Release Notes 1.1

Sun xVM Ops Center 1.1 Release Notes

New Features

New features for Sun xVM Ops Center 1.1 include:

Disconnected management
- Register systems locally (not with Sun) in disconnected mode
- Connect to retrieve knowledge and content
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5.0) Linux support
- Satellite and Proxy can be deployed on RHEL 5.0
Enhanced Update and Job Management functionality
- Edit, update, copy, and rerun existing jobs
- Centralized viewing of patch inventory (display installed number of components x of x for a group of systems)
- Agent Status page with Up and Down status
- "Simulate Only" role for the Update module
ILOM2 compliance
- Removed all hard-coding needed to gather model name, kernel and class on ILOM2 Service Processor systems
Improved quality

Installing Sun xVM Ops Center 1.1

Get the 1.1 software
Follow the installation steps to install Sun xVM Ops Center version 1.1.

If You Have Sun xVM Ops Center 1.0, 1.0.1, or 1.0.2 Installed

If you do have Sun xVM Ops Center 1.0, 1.0.1, or 1.0.2 installed on your system, use the procedures described on the Special Procedure for Early Access Installations page to uninstall Sun xVM Ops Center software before you proceed with the version 1.1 installation.

Fixed Issues

The following issues are fixed:

Bug ID	Description
6664066	File Permission: not readable by others for /var/opt/SUNWscncon/webapps/scportal
6664051	Incorrect file permission for jssecacerts after the satellite fresh install
6627700	Stopping a proxy using the proxyadm stop command causes the satellite services on the same host to be restarted.
6682479	If a task within a job fails and the policy is to fail the job, the subsequent tasks still attempt to run and the job status is displayed as Running.
6658577	Proxy instances are shown as online even when they've died. The proxy java instance may die, particularly when running on a system with inadequate resources.
6657424	Modifying roles for more than one channel simultaneously causes an Internal server error message to appear in the browser user interface.
6655479	Agent configuration may fail as part of enabling channels or OS provisioning.
6654494	UI needs to display info about servers that are unaccounted for in Management Dashboard.
6635196	After deleting a C10-Chassis from gear, a subsequent discovery reports success, but the asset does not show up for registration and channel enablement.
6644883	Profiles allow the selection of a specific RPM or PKG LEAF for uninstall, which is not supported.
6654098	The results of various update reports are presented in a scrolling window which may have poor performance, including presenting browser messages indicating "Unresponsive Script"
6654709	"Find" option for the "Modify System Catalog" might be very slow and the browser may display an "Unresponsive script" message.
6659168	Jobs fail on the Solaris 10 sparc local zones
6625032	Update - Manage Jobs: Unable to stop or delete a job that is running using the job table.
6658542	Cannot save the snapshot of the current Inventory - API error
6639581	OSP(S10U2/S10U3) failed on Leo & Taurus H/W
6658001	Satellite BUI: Gear -> Remove Selected Gear doesn't remove the discovered asset after OSP
6661180	Management Channel is sometimes slow to process
6635289	The 'Management -> Hardware' channel page is slow to load
6633792	Registered Doradi(x4150) hardware not listing under 'Management - Hardware'
6643902	Custom Discovery editing of attributes creates second listing
6679298	uce proxy not being stopped by proxyadm
6662244	uce-scheduler does not do automated updating KBs from the hosted servers
6656671	If two jobs are submitted on same agent - BAR job and UpdateProv. - stopping the second one causes the first to fail
6658370	BAR from DB report does not work with Group targets
6626128	Script Warning in Edit Profile Page for Firefox 2.0.0.8
6661962	Unable to run create Job wizard when create Profile wizard is opened and closed during wizard run
6640599	FWP operation fails on X4450(Tucani) hardware
6651445	OSP feature does not work on Pegasus blade - no reset of the blade (x6420)
6626307	Post installation of agent deployment fails on SLES10
6662432	Create OS distribution from CD over writes the previous iso image when OS has multiple iso images
6640391	S10U3_x86 provision getting aborted, when using 15+ servers.
6638892	Job id does not display when provisioning a large number of servers
6640327	Job manager fails jobs based on composite task failing when should factor in target

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Known Issues

The following known issues and bugs affect the operation of the Sun xVM Ops Center 1.1 release. Bugs and issues are grouped into the following categories:

Installation
General
Gear Module - Discovery and Registration
Updates Module
Provisioning Module
Management Module

Installation

The following are known installation issues:

Bug ID	Description	Workaround
6633596	Install might hang at "10) Install Core Channel components" step	Reboot the system so that the SMF starter svc.startd is restarted. Then retry the install to continue where it left off.
6664928	When the satellite and proxy software is installed on operating environments that do not meet the requirements, the installation does not clearly state the missing packages.	A partial list of required packages is SUNWgcc, SUNWgccruntime, SUNW,apchr, SUNWapch2s, SUNWapch2d, SUNWapch2u, SUNWant, SUNWgetr, SUNWgetu, and SUNWperl-xml-parser.
6702415	On the control proxy page, the Satellite Registration does not start the proxy and close the wizard	Click the cancel button in the wizard, or logout (https://sat:9443/scportal/logout) and login again. Verify that the proxy starts. If the proxy does not start, use the following command to start the proxy from the command line: proxyadm start -w.
6689967	/var/opt/sun is temporarily 700/scndb/scndb during install, can cause install errors if install fails on Install Agents components step	If the installer fails on the Install Agent components step, the workaround is as follows: 1) Continue with uninstall. 2) before reinstalling, rm -rf /var/opt/sun 3) reinstall
6702078	After installation failure, uninstall then reinstall fails on linux	1) Continue with uninstall. 2) before reinstalling, rm -rf /var/opt/sun 3) reinstall

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General

The following are known issues:

Bug ID	Description	Workaround
6656276	proxyadm stop -w times out because all proxy processes have not exited.	Run svcs -pv svc:/application/management/common-agent-container-1:scn-proxyto see the processes associated with the proxy. If there is no java process, but a dsvclockd or an rsshcmd process is shown, then kill the process and the proxy will be completely shut down.
6658616	xVM Ops Center management operations on the satellite server and operating system cause problems.	Do not use xVM Ops Center to perform management operations on the server that runs the xVM Ops Center satellite. Do not enable update channel for the operating system hosting the xVM Ops Center satellite.
6664997	Local/embedded proxy controller does not properly start upon Satellite server boot
6662780	xVM Ops Center update and provisioning operations on the satellite server and operating system cause problems.	Do not use xVM Ops Center to provision or update the firmware or operating system on which the satellite server is installed. Do not enable provisioning or updating for that gear.
6644911	Select uninstall action does not check the required selection all the times
6692408	Login page sometimes requires you to log in again. This might occur if there is a long delay between visiting the login page and attempting to login.	Log in a second time.
6670059	n1sh will exit when user enters the escape keys in 'connect node <node_id>'	Invoke the 'n1sh connect node <node_ip>' from the command line rather than in the interactive mode.
6657375	BUI logout sometimes occurs even when user is working
6706792	Linux - if database fails to start and user logs in, will be forced to re-register	Determine DB issue, correct, stop/start Satellite. Log back in and go through Satellite reg wizard again, then you will be brought to normal dashboard page
6729083	xVM Ops Center fails to create jobs if the host or job name is too long	Host and job name entries are limited to 32 characters. To avoid this issue, use host names that are less than 24 characters in length.
6728676	Unable to run jobs after installation	Refer to 6729083. Host and job name entries are limited to 32 characters. To avoid this issue, use host names that are less than 24 characters in length.

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Gear Module - Discovery and Registration

The following are known issues in the Gear module:

Bug ID	Description	Workaround
6613181	Sometimes Wolf Blades (X6250) are not discoverable. This is due to the leftover PET settings on ELOM systems.	To remove the leftover PET settings, delete the server, or manually clean up the PET settings, before you uninstall Sun xVM Ops Center.
6702274	Discovery of invalid iprange of address should throw proper error message	Entering an IP range for discovery that is too large and includes more than the maximum number of IP addresses (16384) will result in an error indicating that the discovery job could not be submitted. The error does not indicate why the discovery job could not be submitted. The best way to avoid this is to enter smaller ranges for discovery.
6701982	A discovery criteria can be saved even when username/Paswd/IP/name field is empty. Saving a criteria without saving the password(s) leaves the empty password field in an uneditable state during the next user session.	Uncheck the specific protocol entry and then re-enter the protocol entry including the user credentials.

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Updates Module

The following are known issues in the Updates module:

Bug ID	Description	Workaround
6656896	Suspension of Group jobs does not succeed for one usecase	The Suspend group job operation can be invoked when tasks other than the last task of an intermediate job of the group is in progress. This results in a correct suspension of the group job.
6704390	Channel id is incorrect" error message appears for some hosts I select for the "Create Catalog" wind
6707477	sw_mgmt_serv Missing channels.xml causes problems with major update channel functionality	1. Check the .uce.rc file on /usr/local/uce/server/cgi-bin (on Linux) and /opt/SUNWuce/server/cgi-bin (on Solaris). See if it has 3 lines like the following (note actual values may be different - you are only looking for these parameter names): ( all ) ( invisible.log.__file.last_unauthorised_user, "E4FCAE115AC485923DF90(et cetera)" ); ( all ) ( invisible.log.__file.last_bad_password, "FFFCAE115AC485923DF90(et cetera)" ); ( all ) (invisible.log.__file.next_time_connect_to_guus_after_auth_failure, 1211938520 ); If you see these 3 parameter entries and you are sure your credentials are valid,delete these 3 lines. After a few minutes, confirm that channels.xml has been downloaded. Look for this file under /opt/SUNWuce/server/public (Solaris) or /usr/local/uce/server/public (Linux).

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Provisioning Module

The following are known issues with firmware and OS provisioning:

Bug ID	Description	Workaround
6660830	OSP on multiple systems failing on one node in multi-proxy environment	This is a v20z hardware issue
6698888	ERROR: "/" does not fit on any disk	If you are using the default profile on a Linux proxy to install Solaris and if either Linux or Windows was installed previously, this error occurs because the rootdisk associated with the default profile is not being cleared on Linux. To resolve this issue, create a new profile associated with the specific disk.
6653168	Consecutive OSP jobs along with agent installation results in the second job being listed as partially successful	Undefined behavior can cause the agent to not work or not be seen correctly. The workaround is to unconfigure the agent manually. Discover the agent, then provision the OS. To unconfigure the agent, type the following on the system: /opt/SUNWxvmoc/bin/agentadm unconfigure (Solaris) /opt/sun/xvmoc/bin/agentadm unconfigure (Linux)
6701873	Import SLES10 64bit iso images fail	Remove all files from the following directories before you begin importing images: /var/opt/sun/scn/images/os/iso/ /var/opt/sun/scn/images/os/flars/
6702686	Importing an OS image fails , stating already exists in RHEL5 as Sat/Proxy.
6702063	Create Firmware Image fails stating already exists in RHEL5 as Sat/Proxy