Minimum requirements

To successfully deploy HP Smart Update Manager on target systems based on a Microsoft® Windows® operating system, the following must be available:

• A local administrative system with 512 MB of memory, running a supported Windows® operating system
• Sufficient hard-drive space of at least twice the file size of the components to be deployed
• WMI enabled

  NOTE: When attempting to use the remote deployment functionality of HP Smart Update Manager on any edition of Windows Server® 2008, you must ensure that the File and Print Services feature is enabled and that the File and Print Services exception has been enabled in the Windows® firewall. Failure to do so prevents HP Smart Update Manager from deploying remote Windows® target servers.

To successfully deploy HP Smart Update Manager on target systems based on a Linux operating system, the following must be available:

• A local administrative system with 512 MB of memory, running a supported Linux operating system
• glibc 2.2.4-26 or later
• gawk 3.1.0-3 or later
• sed 3.02-10 or later
• pciutils-2.1.8-25.i386.rpm or later

To successfully update HP Smart Update Manager on remote target systems based on a Linux operating system, the following must be available:

• tcl-8.x package
• tcl-5.x package
• expect-5.x package

  IMPORTANT: The HP Smart Update Manager does not support cross-platform deployments (for example, deployments from Linux systems to Windows® systems).