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icon) are available for selection on the Select Items to be Installed screen. When using this method,
both firmware and software components are available for selection depending on the options set on
the Set Bundle Filter screen when PSPs or bundles are included in the components to be deployed.
To limit only the appearance of available firmware components, use the /romonly command-line

argument and use the /softwareonly command line argument for software components. The

components are not downloaded from the HP FTP site to a target until the Install button is actually
selected unless the component is needed to discover supported devices. If components are needed
for discovery, then you are prompted to allow this action. If components are already up-to-date, the
components do not appear.

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The Check ftp.hp.com checkbox is cleared by default. To pull updates from the web, select the
Check ftp.hp.com checkbox. To use a proxy server and enable the proxy details group box,
select the Use Proxy Server checkbox.

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Proxy Details—Enter the proxy information in the Proxy Details group box to be used to access
the HP FTP site. To auto-detect the proxy information, click Detect Proxy. If you use a proxy server
in accessing the HP FTP site, the proxy information is saved and prepopulated on the next
deployment.

NOTE:

HP Smart Update Manager does not support FTP over HTTP proxy. FTP downloaded

from HTTP proxy fails. Components from the HP FTP site is only presented for selection on the
Select Items to Install screen if their versions are newer than what is already on the system. If
a system has all of the latest versions of firmware and software, no components from HP.com
is presented on the Select Items to be Installed screen.

NOTE:

For this release of HP SUM, Linux RPMs and Virtual Connect FW components are not

available from ftp.hp.com.

Include components previously downloaded from HP.com—This option includes the components that
have been previously downloaded from the HP ftp site as available for selection on the Select Items
to be Installed screen. The default location for the previously downloaded components is
%TEMP%\hp_sum\RepositoryManager\Repxx\ directory. To use components
already downloaded from the HP website, select this checkbox.

To begin the inventory process, click Start Inventory. The Inventory Progress screen appears while the HP
SUM builds an inventory of available updates.