Lenovo ThinkPad W540 (English) System Update 3.14 Deployment Guide - Page 8

System Update, System Update and Update Retriever

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System Update The following illustration shows the communication path of update packages from the Lenovo Help Center to a client system when using only System Update: Lenovo Help Center Internet System Update Client system Figure 1. Update process using System Update only System Update and Update Retriever For multiple systems, you can use Update Retriever on an administrative system to download packages from the Lenovo Help Center to your network. System Update can be configured to obtain updates from a repository folder. Your repository folder provides the storage for update packages. This allows greater control of the updates that are available over your network. The following illustration provides the communication path of update packages from the Lenovo Help Center to your administrative system using Update Retriever: Figure 2. Using Update Retriever to control the update process The following illustration provides the communication path of update packages from an administrator system with Update Retriever to client systems with System Update: 2 System Update Solution Deployment Guide

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System Update
The following illustration shows the communication path of update packages from
the Lenovo Help Center to a client system when using only System Update:
System Update and Update Retriever
For multiple systems, you can use Update Retriever on an administrative system to
download packages from the Lenovo Help Center to your network. System Update
can be configured to obtain updates from a repository folder. Your repository
folder provides the storage for update packages. This allows greater control of the
updates that are available over your network. The following illustration provides
the communication path of update packages from the Lenovo Help Center to your
administrative system using Update Retriever:
The following illustration provides the communication path of update packages
from an administrator system with Update Retriever to client systems with System
Update:
Internet
Client system
Lenovo
Help Center
System
Update
Figure 1. Update process using System Update only
Figure 2. Using Update Retriever to control the update process
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System Update Solution Deployment Guide