HP Insight Control for Linux 6.0 Release Notes

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1 Overview and description.............................................................................................7
1.1 Insight Control for Linux overview..................................................................................................7
1.2 Release overview...............................................................................................................................7
1.2.1 How to obtain the ISO image....................................................................................................7
1.3 New and changed features................................................................................................................7
1.3.1 Insight Control for Linux licensing...........................................................................................7
1.3.2 Support for new servers............................................................................................................7
1.3.3 Support for new operating systems..........................................................................................8
1.3.4 Scalability enhancements..........................................................................................................8
1.3.5 Virtual media.............................................................................................................................8
1.3.6 RAM disk security enhancements............................................................................................8
1.3.7 GUI Enhancements...................................................................................................................8
1.3.7.1 Consolidated Insight Control for Linux tools...................................................................8
1.3.7.2 New Define networks and Network Configuration Editor tools.....................................9
1.3.7.3 New Initiate Bare-Metal Discovery tool............................................................................9
1.3.7.4 New Configure Boot Method tool....................................................................................9
1.3.8 Automated custom OS installation...........................................................................................9
1.3.9 Performance Dashboard enhancements...................................................................................9
1.3.10 Support for running Insight Control for Linux in a Xen virtual guest...................................9
1.3.11 Insight Control power management.......................................................................................9
1.3.12 Insight Control virtual machine management......................................................................10
1.4 Deprecated features of Insight Control for Linux...........................................................................10
1.5 Discontinued releases of Insight Control for Linux........................................................................10
1.6 Defects fixed in this release.............................................................................................................10
1.7 Compatibility and installation requirements..................................................................................10
1.7.1 Required software...................................................................................................................10
1.7.2 Operating system and version compatibility..........................................................................10
1.7.3 Hardware requirements..........................................................................................................10
1.8 Security bulletin and alert policy for non-HP owned software components.................................11
1.8.1 Subscribing to security bulletins.............................................................................................11
1.9 Related information.........................................................................................................................11
1.10 Software availability in native languages......................................................................................11
2 Notes and corrective actions......................................................................................13
2.1 General operation............................................................................................................................13
2.1.1 SSH delays on SLES managed systems on networks without name resolution ....................13
2.2 ProLiant DL100 G5 Series Notes.....................................................................................................13
2.2.1 Bare metal discovery fails on ProLiant DL100 G5 series servers with BMC firmware
<3.11.................................................................................................................................................14
2.2.2 Maintaining the association between the BMC and ProLiant DL100 G5 series server in SIM
(BMC firmware <3.11)......................................................................................................................15
2.3 Licensing notes................................................................................................................................15
2.3.1 Insight Control for Linux license assigned to management processor...................................15
2.3.2 Warning message: This system is already enabled.................................................................15
2.4 Discovery.........................................................................................................................................15
2.4.1 Servers with NetXen gPXE NIC require DHCP modifications...............................................15
2.4.2 Bare metal discovery complains there is no DOS partition on the disk.................................16
2.4.3 PXE bare-metal discovery might fail if system clocks differ significantly..............................16
2.5 Automatic firmware update note....................................................................................................16
2.5.1 Benign font error message during firmware update..............................................................16
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