Re: Latest dsu version

Dell - Internal Use - Confidential

Dell - Internal Use - Confidential
Your observations are correct and thanks for the feedback.

The Inventory Collector (IC) is usually of size < 100MB. Hence, based on customer input, DSU retains the IC and refresh only when a new IC is available. The latest system updates are obtained from Catalog which is of size less than 500KB  (rpm). So to make sure we obtain latest Catalog every time, we fetch it during every DSU instance.

IC is needed to perform system inventory. The 'inventory_firmware' command (deprecated) downloaded all the required IC components when user issues 'yum install dell_ft_install'. But it is a good suggestion to use the available IC if network is not available or should be used. We will include this in DSU development plan to have it available in future releases.

Thanks,
Soorej

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists On Behalf Of Giulio
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 11:41 PM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] Latest dsu version

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote:

> dsu no longer removes the dsucatalog and invcol packages when it finishes.
> But it does remove dsucatalog and reinstalls it if you run dsu a
> second time even though the version is identical. Still not very network friendly.

It would also be useful if dsu could optionally work like the old "inventory_firmware", that is just give the status of all the firmware levels it knows about w/o using the network at all, w/o installing/updating/uninstalling anything, w/o touching the system in any way.

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