========================================================================= Readme file for IBM Systems Director Server core services Version 6.2.0.2 Manager Feature Software Installable: com.ibm.director.core.manager_6.2.0.2.zip IBM Corp. November 2010 ========================================================================= CONTENTS 1.0 Overview 2.0 Prerequisites and co-requisites 3.0 Installation Information 3.1 Prior to installation 3.2 Install 3.3 Perform the necessary tasks after installation 3.4 Special instructions 4.0 Uninstalling 5.0 List of changes included 5.1 Authorized Program Analysis Reports (APARs) 5.2 Product Enhancements 5.3 Troubleshooting and known issues 6.0 Copyright and trademark information 1.0 Overview This is an update for IBM Systems Director Server core services. Core services is a component of IBM Director that is installed on a managed system to provide hardware-specific function that supports communication and administration of the managed system by IBM Director. See section 5 for a list of items patched or updated. 2.0 Prerequisites and co-requisites None. 3.0 Installation information 3.1 Prior to installation If you downloaded from ibm.com, you must import the update before you can install it using Update Manager. If you acquired the files using Update Manager, the update has already been imported. To import the update from the command line, use the following command: smcli importupd -vr To import the update from the IBM Systems Director Web interface, perform these steps: 1. In navigation area, expand Release Management and click Updates. The Update Summary page displays. 2. In the Common Tasks section, click Import updates. The Import Updates page is displayed. 3. Type the directory of the update files on the management server in the Path field. All updates in the specified directory will be copied to the update library. You cannot select specific updates from this directory. 4. Click OK. The scheduler is displayed. Choose to run the task now or schedule it to run in the future. 3.2 Install To install the update from the command-line, use the following command: smcli installupd -v [-n | -N ] -u com.ibm.director.core.manager_6.2.0.2 To install the update from the IBM Systems Director Web interface, perform these steps: 1. In navigation area, expand Release Management and click Updates. The Update Summary page displays. 2. In the Common Tasks section, click Install updates. The Install Wizard is displayed. 3. Follow the steps in the Install Wizard to install the update. 3.3 Perform the necessary tasks after install Restart the management server or managed systems on which the update has been applied. Normally, when you use Update Manager to install certain types of updates, it will first create a copy of the update's files in the termporary directory /usmi/updates/data on the target server or agent. However, with this update, and for non-Windows target systems, Update Manager will use the temporary directory /opt/ibm/director/data/updateslib/staging. After you apply the update, it is recommended that you clean up the update library information from the Director Server using the 'smcli cleanupd -amv' command. You will need to re-acquire any acquired updates after this step. Also, you can delete the /usmi/updates/data directory in order to free up the space used in the old staging directory. The /usmi/updates/data directory applies to either the local Director server or remote endpoints that are non-Windows. 3.4 Special Instructions None. 4.0 Uninstalling Update Manager does not support uninstallation of com.ibm.director.core.manager_6.2.0.2. Contact IBM Systems support if you need to uninstall this update: www.ibm.com/systems/support/ 5.0 List of changes included 5.1 Authorized Program Analysis Reports (APARs) Below is a list of APARs incorporated into IBM Systems Director versions 6.2. IBM Systems Director updates and patches are cumulative with respect to the APARs they contain. For example, 6.2.0.2 contains not only the patches listed under that section but all other APARs listed that were originally resolved in 6.2.0.1. 5.1.1 APARs incorporated into 6.2 The following APARs are incorporated into IBM Systems Director 6.2 IC60210 Corrected an install problem if the install path contains parenthesis. IC60548 Improved cfgdbcmd script messages as well as infocenter documentation that describes the requirements for running the cfgdbcmd script. IC61519 Prevented spawning multiple biosinfo_linux threads. IC61637 Infocenter - Improved descriptions of how to modify the thresholds for disk space events. IC62481 Removal of agent tcdriver packages via the IBM Systems Director Web Interface is no longer available. IC62863 InfoCenter - Documented limitations with CIM and alerting on older systems with a LSI 1030 chipset. IC63241 Infocenter - Improved documentation about the TCP Command Mode access for acceessing the AMM from IBM Systems Director. IC63683 For systems with multiple host names, autorename using %HostName% substitution was changed to only use the first name in the list as the display name. IC63836 InfoCenter - Documented the required active directory configuration for the administrative group names automatically created by IBM Systems Director. IC64302 The IBM Systems Director Server crashes due to excessive memory usage when collecting inventory on a large number of resources. IC64321 InfoCenter - Documented as a limitation that OS objects are created by the discovery process for any device that supports the ssh protocol, such as a Bladecenter chassis. IC64409 Excessive reads of PowerMgmtService.idx from impacts performance. IC65054 The function of the ExecuteLocalCommand does not work for the root user on systems where the default shell for root is replaced with rootsh. IC65117 Removing CAS or 5.x agent can lead to discovery and request access issues when that agent is rediscovered. IC65137 A null pointer exception in SNMP results in blank Thresholds and Monitors. IC65401 Remote Agent installation to a Windows server without a C: drive fails. IC65514 Infocenter - Added a table at the beginning of the Events topic collection that maps the severity name to the associated severity number. IC65583 The IBM Systems Director Server fails to start when starting up when many snmp traps are directed to it. IC65631 Improved IBM Systems Director performance by adding support for the 64 bit JRE. IC65644 Corrected a timing condition that can prevent the proper installation of Common Agent features. IC65863 Insured that there is only one threshold defined for a group IC65909 The number of active users that are identified on the Manage tab of the Welcome page was increasing with each smcli command. IC65932 Operating System objects are randomly going offline and online. IC65976 The subject line and contents of an email alert are altered after a scheduled task completes. IC66061 Infocenter - Documented the storage requirements for agent deployment. IC66071 Thresholds cannot be applied to a group. IC66076 A warning message about a network component failure did not identify the the affected component or the type of error. IC66145 InfoCenter - Updated the Hardware Management Console (HMC) prerequisites. IC66178 InfoCenter - Documented, as a limitation, that the User Access Control (UAC) must be disabled on Windows 5.x and 6.x Platform Agents to avoid discovery and request access issues. IC66194 InfoCenter - Documented how to disable the broadcast/multicast traffic from CAS agents, as well as the resulting impact systems management functionality. IC66202 Errors encountered in removeRPM were not reported when running diruninstall on AIX/Linux agents. IC66205 An uncaught null pointer exception in an SLP thread results in the following error message: ATKSRV501E An error occurred in thread SLP User Agent <9 of 10>. The IBM Systems Director Server should be restarted. IC66242 The smreset command did not completely remove information regarding discovered resources. IC66245 InfoCenter - Documented the limitations of managing systems through a NAT firewall. IC66328 Provided a default for the SLP of source port of 14252 used by CAS agents to avoid discovery problems with CAS agents when a random port was used. IC66401 Corrected out of memory exceptions that occur during request access and light query tasks due to excessive thread creation. IC66435 Removed inconsistent data from the description column in the Virtual Server and Host view of inventory. IC66556 InfoCenter - Improved documentation relating the database configuration to the smsave and smrestore functions. IC66560 InfoCenter - Documented the authority required to run the smsave and smrestore commands. IC66621 Added rpm dependency checks for Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) during installation to insure users will be able to log in to the IBM Systems Director Web Interface. IC66625 Improved the performance of compliance checks. IC66701 Removed excessive delays when collecting inventory. IC66757 During the check for updates task, compliance should only run if the update inventory has changed. IC66762 CAS agents will no longer advertise IP addresses associated with Microsoft loopback adapters. IC66860 Infocenter - Documented the recommended database performance tuning configuration when configured to use a Microsoft SQL 2005 database server. IC66891 Infocenter - Documented the recommendation to stop the IBM Systems Director Server prior to taking a remote database server offline to avoid a possible hang. IC66925 Compliance checking for ServeRAID firmware did not work if the build number contained more than 4 digits. IC66928 Editing SNMP trap extended attributes on an event filter fails with a NullPointerException. IC66979 IC65644 Corrected installation of the IBM Systems Director CAS agent when existing CAS agents are already installed. IC67161 The Windows NT event log is not received for 12 hours following the reboot of a CAS agent. IC67193 Imported updates are missing after restarting IBM Systems Director. IC67232 Running many smcli commands for an extended period of time can lead to these commands not completing. IC67310 IBM Systems Director Server cannot unlock an already registered CAS agent. IC67349 InfoCenter - Improved documention about the attributes that can be listed for resources appearing in the Inventory details table. IC67429 Updates that have been applied are still shown as being needed. IC67616 Users are unable to view attributes in the Create monitors dialog after using the All Monitors view. IC67643 After restarting a Common Agent some monitors do not show data but display 'No Data Available'. IC67727 Added information to the agent deployment task log to to check the agent install log if the task completes with errors. IC67770 Inventory collection was not returning ServeRAID hard drive firmware information. IC67889 Corrected file permissions on some common agent files. IC68004 Corrected a discovery issue specific to Platform Agents. IC68022 Event actions fail with the status: "Launch Status=Successful; Completion Status=Failed. IC68193 All the monitors for a CAS agent show 'No Data Available'. IC68508 Exclusion event filters do not always exclude the selected events in the automation filter. IC68547 Inventory collected from 6.1 Platform Agents on servers with LSI adapters is incomplete. IC68554 Reinstalling and changing the IP address of IBM Systems Director can result in communication problems with previously discovered Common Agents. 5.1.1.1 APARs incorporated into IBM Systems Director Platform Agent version 6.2. IC63550 Sensor queries timeout on Windows Server 2008 Platform Agents. IC65962 SLP discovery of Platform Agents fails. IC66699 Upgrading the Platform Agent from 6.1.1 fails. IC66905 Need descriptions for SNMP V2 MIBs that were added. IC66905 Update the IBM-SYSTEM-HEALTH-MIB.mib descriptions. IC68049 Multiple duplicate events are received from Platform Agents installed on DBCS systems. IC68550 Platform Agent eventually becomes unresponsive due to a handle leak. 5.1.2 APARs incorporated into IBM Systems Director 6.2.0.1 IC68294 UpdateXpress System Pack (UXSP) Updates do not alter Compliance Status or the Compliance Chart. IC69566 trapManagedObjectName field missing from SNMP traps. IC70005 Each CIM subscription event results in the creation of an IBM Systems Director event. IC70276 Sensitive user account information is displayed in an IBM Systems Director log file. IC70327 WPAR loses its relationship with its Operating System managed resource once the WPAR is restarted from the IBM Systems Director Web interface. IC70865 UpdateXpress System Pack (UXSP) shows updates as needing to be applied even though the updates have already been applied. 5.2 Product enhancements The following list provides information about new features and enhancements in IBM Systems Director 6.2.0.1: featureID Version New Function --------- ------------ ------------------- 5.3 Troubleshooting and Known Issues For information about troubleshooting problems you encounter with installation or other update activities, see the IBM Systems Director information center on the Web at: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/systems/topic/director.tbs_6.1/fqm0_r_tbs_solving_problems.html 6.0 Copyright and trademark information www.ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml The following terms are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both: IBM Other company, product, or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others. 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