This part of the document contains information about the use of the Software Update Manager.

In section Working with SUM Tool, we inform you about important aspects on how to start and to use the SUM, and how to use the additional tools such as SUM Observer Monitor or MailNotifier.

In section Important Actions During the Roadmap Steps we mention important actions and entries to which you to pay attention, or that you have to must carry out.

When the update procedure is finished, you still have some further options after the SUM run. You can evaluate SUM and give feedback to the update procedure, you can run SUM again either for another update, or you can repeat an update without reentering system parameter values.

Finally, you can stop the Software Update Manager completely.

If you run a conversion including a database migration, you find Additional Information for Database Migration Option, for example, about the special DMO features or the migration tools.