HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Software Update 7.1.0-01 Release Notes (TB581-96073, June 2011)

Overwriting a Host Data Collector installation
• When performing an overwrite installation or upgrade installation of Host Data Collector, an
installation message and button label might not be displayed correctly. If Host Data Collector
cannot be installed, uninstall and then reinstall it.
• When performing an overwrite installation of Host Data Collector, the system prompted you to
specify a new installation path and port number. Specify the same installation path and port
number used in the previous installation.
• During an overwrite installation of Host Data Collector on Windows, information about the
installation directory and port number was not displayed correctly.
• After an overwrite installation, all Host Data Collector properties were set to their default values.
Installing Host Data Collector
• A period (.) cannot be specified in the installation path. Although prohibited special characters
other than the semicolon (such as @) can be specified in the installation path, Host Data Collector
will not work properly. When you specify an installation path, use the following characters:
A-Z, a-z, 0-9, left parenthesis [ ( ], right parenthesis [ ) ], single-byte space, backslash
(\)
• If Host Data Collector cannot be installed on the host with a supported operating system after
installing Device Manager, install Host Data Collector manually.
Installing Host Data Collector after upgrading Device Manager
After upgrading Device Manager, download and install the latest version of Host Data Collector from
the Device Manager GUI.
Upgrading Host Data Collector
Upgrading Host Data Collector resets the port number to the default (23051).
Registering Windows mount point names with Host Data Collector
When registering hosts with Host Data Collector in a Windows environment, if the mount point name
includes a semicolon, everything after the semicolon is truncated.
Registering hosts using Host Data Collector
• If the account used to register Windows hosts was a domain account, the Windows UPN format
(user-name@domain-name) could not be used. Use the domain-name\user-name format.
• The length of the password for the account used to register hosts must not exceed 128 characters.
• If a Windows host belongs to a Windows domain, use Windows Service Management to register
the Windows host.
Host Data Collector cannot obtain host information in the following cases:
• The Device Manager agent is installed on the target host.
• The target host has multipath iSCSI volumes.
• The first 8-character string of the target host name is the same as that of the host already registered
to Device Manager.
• The target host is running HP-UX 11i v2 IPF and the partition device exists.
• In the HP-UX host, a logical volume name includes any of the following characters:
10 Important considerations