Now that you have configured SCUP, WSUS, and imported the Dell Catalogs, you're ready to start detecting and deploying updates!

After the synchronization has completed on your site, you should see information similar to this:

Detect Updates

Notice the first two, they both start with "Dell OpenManage Inventory Agent" - As you can see, one is for Workstations (Dell Business Client Systems), and the other one is for servers. This is the Inventory Agent used to detect hardwaresoftware updates for your system. You must first deploy these updates to your target systems to allow the inventory agent to inventory the system for applicable hardware updates. These two updates can be deployed at the same time that you deploy Microsoft Security Patches. Also, just like Microsoft patches using ConfigMgr SUP, the client will automatically determine whether the installation is applicable to to it, or if it should be ignored.

For example, in the next figure, you can see that we are targeting both a Dell Update and three MS Security Patches in the same software update deployment.



After your clients have installed the Dell OpenManage Inventory Agent, applicable and installed updates will be determined during the next scheduled Software Update Scan Cycle and reported back through the ConfigMgr hierarchy.

From this point, you simply follow your traditional patch deplolyment process, including Dell Hardware updates as you desire.

IMPORTANT NOTE! - As with all catalogs imported with SCUP, the update rules are static, and you must use SCUP to synchronize the catalog from the dell.com ftp site, then publish the catalog back to WSUS, and force ConfigMgr to resync with WSUS.