IBM Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition 4.1 Fix 234952 Readme File

Abstract

Fix 234952 resolves Apache Struts security issues s2-020 and s2-021.

Description

Readme documentation for IBM Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition Fix 234952 including installation-related instructions.

IBM Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition 4.1 uses the Apache Struts 2 web framework. Apache Struts has two security issues: s2-020 and s2-021. Applying this fix will resolve these security issues.

Readme file for: IBM Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition

Product/Component Release: 4.1

Update Name: Fix 234952

Fix ID: pcmse-4.1-build234952

Publication date: 30 May 2014

Last modified date: 30 May 2014

Contents:

1. Download location

2. Products or components affected

3. System requirements

4. Installation and configuration

5. List of files

6. Copyright and trademark information

1. Download Location

Download Fix 234952 from the following location: http://www.ibm.com/eserver/support/fixes

2. Products or components affected

Affected components include: WEBGUI, PERF

3. System requirements

3.1 Software requirements

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.3 x86 (64-bit)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.3 POWER®

3.2 Hardware requirements

IBM Flex System™ x

        -IBM Flex System x220 Compute Node

        -IBM Flex System x240 Compute Node

        -IBM Flex System x440 Compute Node

IBM Flex System p

        -IBM Flex System p260 Compute Node

        -IBM Flex System p460 Compute Node

IBM System x M4

        -IBM System x3550 M4

        -IBM System x3650 M4

        -IBM System x3750 M4

IBM iDataPlex M4

        -IBM iDataPlex dx360 M4

4. Installation and configuration

4.1 Before installation

1. Log into the Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition management node as root.

2. Source the environment for the previous Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition installation.

# source /opt/pcm/bin/pcmenv.sh

3. Shut down the Web Portal and data collection monitoring.

# pmcadmin stop

# perfadmin stop all

4.2 Installation steps

1. Extract the fix tar archive on the management node.

# tar -xvzf pcmse_4.1_234952_fix.tar.gz

2. Install the fix from the extracted directory pcmse_4.1_234952_fix.

# ./patchinstall.sh apply

4.3 After installation

1. Start the Web Portal and data collection monitoring.

# pmcadmin start

# perfadmin start all

4.4 Uninstallation

1. Log into the Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition management server as root.

2. Source the environment for the previous Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition installation.

# source /opt/pcm/bin/pcmenv.sh

3. Shut down the Web Portal and data collection monitoring.

# pmcadmin stop

# perfadmin stop all

4. Uninstall the fix from the extracted directory pcmse_4.1_234952_fix.

# ./patchinstall.sh rollback

5. Start the Web Portal and data collection monitoring.

# pmcadmin start

# perfadmin start all

5. List of files

|--source/

|    |--gui/

|    |    `--3.0/

|    |        `--tomcat/

|    |            `--webapps/

|    |                `--platform/

|    |                    `--WEB-INF/

|    |                        `--lib/

|    |                            |--struts2-core-2.3.16.3.jar

|    |                            |--struts2-json-plugin-2.3.16.3.jar

|    |                            |--struts2-spring-plugin-2.3.16.3.jar

|    |                            |--xwork-core-2.3.16.3.jar

|    |                            |--commons-fileupload-1.3.1.jar

|    |                            |--ognl-3.0.6.jar

|    |                            |--commons-lang3-3.1.jar

|    |                            |--spring-aop-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar

|    |                            |--spring-asm-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar

|    |                            |--spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar

|    |                            |--spring-context-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar

|    |                            |--spring-context-support-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar

|    |                            |--spring-core-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar

|    |                            |--spring-expression-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar

|    |                            |--spring-jdbc-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar

|    |                            |--spring-orm-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar

|    |                            |--spring-security-acl-2.0.8.RELEASE.jar

|    |                            |--spring-security-core-2.0.8.RELEASE.jar

|    |                            |--spring-security-taglibs-2.0.8.RELEASE.jar

|    |                            |--spring-support-2.0.8.jar

|    |                            |--spring-test-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar

|    |                            |--spring-tx-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar

|    |                            |--spring-web-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar

|    |                            |--stringutils-1.0.1.jar

|    |--perf/

|        `--1.2/

|            `--lib/

|                `--commons-fileupload-1.3.1.jar

|--patchinstall.sh

|--config

    |--checkServiceScript.sh

    |--patch.conf

    |--replaceFileContext

6. Copyright and trademark information

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