HP WBEM Services Version A.02.09.12 Release Notes (5900-2121, March 2012)

NOTE: If you do not manually add the group and the user before installing HP WBEM Services,

the installation scripts add a group and user using locally available IDs, returned by useradd(1M)

and groupadd(1M), which may already be in use on the network.

For systems using NIS the problem is encountered when HP WBEM Services is installed as part of

a custom bundle that requires a system reboot or if NIS is stopped for any other reason whilst the

HP WBEM Services installation is performed. In the former case, this is because the HP WBEM

Services configure phase (when the user and group are created) is run before NIS is up and running

after a system reboot. To avoid this problem on systems that have NIS configured, install the HP

WBEM Services upgrade on its own or as part of a custom bundle that does not contain updates

that require a system reboot.

This problem does not affect new installations where the cimsrvr user and group is present before

NIS, LDAP or other network services are configured; or minor upgrades of HP WBEM Services

where the cimsrvr user and group is present from an earlier HP WBEM Services A.02.07 or

later installation.

Failure to configure WBEM-CORE fileset (Updating from A.02.00.08 and earlier to A.02.05 and

later)

What is the problem?

Use of the usePAMAuthentication configuration option will result in failure to configure the

WBEM-CORE fileset during an update of the WBEM Services. The usePAMAuthentication

configuration option has been obsoleted and is no longer supported.

What is the workaround or available patch?

You must do the following:

1. Before updating the WBEM Services, check if the usePAMAuthentication configuration

option is present in the following WBEM configuration files:

/var/opt/wbem/cimserver_current.conf

/var/opt/wbem/cimserver_planned.conf

2. If the usePAMAuthentication configuration option is present, then run the following command

before updating the WBEM Services product.

# cimconfig -u usePAMAuthentication -p