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NOTE: HP SUM begins to inventory a baseline as soon as you finish adding the baseline. To

minimize the impact on system resources, HP SUM does not recommend adding other baselines

until the baseline inventory process finishes.

Baseline reports

1. Add a baseline. For more information, see “Adding a baseline” (page 22).

2. Add a node. For more information, see “Adding a node” (page 26).

3. Perform inventory on the node. Fore more information, see “Node inventory” (page 29).

4. From the nodes screen, click Actions→Reports.

5. Click Firmware report. For more information on generating reports, see “Node reports” (page

31).

Creating a custom baseline

Creating a custom baseline allows you to deploy specific updates, minimize the size of update

baselines or bootable and non-bootable ISOs, and standardize the updates that you deploy to

your environment.

1. Outside of HP SUM, create a new, empty directory where you want to save the custom baseline.

NOTE: Make sure that you save custom baselines in an empty directory. This prevents HP

SUM from deleting files in the directory when it creates the custom baseline.

2. From the Baseline Library screen, click Actions→Create Custom.

3. In the Description text box, enter a description for the baseline. The maximum length for the

description is 50 characters.

4. Select a date for the Version, and enter a 1 or 2-character identifier, for example, 1 or 1a.

NOTE: The Baseline Name is automatically generated by combining the description and

version.

5. In the Output Location field, click Browse to navigate to an empty directory where you want

to save the baseline. HP SUM deletes all files in a directory before it writes the custom baseline

components.

NOTE: HP SUM does not support creating a new directory when it creates the custom

baseline. Create the new directory outside of HP SUM.

6. Select Make Bootable ISO file if you want to create a bootable ISO with your baseline.

NOTE: To create a custom bootable ISO, you must have a bootable HP SPP or HP SUM ISO

available in your source baselines.

If you choose to make a bootable ISO, click Browse and choose a directory where HP SUM

can find the source for the bootable ISO. The custom baseline bootable ISO includes the

version of HP SUM included in the source ISO.

7. Select whether you want to Run in background or not.

If you select to create the baseline in the background, you can monitor the progress in the

Activity screen. For more information, see “Using the Activity screen” (page 19).

8. In the Baseline Sources section, select the baselines that contain the components you want to

include in the custom baseline.

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