Release Notes

User Notes for Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server and VMware ESX Operating Systems
• The OpenIPMI device driver used by Server Administrator will conflict with the Intel IMB
device driver. You must uninstall the IMB driver before installing Server Administrator.
• When Server Administrator is installed on a system, dependency issues related to RPMs
may occur. To resolve these issues, install the missing RPMs from
SYSMGMT/srvadmin/linux/RPMS/supportRPMS . If the RPMs are not available in this
directory, install these from the operating system media. (341495)
• On SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for srvadmin-omilcore rpm, upgrade from Server
Administrator 6.5 to Server Administrator 7.0 using the "rug" command fails. (DF524371).
This is due to a known limitation with the "rug" command which does not allow a package
to be upgraded across multiple architectures.
For more information, see:
http://www.novell.com/documentation/zlm73/lm72faq/data/bgcp03i.html#bkgdkc7
• Conflicting version requirements for libsmbios library Server Administrator is dependent
on libsmbios. On Linux OS variants, if there is a mismatch in the version requirement of
libsmbios, installing Server Administrator results in warnings. It is recommended to
uninstall libsmbios versions (and the dependent software) before installing Server
Administrator.
• The USB arbitration service of VMWare ESX 4.1 makes the USB devices invisible to the
Hypervisor. So, when DUPs or the Inventory Collector runs on the MN, the partitions
exposed as USB devices are not displayed, and it reaches the timeout after 15 to 20
minutes. This timeout occurs in the following cases:
o When you start DSM SA Shared Service on the VMware ESX 4.1 managed node, it
runs the Inventory Collector. While the USB arbitration service is running, you must
wait for 15 to 20 minutes for the Inventory collector to complete the execution
before attempting to stop this service, or uninstall Server Administrator.
o When you manually run the Inventory Collector (invcol) on the VMware ESX 4.1
managed node while the USB arbitration service is running, you must wait for 15 to
20 minutes before the operations end. The invcol output file has the following:
<InventoryError lang="en">
<SPStatus result="false" module="MaserIE -i">
<Message> Inventory Failure: Partition Failure - Attach partition has failed</Message>
</SPStatus><SPStatus result="false" module="MaserIE -i">
<Message>Invalid inventory results.</Message>
</SPStatus><SPStatus result="false">
To fix the issue, stop the USB arbitration service and run the DUPs, or Inventory
Collector. Perform the following tasks to stop the USB arbitration service:
1. Use ps aux | grep usb to find out if the USB arbitration service is running.
2. To stop the USB arbitration service during booting, use chkconfig
usbarbitrator off.
3. Reboot the server after stopping the usbarbitrator to allow the DUPs and/or
the Inventory collector to run.