HP Insight Control for Linux 6.1 Release Notes
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1 Overview and description.............................................................................................5
1.1 Insight Control for Linux overview..................................................................................................5
1.2 Release overview...............................................................................................................................5
1.2.1 How to obtain the ISO image....................................................................................................5
1.3 New and changed features................................................................................................................5
1.3.1 Support for new servers............................................................................................................5
1.3.2 Support for new operating systems..........................................................................................6
1.4 Discontinued releases of Insight Control for Linux..........................................................................6
1.5 Items fixed in this release..................................................................................................................6
1.6 Compatibility and installation requirements....................................................................................7
1.6.1 Required software.....................................................................................................................7
1.6.2 Operating system and version compatibility............................................................................7
1.6.3 Hardware requirements............................................................................................................7
1.7 Security bulletin and alert policy for non-HP owned software components...................................7
1.7.1 Subscribing to security bulletins...............................................................................................7
1.8 Related information...........................................................................................................................8
1.9 Software availability in native languages.........................................................................................8
2 Notes and corrective actions.........................................................................................9
2.1 Customer advisories..........................................................................................................................9
2.2 General operation..............................................................................................................................9
2.2.1 SSH delays on SLES managed systems on networks without name resolution ......................9
2.3 ProLiant DL100 G5 Series Notes.....................................................................................................10
2.3.1 Bare metal discovery fails on ProLiant DL100 G5 series servers with BMC firmware
<3.11.................................................................................................................................................10
2.3.2 Maintaining the association between the BMC and ProLiant DL100 G5 series server in SIM
(BMC firmware <3.11)......................................................................................................................11
2.4 Licensing notes................................................................................................................................11
2.4.1 Insight Control for Linux license assigned to management processor...................................11
2.4.2 Warning message: This system is already enabled.................................................................12
2.5 Discovery.........................................................................................................................................12
2.5.1 Servers with NetXen gPXE NIC require DHCP modifications...............................................12
2.5.2 Bare metal discovery complains there is no DOS partition on the disk.................................12
2.5.3 PXE bare-metal discovery might fail if system clocks differ significantly..............................12
2.6 Automatic firmware update note....................................................................................................12
2.6.1 Benign font error message during firmware update..............................................................13
2.7 Management and monitoring notes................................................................................................13
2.7.1 Metrics for HP ProLiant DL100 series servers might not be individually reported...............13
2.7.2 Configure Insight Control for Linux management services or install agents might fail .......13
2.7.3 Configure or Repair Agents failure for managed systems running Red Hat 4.8...................13
2.7.4 pdsh command fails for the CMS if the CMS host name is not fully qualified .....................14
2.7.5 Nagios nsca daemon might fail to start on the CMS.............................................................14
2.7.6 Nagios nrpe daemon might fail to start on the CMS.............................................................14
2.7.7 Nagios may generate WARNING "data is stale" messages if RRDs become corrupted.........14
2.7.8 Might see CRITICAL or WARNING Nagios alerts for the NodeInfo service........................15
2.7.9 "mcelog" Nagios alerts for the Syslog Alerts service on SLES11 SP1 managed systems........15
2.7.10 The nrg --mode analyze command fails on SLES11 SP1 with can't locate
ioctl.ph message.........................................................................................................................16
2.8 Insight Control power management notes......................................................................................16
2.9 Linux OS installation notes.............................................................................................................17
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