

      abort
      activate
      add
      delete
      deploy
      findavailablenodes
      generatereports
      getattributes
      getbaselines
      getcomponentlogs
      getcurrentlyinstalledversions
      getenginestatus
      getlogs
      getneededupdates
      getnodes
      inventory
      login
      setattributes
      shutdownengine

  • New Node types: iLO Federation – discovers the servers in an iLO Federation Trust group – Technology preview
  • Node groups
  • Sudo/SU credential support for HP-UX

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HP ProLiant servers and blades are a mainstay in the data center. The market leader for some years with good reason, ProLiant technology represents a remarkably stable continuum of server hardware management tools. HP SmartStart CDs and DVDs have been used countless times since Compaq ProLiant days to accelerate and standardize server deployments by integrating the right HP drivers and utilities into the OS installation process.

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No SmartStart for HP Gen8 ProLiant, Windows Server 2012

A hardware migration to the Gen8 ProLiant platform prompted HP to end the SmartStart legacy with version 8.70b (12/2011) being the last media version. HP stated that SmartStart will not be updated beyond version 8.70. SmartStart will still be available on the web for supported ProLiant G7 and earlier servers through their supported end of life. Since Windows Server 2012 was not an operating system choice in SmartStart 8.70, it won't be possible to use SmartStart to install Windows Server 2012.

New Gen8 and later ProLiant servers use a different technique for assisted installation. There is no media kit included with ProLiant Gen8 products. Intelligent Provisioning replaces SmartStart CDs for ProLiant Gen8 servers. The software that came on SmartStart media is now embedded on a flash chip on ProLiant Gen8 servers and Gen8 server blades. The pre-loaded flash chip is bootable when a user presses the F10 key during server boot (POST). The server will then boot to the pre-loaded flash chip and show the Intelligent Provisioning software.

New way to provision HP ProLiant: Smart Update Manager (HP-SUM)

For everyone that does not have ProLiant Gen8 servers, use the Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) at http://www.hp.com/go/spp to get firmware and software updates, since only Gen8 can use Intelligent Provisioning. You will also need to use the SPP if you are installing Windows Server 2012 on any HP hardware prior to Gen8. There is also a Windows Server 2012 Supplement for Service Pack for ProLiant that includes drivers and software for all ProLiant servers.

A common scenario is that you will install Windows Server 2012 on a pre-Gen8 ProLiant manually, that is, without HP software-assisted installation. Then afterwards you will run the SPP and/or Windows Server 2012 Supplement to install the HP hardware integration features. HP published a 13-page Technical white paper in September 2012 on Windows Server 2012 implementation recommendations, which makes clear that HP supports Windows Server 2012 installation on G7 and Gen8 ProLiant hardware, and also advises which drivers to use and where they are located (SPP or Supplement). Not all ProLiant hardware previous to G7 and Gen8 may be supported by HP drivers and software on Windows Server 2012.

Hp smart update manager downloadFigure A shows the HP Smart Update Manager (HP-SUM) interface running on a freshly installed Windows Server 2012 computer, an older ProLiant G5. HP-SUM will detect the latest editions of the appropriate software and drivers and show whether they are available on the DVD, to download, or in a local repository. This older G5 ended having no driver support for the HP management module, but all other drivers and software installed and worked as expected.

Figure A

HP Smart Update Manager (SUM) locates the latest versions of Windows Server 2012 drivers. (Click to enlarge)
To run HP-SUM, download the SPP software at hp.com; the current release at this writing is 2012.08. Expand the software distribution, locate and run the E:hpswpackageshpsum.exe file (where E: represents the drive letter the virtual SPP software DVD is mounted to). If you will be installing HP Agents, it is recommended that you pre-install the SNMP Service feature on Windows Server 2012. The HP Systems Insight Homepage on the computer will require SNMP to render any data.The first thing HP-SUM will do is prompt you to connect over the Internet to ftp.hp.com for the latest updates. If you have established an on-site HP software repository, you can connect to that rather than, or in addition to, using the Internet. Figure B shows the download of components from HP.com in progress. The component download and the software install are two independent steps, and there is an ability to add other ProLiant to a list of servers to be updated. This allows you to download the software on one ProLiant and install it on multiple other ProLiants at the same time.

Figure B

HP Smart Update Manager (SUM) downloading updated drivers from HP.

Install and configure with HP Tools

You will need to push the Enter Credentials button to specify a username/password—or to use the currently logged on user—for the install work. After doing a self-discovery on the local server and a discovery of any other network servers you have added to the list, HP-SUM will display any failed dependencies needed to fix to install the updates. A 'Select bundles' option makes it easy to see all the software available and selected for installation. After installation and reboots, the handy HP tools like HP Array Configuration Utility (ACU) and Integrated Lights Out (ILO) configuration tool are ready to use. Access HP tools from the Windows Start screen shown in Figure C

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