HP SUM is a technology included in many HP products for installing and updating firmware and software on HP ProLiant servers, and firmware on HP Integrity servers.

HP SUM provides a web-based GUI and a command-line scriptable interface for:

HP SUM has an integrated hardware and software discovery engine that finds the installed hardware and current versions of firmware and software in use on nodes you identify. HP SUM installs updates in the correct order and ensures that all dependencies are met before deploying an update. HP SUM prevents an installation if there are version-based dependencies that it cannot resolve.

Key features of HP SUM include: