IBM Systems Update Tool for Microsoft SMS

The IBM Systems Update Tool for Microsoft SMS helps enable Microsoft SMS to manage IBM firmware and driver updates. This tool helps simplify the process of identifying needed IBM firmware and driver updates for IBM System x and BladeCenter servers.

IBM Update Tool for SMS can leverage IBM UpdateXpress Server as a source for IBM updates. UpdateXpress Server is a Web-based program for managing multiple versions of IBM device drivers and firmware updates from a central repository within your network.

IBM Update Tool for SMS simplifies management of IBM firmware and driver updates via Microsoft SMS by:

• Running under the control of SMS, providing information about IBM updates to an SMS site server.
• On the SMS site server, IBM Update Tool for SMS identifies potential updates for IBM servers that are SMS clients by creating catalog entries that are added to the SMS site database.
• On an IBM server that is an SMS client, IBM Update Tool for SMS identifies the intersection between the catalog of possible updates and the actual hardware present on the SMS client.