IBM Platform Symphony 7.1 Interim Fix 428035 Readme File

IBM Platform Symphony 7.1 Interim Fix 428035 Readme File

Abstract

Idle slots in SSM remain despite sessions being closed.

Description

Because of a race condition in SIM, even after all sessions in SSM are closed, idle slots remain in SSM. These slots cannot be used to run workload.

This interim fix applies only to the following platform:

Windows 64-bit

Readme file for: IBM® Platform Symphony

Product/Component Release: 7.1 Fix Pack 1

Update Name: Interim Fix 428035

Fix ID: sym-7.1-build428035

Publication date: 1 November 2016

Last modified date: 1 November 2016

Contents:

1. List of fixes

2. Download location

3. Products or components affected

4. Installation and configuration

5. List of files

6. Copyright and trademark information

1. List of fixes

APAR: P101962

2. Download location

Download Fix 428035 from the following location: http://www.ibm.com/eserver/support/fixes/

3. Products or components affected

Product/Component Name, Platform:

Platform Symphony/sim, Windows 64-bit

4. Installation and configuration

4.1 Before installation

Stop the cluster. Log on to the master host as the cluster administrator and run:

C:\>soamcontrol app disable all

C:\>egosh service stop all

C:\>egosh ego shutdown all

4.2 Installation steps

Copy the soam7.1_win-x64_build428035.msp package to your compute hosts and then do one of the following steps:

Interactive installation

Double-click the Platform Symphony MSP package to run the Platform Symphony installer.

Silent installation

Run the Platform Symphony installer from the command line using the following command:

C:\>msiexec /update <Sym_package_name_path> /l*v <Sym_install_log> /norestart /quiet REINSTALLMODE=omus

Where:

- Sym_package_name_path is the fully qualified file name of the MSP package in this release.

- Sym_install_log is the log file for the Platform Symphony upgrade.

For example, to update a Windows 64-bit compute host, run the following command:

C:\>msiexec /update C:\soam7.1_win-x64_build428035.msp /l*v updateSym.log /norestart /quiet REINSTALLMODE=omus

4.3 After installation

1. Verify the installation.

The following is an example of verifying the installation by running sim -V:

>sim -V

IBM Platform Symphony 7.1.0.0 build 428035, Oct 26 2016

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2. Start the cluster and enable the application.

Log on to the master host as the cluster administrator and run:

C:\>egosh ego start all

C:\>soamcontrol app enable <appName>

4.4 Uninstallation

1. Stop the cluster.

Log on to the master host as the cluster administrator and run:

C:\>soamcontrol app disable all

C:\>egosh service stop all

C:\>egosh ego shutdown all

2. Uninstall.

You can use Microsoft Windows Control Panel (Control Panel > Programs and Features > View installed updates) to roll back to a previous Platform Symphony package on a Windows host.

You can also roll back Platform Symphony using the command line:

a) Get the Platform Symphony package for Platform Symphony 7.1 (for example, soam7.1_win-x64_build428035.msp in this case).

b) Use following command to rollback Platform Symphony:

C:\>msiexec /uninstall <Sym_SP_path> /package <Sym_7.1_path> /norestart /quiet /l*v <Sym_rollback_log>

Where:

- Sym_SP_name_path is the fully qualified file name of the MSP package in this release.

- Sym_7.1_path is the fully qualified file name of the Platform Symphony 7.1 MSI package.

- Sym_rollback_log is the log file for the Platform Symphony rollback.

For example, to roll back Platform Symphony on a Windows compute host, run:

C:\>msiexec /uninstall C:\soam7.1_win-x64_build428035.msp /package C:\soam7.1_win-x64.msi /norestart /quiet /l*v rollbackSym.log

3. Start the cluster and enable the application.

Log on to the master host as the cluster administrator and run:

C:\>egosh ego start all

C:\>soamcontrol app enable <appName>

5. List of files

soam7.1_win-x64_build428035.msp:

soam\7.1\w2k3_x64-vc7-psdk\etc\sim.exe

soam\7.1\w2k3_x64-vc7-psdk\etc\sim.pdb

6. Copyright and trademark information

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