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

Please refer release notes for the issues 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.

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

Added support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Servers 15 and VMware vSphere 6.7 for HPE Gen10 servers

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.

Support for Online Updates of Gen10 ESXi nodes.

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.

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.

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

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

• iLO High Security mode support

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.

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

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

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
• Reduced the size of the HP SUM RPMs
• 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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 6.3.0:

• 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

The following are enhancements for HP SUM 6.3.0:

• 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