HP Systems Insight Manager 7.1 Release Notes

Insight Remote Support
The minimum supported HP iLO 4 firmware version to register Insight Remote Support through the
HP iLO 4 is 1.05 or above. You can download the latest firmware from the HP website
www.hp.com/support/ilo4/ or when installing the HP Service Pack for ProLiant 2012.06.0 (B) or
higher.
When using the HP iLO 4 1.05 firmware version, you need to manually activate remote support.
Instructions can be found at www.hp.com/go/proliantgen8/docs in the HP Insight Remote Support
and Insight Online Setup Guide for ProLiant Gen8 Servers. Future firmware releases will
automatically enable this functionality by default.
Some of the features in HP SIM that are affected, include:
• The ability to effect configuration changes in the HP iLO 4 pertaining to Insight Remote Support.
• Configure or Repair Agents pertaining to the configuration of Insight Remote Support 7.0.5
HP iLO 4 settings
• The CLI cannot configure Insight Remote Support
• The Insight managed system setup wizard cannot configure Insight Remote Support.
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HP SIM recommends that you install Insight Remote Support 7.0.5 to enable enhanced delivery of
your HP Warranty, HP Care Pack Service, or HP contractual support agreement.
Service Pack for ProLiant
When the HP Service Pack for ProLiant (HP SPP) is uploaded using the Upload Support Pack option,
Version 7.1.0 (or earlier) displays the HP SPP as invalid. This occurs because VCRM Upload Control
fails to process the component with a size of more than 100 MB.
SNMP pass-thru
SNMP Pass-thru discovery of a ProLiant Gen 8 server through HP iLO 4 does not work as in the
previous Generations. An alternate way to achieve this functionality is to install HP ProLiant Agentless
Management Service on the server and select Agentless Management in HP iLO 4 Management
page. This discovers and associates the complete server details with the server node.
Software/Firmware
The following features are not supported from an HP-UX CMS:
• Offline firmware upgrade
• Installs to Onboard Administrator, HP iLO, or version control
• Installs to servers that are not running the HP Version Control Agent
HP SIM can be set up on a Linux or (better yet) Windows system to gain this functionality.
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Install Software and Firmware deployment to an iLO will not work if Trust Platform Mode is disabled
on the server.
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If you select Deploy→Software/Firmware Baselines→Track Software and Firmware Versions to
install a Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) using the offline mode, and if an identification task is run
while the iLO is running in embedded SmartStart mode, then an extra iLO might be incorrectly and
partially discovered and the deployment task results might show success to the real iLO and failure
to the incorrect iLO. In this case the deployment was successful. Running identification again while
the iLO is not in embedded SmartStart mode will remove the incorrect iLO.
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8 Important notes