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

To successfully execute HP Smart Update Manager on any local or remote target systems running a SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 operating system on x86 or x64 architectures, the following library must be available:

• compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.7.2.i386.rpm or another compatibility library that provides the /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 file

  NOTE: Beginning with the Firmware Maintenance CD v8.50, HP Smart Update Manager no longer runs on SUSE Enterprise Linux 9.

Without this library, HP Smart Update Manager does not complete discovery and return "Discovery Failed" messages.