HP Insight Control for Linux 6.2 Release Notes

2 Notes and corrective actions

2.1 Customer advisories

A customer advisory is a concise communication clearly identifying specific issues and the

effective resolution for selected servers. If you are experiencing difficulty, there might be a

customer advisory that can help you.

You can receive proactive customized email messages that provide customer advisories as well

as drivers, software patches, product change notifications, patches, security bulletins, and more.

http://www.hp.com/go/myadvisory

Alternatively, you can search for a customer advisory using keywords from the following website:

http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support_task.html

For example, use the keywords:

Advisory +DL165 G6 +Linux

Modify the keyword string for the hardware and operating system in your environment.

2.2 Insight Control for Linux installation and upgrade notes

2.2.1 Upgrading from V2.10.01 or V2.11 is not supported

Upgrading directly to Version 6.2 from Insight Control for Linux Version 2.10.01 or 2.11 introduces

known issues with the HP Insight Control power management functionality. As a result, HP

does not support this upgrade path.

Corrective action: HP recommends that you stop this installation and use the instructions in the

HP Insight Control for Linux 6.2 Installation Guide to perform a full installation of Insight Control

for Linux Version 6.2.

2.2.2 SIM might fail to start on SLES11 CMS during installation

The installation of Insight Control for Linux on a CMS running SLES 11 sometimes fails with the

following SIM startup error because SIM startup delays are affecting the installation:

...

HP Systems Insight Manager Initialization Starts at: Monday, datestamp

...........Failed

Exception: Configuration failed to complete due to the following

exception:

Cannot start HP Systems Insight Manager service.

Possible cause: HP Systems Insight Manager service is not properly

installed.

Corrective action:

1. Wait for SIM to start up.

2. Determine if SIM is running with the mxnode command.

3. Rerun install.sh.

2.3 Licensing notes

This section contains notes that apply to Insight Control for Linux licensing.

2.3.1 Insight Control for Linux license assigned to management processor

Be advised that Insight Control for Linux permits you to assign an Insight Control for Linux

license to an MP, which is not recommended because it uses a license unnecessarily.

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