Dell POWEREDGE R720 - Manual (Page 11)

Update Dell™ Server Hardware with Dell OpenManage Essentials
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Create (In-Band) system update task
Figure 5.
Once the update task is complete, OpenManage Essentials inventories the updated servers.
Comparison between the installed packages version and baseline catalog are automatically
completed and the servers are classified as compliant or non-compliant systems accordingly. The
System Update functionality of OpenManage Essentials ensures that an IT Administrator can
always be aware of the status of servers in the data-centre environment.
When BIOS, drivers, firmware and application packages are selected for updates on a server,
packages are applied in the following order:
1. Drivers
2. Firmware
3. ESM firmware
4. BIOS
5. Application