HP Smart Update Best Practices Planning Guide

1. Updated HP Insight Management
WBEM Providers for Windows
Server 2003/2008
2. Automated Firewall configuration
for Windows Server 2008
3. MSA20, MSA500, and MSA500
G2 support
4. Updated CIM software identity
usage to enable SEC/SCCM
support
5. New drivers for ProLiant Support
Pack (PSP) 8.11 for Windows
6. Trusted Platform Module Identifier
for Windows Server 2003
7. Storport miniport driver for the HP
ProLiant Integrated SATA Controller
Driver for Windows Server 2003
x86 Edition
8. HP NC-Series Broadcom 10GbE
Multifunction Driver for Windows
Server 2003
You need to install the 4.6.16.0
version of the HP NC-Series
Broadcom 1Gb Multifunction Driver
for Windows after updating to PSP
version 8.11 and prior to updating
to PSP version 8.15 or later. This
is required because of an
architecture change in the
Microsoft support libraries for this
driver. Failure to go through the
4.6.16.0 version of the driver prior
to updating to PSP 8.15 or later
and rebooting the server can cause
all the NICs to disappear and in
some cases a total re-imaging of
the OS before the NICs can be
seen again.
For more details on this issue, see the
following customer advisories:
Several critical fixes were made to the
7.90 base to resolve several driver
issues including the following:
1. An HP ProLiant server running
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
with HP ProLiant Smart Array
SAS/SATA Controller Driver
(HPCISSS2.SYS) Version 6.6.0 (or
earlier) and HP Insight
Management Agents might blue
screen after applying HP ProLiant
Support Pack (PSP) 7.80.
PSP version 7.91
1. See Customer Advisory, Document
ID c01102958 on the http://
h20564.www2.hp.com/portal/site/
hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay/?
docId=emr_na-c01102958.
2. The HPCISSS2.SYS driver is fixed in
(PSP) 7.90.
3. HP SUM replaced the RDU to allow
multiple servers to be updated and
introduced dependency checking to
ensure all components are installed
in the correct order.
N/ASeveral health driver changes were
made in this time frame. In addition,
PSP version 7.60
several drivers were updated with
critical fixes.
N/ASystems Management Homepage was
redesigned to user system credentials
PSP version 7.20
instead of special credentials. Failure
to install the PSP version 7.20 could
lead to loss of manageability on the
server.
34 Reports and intermediate updates