HP Insight Control for Linux 6.2 Release Notes

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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...................................7
1.7.1 Subscribing to security bulletins...............................................................................................7
1.8 Related information...........................................................................................................................7
1.9 Software availability in native languages.........................................................................................8
2 Notes and corrective 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 or V2.11 is not supported................................................................9
2.2.2 SIM might fail to start on SLES11 CMS during installation.....................................................9
2.3 Licensing notes..................................................................................................................................9
2.3.1 Insight Control for Linux license assigned to management processor.....................................9
2.3.2 Warning message: This system is already enabled.................................................................10
2.4 Discovery.........................................................................................................................................10
2.4.1 Servers with NetXen gPXE NIC require DHCP modifications...............................................10
2.4.2 Bare metal discovery complains there is no DOS partition on the disk.................................10
2.5 Automatic firmware update note....................................................................................................10
2.5.1 Benign font error message during firmware update..............................................................10
2.6 Management and monitoring notes................................................................................................10
2.6.1 Metrics for HP ProLiant DL100 series servers might not be individually reported...............10
2.6.2 Configure or Repair Agents failure for managed systems running Red Hat 4.8...................11
2.6.3 pdsh command fails for the CMS if the CMS host name is not fully qualified .....................11
2.6.4 Nagios nsca daemon might fail to start on the CMS.............................................................11
2.6.5 Nagios nrpe daemon might fail to start on the CMS.............................................................11
2.6.6 Might see CRITICAL or WARNING Nagios alerts for the NodeInfo service........................11
2.6.7 "mcelog" Nagios alerts for the Syslog Alerts service on SLES11 SP1 managed systems........12
2.6.8 The nrg --mode analyze command fails on SLES11 SP1 with can't locate
ioctl.ph message.........................................................................................................................12
2.7 Insight Control power management notes......................................................................................13
2.8 Linux OS installation notes.............................................................................................................13
2.8.1 Kernel parameters required for installing x86 SLES 10 SP3 and SLES 11 on BL465c G7 and
BL685c G7 servers............................................................................................................................14
2.9 Linux image capture and deployment notes..................................................................................14
2.9.1 Capturing and deploying Linux images.................................................................................14
2.9.1.1 SLES 11 image deployment fails with GRUB error.........................................................14
2.9.1.2 HP ProLiant DL180 G5 server cannot load captured SLES 10 SP2 image .....................14
2.9.1.3 Deployment of SLES 10 SP3 fails when logical volumes span disks on multiple
controllers...................................................................................................................................14
2.9.1.4 Log file for deployment issues........................................................................................15
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