HP-UX WBEM Direct Attached Storage (DAS) Provider Release Notes HP-UX 11i v3 HP Part Number: 5900-3280 Published: September 2013 Edition: 2
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Contents HP secure development lifecycle......................................................................4 1 Direct Attached Storage (DAS) provider release notes for September 2013 release.........................................................................................................5 Announcement.........................................................................................................................5 HP-UX WBEM DAS 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 software signatures in signed depot, version B.11.31.1303 or later of Software Distributor (SD) and version A.01.01.
1 Direct Attached Storage (DAS) provider release notes for September 2013 release This document discusses the most recent product information on HP-UX WBEM DAS 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 provider Operating system Version HP-UX 11i v3 B.11.31.1309.07.
• 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 Systems Insight Manager (SIM), HP System Management HomePage (SMH), and others. • Supports WBEM services A.02.
Table 2 DAS provider OS requirement Provider DAS Provider Product name WBEMP-Storage Supported OS HP-UX 11i v3 Mode of delivery ISU Table 3 DAS provider Supported Platforms Provider DAS Provider Product name WBEMP-Storage Supported platforms HP 9000 servers • rp3410 • rp3440 • rp4410 • rp4440 • rp7405 • 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 •
Table 3 DAS provider Supported Platforms (continued) Provider Product name Supported platforms NOTE: Wrapper indication provider is supported on HP 9000 servers. Native indication provider is supported on Integrity servers. Software requirements DAS provider requires certain software products to be installed before on the managed system. Table 4 (page 8) lists the software product requirement for the provider.
Table 7 Mapping provider module with provider name, type, events Provider Type Supported Provider Name on IA/PA Wrapper Provider IA/PA Bundle Name DASProvider Provider Name in Events HPUXStorageIndicationProviderModule Native Provider & IA RecordLog Provider (RLP) & Consolidated Status provider (CSP) & Instance Provider HPUXStorageNativeProviderModule Consolidated Status Provider(CSP) & Instance Provider HPUXStorageProviderModule PA DiskIndicationProvider HPUXESCSIIndicationProvider HPUXESDISKIn
Table 8 Defects fixed in HP-UX 11i v3 OS (continued) Defect ID QXCR1000958375 Description In the previous release, the status of LUNs in the SMH page are displayed as degraded even when the status of LUNs are not degraded. In the current release, this defect is fixed and the LUN status is displayed appropriately in the SMH page. Defect fix in version B.11.31.1003.01 QXCR1000952059 DAS provider reports information only for disks attached in the system.
Table 8 Defects fixed in HP-UX 11i v3 OS (continued) Defect ID Description QXCR1001008709 In the previous release, the HPUXStorageNativeProviderModule dumps core when directly attached disk, which is not supported by HP disk firmware, is removed from HP Superdome 2 platform. This defect is fixed in the current release.
Table 8 Defects fixed in HP-UX 11i v3 OS (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 8 Defects fixed in HP-UX 11i v3 OS (continued) Defect ID Description In the current release, when the command evweb eventviewer is run on BL870c i2 platform, the field Latest information on this event displays correct location http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp? lang=en&cc=us&taskId=110&prodSeriesId=4183083&prodTypeId=18964& prodSeriesId=4183083&objectID=c02293513 for the event details page.
Table 8 Defects fixed in HP-UX 11i v3 OS (continued) Defect ID Description Table 9 (continued) Subsystem GroupOperationalStatus QXCR1001097747 • Stopping(9) • In Service(11) • Dormant(15) • Power Mode(18) • Unknown(0) • No Contact(12) • OK(2) • Completed(17) Current Severity Level Earlier Severity Level Unknown(0) and No Contact(12). Has less severity level than the Has higher severity states OK(2) and level than the states OK(2) and Completed(17). Completed(17).
Table 8 Defects fixed in HP-UX 11i v3 OS (continued) Defect ID Description QXCR1001093716 In the previous release, the HPUXStorageIndicationProviderModule registers to disk_em, msamom, msamom_sas, gazemon monitors repeatedly every 5 minutes. This causes a poll from these monitors which has to be avoided. This defect is fixed in the current release. Store the PID of the monitors in the provider and register only when the PID changes that is when monitor has restarted.
Table 8 Defects fixed in HP-UX 11i v3 OS (continued) QXCR1001145740 The upgrade of DAS provider does not retain user configurable values of config files. Changes are made to ensure that the user configurable attributes value of config files get retained after upgradation. QXCR1001133148 The install logs present under the /var/opt/ directory displays unwanted messages during cold install for RAIDSA, SAS, DAS, and FC providers This defect is fixed in the current release. The createtable.
Table 8 Defects fixed in HP-UX 11i v3 OS (continued) QXCR1001228957 The following error message is logged in DASProvider log: SFM: ERROR: invalid input syntax for type timestamp with time zone: "" This issue is fixed in this release. QXCR1001235345 The DASProvider is generating core during provider initialization/event generation. This issue is fixed in this release. Known problems, workaround, and limitations Following is the known problem tabulated from the current release.
Due to the missing data compatibility between PostgreSQL version 7.4.2 (prior to September 2012) and 8.4.8 (September 2012 release or later) when diagnostics products are upgraded from prior to September 2012 release to September 2012 web release and later, the postgres data need to be migrated to 8.4.8 format. Data migration involves backup in 7.4.2 version using the pg_dumpall and restore in 8.4.8 version using the psql operations. Both of these operations requires a running postgres service.
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