HP-UX WBEM DAS (Direct Attached Storage) Provider Release Notes HP-UX 11i v3 HP Part Number: 766961-001 Published: March 2014 Edition: 1
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Contents HP secure development lifecycle......................................................................4 1 DAS (Direct Attached Storage) provider release notes for March 2014 release.........................................................................................................5 Announcement.........................................................................................................................5 HP-UX WBEM DAS (Direct Attached Storage) Provider................................
HP secure development lifecycle Starting with HP-UX 11i v3 March 2013 update release, HP secure development lifecycle provides the ability to authenticate HP-UX software. Software delivered through this release has been digitally signed using HP's private key. You can now verify the authenticity of the software, before installing the products, delivered through this release. To verify the software signatures in signed depot, the following products must be installed on your system: • B.11.31.
1 DAS (Direct Attached Storage) provider release notes for March 2014 release This document discusses the most recent product information on HP-UX WBEM DAS (Direct Attached Storage) Provider, which is supported on HP-UX 11i v3 operating systems. Table 1 (page 5) lists the product version for which the document is applicable. Table 1 Documentation Support for DAS (Direct Attached Storage) Provider Operating system Version HP-UX 11i v3 B.11.31.1403.05.
• Supports Indication Provider (IP) feature This feature generates indications in WBEM format and delivers the events to the cimserver. NOTE: The indication provider feature is not supported for LUNs. • Supports HP-UX WBEM services to provide Web access to HP-UX data for management clients. • Used by HP Software Management clients, HP SIM (Systems Insight Manager), HP SMH (System Management Homepage), and others. • Supports WBEM services A.02.
Table 3 DAS (Direct Attached Storage) Provider Supported Platforms (continued) Provider Product name Supported platforms • rp7410 • rp7420 • rp8400 • rp8420 • SD16, SD32, SD64 • SD16A, SD32A, SD64A • SD16B, SD32B, SD64B HP Integrity servers • cx2600 • cx2620 • rx1600 • rx1620 • rx2600 • rx2620 • rx2660 • rx3600 • rx4640 • rx5670 • rx6600 • rx7620 • rx7640 • rx8620 • rx8640 • SD16A, SD32A, SD64A • SD16B, SD32B, SD64B • BL60p HP Server Blade • BL860c HP Server Blade • BL870c HP Server Blade • BL860c i2, BL8
Table 4 DAS (Direct Attached Storage) Provider software requirement for Itanium-based system Product Product version ProviderSvcsBase (PSB) C.13.00.03, September 2013 release or later SysMgmtPlus (SMP) A.01.00 WBEM Services A.02.09.04 or later Table 5 DAS (Direct Attached Storage) Provider software requirement for PA-RISC system Product Product version WBEM Services A.02.09.04 or later SysMgmtPlus (SMP) A.01.00 OnlineDiag B.11.31.06.05 EMS-Core A.04.00.
Events supported by DAS (Direct Attached Storage) Provider For more information about the events that are supported by this provider, see Events supported by DAS (Direct Attached Storage) Provider. Hardware monitoring supported by DAS (Direct Attached Storage) Provider, in virtualization environment Table 8 (page 9) lists the support status for the providers in HPVM 4.x and vPars/HPVM v6.x. Table 8 Support status for the providers in HPVM v4.x and vPars/HPVM v6.x HPVM v4.x Hosts vPars/HPVM v6.
Defect fixes in B.11.31.1209.09.01 version Table 11 B.11.31.1209.09.01 Defect ID QXCR1001221295 Description When the first node of the hostname is changed to a name that has more than 8 characters, DAS (Direct Attached Storage) Provider fails to report the events. This issue has been fixed in this release. The events get generated even after changing the first node of system name to more than 8 characters.
Defect fixes in B.11.31.1203.04.01 version Table 14 B.11.31.1203.04.01 Defect ID Description QXCR1001134066 The HPUXStorageNativeProvider does not generate Event #100 when a disk is inserted. Retry logic is included, to send SCSI enquiry command if there is any failure in retrieving disk attributes. Event #100 is now being generated when a disk is inserted. QXCR1001088998 All the non filled properties in CIMUtil/wbemexec query appears as boolean.
Defect fixes in B.11.31.1109 version Table 16 B.11.31.1109 Defect ID QXCR1001103479 Description In the previous release, DAS (Direct Attached Storage) Provider consumes health offline / online events instead of status_change evm notifications. Event 100 and 101 will not be generated by the provider if the disks are behind FC/SAS card. Since events are not generated, Disk instance provider does not refresh its cache. This results in displaying the disk details even though the disk is removed or not online.
Table 17 B.11.31.1106 (continued) Defect ID Description In the current release, this problem is fixed. QXCR1001124484 In the previous release, there was a memory leak at every 20 minutes time interval. In the current release, this problem is fixed. Defect fixes in B.11.31.1103.15 version Table 18 B.11.31.1103.15 Defect ID QXCR1001103562 Description In the previous release, after reinserting an internal disk , the CIMUtil does not show the disk details. This defect has been fixed in this release.
Table 18 B.11.31.1103.15 (continued) Defect ID Description Table 19 QXCR1001066416 (continued) Subsystem GroupOperationalStatus Current Severity Level Earlier Severity Level • Stopping(9) Unknown(0) and No Contact(12). • In Service(11) • Dormant(15) • Power Mode(18) • Unknown(0) • No Contact(12) Has less severity level than Has higher severity the states OK(2) and level than the states OK(2) and Completed(17). Completed(17). • OK(2) Has the highest severity level.
Table 20 B.11.31.1103 (continued) Defect ID QXCR1001051681 Description In the previous release, the VirtualSystemSerialNo and SystemSerialNo fields display incorrect value when the command evweb logviewer is run on BL870c i2 platform. In the current release, these fields display appropriate values when the command evweb logviewer is run on BL870c i2 platform.
Table 20 B.11.31.1103 (continued) Defect ID QXCR1001083536 Description In the previous release, when the command evweb eventviewer is run on BL870c i2 platform, the field Latest information on this event displays incorrect location for the event details page. In the current release, when the command evweb eventviewer is run on BL870c i2 platform, the field Latest information on this event displays the correct location as: Events and their information for the event details page.
Table 21 B.11.31.1009 (continued) Defect ID Description In this release, DAS (Direct Attached Storage) indication provider displays multiple IP addresses supported for a system. QXCR1001029288 In the previous release, on HP-UX system, enumerate instance of HPUX HP_DiskDrive class returns incorrect data when DAS (Direct Attached Storage) port controllers are not present on new Integrity servers. This defect has been fixed in this release. Defect fixes in B.11.31.1004 version Table 22 B.11.31.
Defect fixes in B.11.31.1003.01 version Table 23 B.11.31.1003.01 Defect ID QXCR1000952059 Description DAS (Direct Attached Storage) Provider reports information only for disks attached in the system. When enumerateInstance method is invoked on HP_DiskDrive class on a system that does not have any disks attached, the following error message is displayed: CIM_ERR_NOT_FOUND: Information on direct attached disks could not be retrieved. The provider will not report or monitor any disks.
Table 25 B.11.31.0909.01 (continued) Defect ID Description This defect has been fixed in this release and the file diskaldata is not created in the root directory of the system. QXCR1000894271 In the previous release, a core file is created randomly in the /var/opt/ wbem directory. Occurrence of this file does not affect normal working of the product. This defect has been fixed in this release and the core file is not created in the /var/opt/wbem directory.
/storage/events/enclosures/msamon_sas • Problem: The events are lost when diagnostic products are upgraded on a DRD cloned disk. Description: Prior to September 2012 release version of diagnostics product, the postgres 7.4.2 version was supported. However version 8.4.8 is shipped from September 2012 release. Due to the missing data compatibility between PostgreSQL version 7.4.2 (prior to September 2012) and 8.4.
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