HP Insight Control for Linux 6.3 Release Notes
Contents
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.............................................................................6
1.7 Security bulletin and alert policy for non-HP owned software components...................................6
1.7.1 Subscribing to security bulletins......................................................................................7
1.8 Related information.............................................................................................................7
1.9 Software availability in native languages...............................................................................8
2 Issues and suggested actions.......................................................................9
2.1 Customer advisories.............................................................................................................9
2.2 Insight Control for Linux installation and upgrade notes............................................................9
2.2.1 Upgrading from V2.10.01 is not supported......................................................................9
2.2.2 SIM might fail to start on SLES11 CMS during installation..................................................9
2.2.3 HPSMDB service might fail to start when Insight Control for Linux is upgraded.....................9
2.3 Licensing notes.................................................................................................................10
2.3.1 Insight Control for Linux license assigned to management processor..................................10
2.3.2 Warning message: This system is already enabled.........................................................10
2.4 Network configuration notes...............................................................................................10
2.4.1 Internet Explorer generates error when Define Networks task is launched from the Network
Configuration Editor...........................................................................................................10
2.5 Discovery.........................................................................................................................11
2.5.1 Servers with NetXen gPXE NIC require DHCP modifications.............................................11
2.5.2 Bare metal discovery might complain there is no DOS partition on the disk.......................11
2.6 Automatic firmware update note.........................................................................................11
2.6.1 Benign font error message during firmware update.........................................................11
2.7 Management and monitoring notes.....................................................................................12
2.7.1 Metrics for HP ProLiant DL100 series servers might not be individually reported...................12
2.7.2 Configure or Repair Agents might fail for managed systems running Red Hat 4.8...............12
2.7.3 pdsh command might fail for the CMS if the CMS host name is not fully qualified .............12
2.7.4 Might see CRITICAL or WARNING Nagios alerts for the NodeInfo service........................12
2.7.5 "mcelog" Nagios alerts for the Syslog Alerts service on SLES11 SP1 managed systems.......13
2.7.6 The nrg --mode analyze command fails on SLES11 SP1 with can't locate ioctl.ph
message...........................................................................................................................13
2.8 Insight Control power management notes.............................................................................14
2.9 Linux OS installation notes.................................................................................................14
2.9.1 Kernel parameters required for installing 32-bit x86 SLES operating systems on various
servers..............................................................................................................................14
2.10 Linux image capture and deployment notes.........................................................................15
2.10.1 Capturing and deploying Linux images........................................................................15
2.10.1.1 HP ProLiant DL180 G5 server cannot load captured SLES 10 SP2 image ..................15
2.10.1.2 Deployment of SLES 10 SP3 fails when logical volumes span disks on multiple
controllers....................................................................................................................15
2.10.1.3 Log file for deployment issues..............................................................................15
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