HP Insight Control for Linux 6.1 Release Notes

2 Notes and corrective actions
2.1 Customer advisories
A customer advisory is a concise communication clearly identifying specific issues and the
effective resolution for selected servers. If you are experiencing difficulty, there might be a
customer advisory that can help you.
You can receive proactive customized email messages that provide customer advisories as well
as drivers, software patches, product change notifications, patches, security bulletins, and more.
Sign up for HP Subscriber's Choice at the following website:
http://www.hp.com/go/myadvisory
Alternatively, you can search for a customer advisory using keywords from the following website:
http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support_task.html
For example, use the keywords:
Advisory +DL165 G6 +Linux
Modify the keyword string for the hardware and operating system in your environment.
2.2 General operation
2.2.1 SSH delays on SLES managed systems on networks without name resolution
You might encounter extended delays when trying to use SSH to access a SLES managed system
on a network that does not have DNS name resolution configured or does not have a well
populated /etc/hosts file.
Such a configuration might exist if your managed nodes are on an internal private network,
which is typical for many high performance computing applications.
Corrective action: The following actions fix this issue:
• Configure a DNS resolver on the network in question.
• On the managed system, modify the /etc/hosts file to include both the CMS and the
managed system. The entry for each must contain a fully qualified name and a short alias.
It is not necessary that the name is a real registered domain name because the network has
no name resolution.
For example, if the CMS is at IP address 192.0.2.1 and the managed node is at IP address
192.0.2.10, add two lines that look like this:
192.0.2.1 saturn.example.com saturn
192.0.2.10 terra.example.com terra
• Edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file to modify the configuration of the sshd server to
turn off name resolution, as follows:
UseDNS no
Turning off name resolution on the sshd server fixes only the SSH connection delay; it does
not fix the hostname -s delay.
Automatic fix for Insight Control for Linux installations
To eliminate this delay whenever you use Insight Control for Linux to install a Linux OS on a
server, do the following:
1. Create a master /etc/hosts file for your private network that contains all servers on your
internal network as described previously in this section.
2. Store the master /etc/hosts file in the Insight Control for Linux repository and use /opt/
repository/hosts.txt as the file name.
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