IBM Platform Symphony 7.1 Interim Fix 437350 Readme File

IBM Platform Symphony 7.1 Interim Fix 437350 Readme File

Abstract

In some cases, SIM encounters errors from the onCreateService and onSessionEnter, SI methods, which trigger both onCreateService and onSessionEnter error handling.

Description

In some cases, if the onCreateService method fails, this will trigger both onCreateService and onSessionEnter error handling, whereas the correct behavior is to only trigger the onCreateService error handling.

This interim fix applies only to the following platform:

Windows 64-bit

Readme file for: IBM® Platform Symphony

Product/Component Release: 7.1 FP1

Update Name: Interim Fix 437350

Fix ID: sym-7.1-build437350

Publication date: 19 January 2017

Last modified date: 19 January 2017

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: P102069

2. Download location

Download Fix 437350 from the following location: http://www.ibm.com/eserver/support/fixes/

3. Products or components affected

Product/Component Name, Platform, Fix ID:

Platform Symphony/sim, Windows 64-bit, sym-7.1-build437350

4. Installation and configuration

4.1 Before installation

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

C:\>soamcontrol app disable all

4.2 Installation steps

Copy the soam7.1_win-x64_build437350.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_build437350.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 installing by running sim.exe -V:

>sim.exe -V

IBM Platform Symphony 7.1.0.0 build 437350, Jan 11 2017

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2. Enable the application.

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

C:\>soamcontrol app enable <appName>

4.4 Uninstallation

1. Disable the application.

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

C:\>soamcontrol app disable all

2. Uninstall.

You can use the Microsoft Windows Control Panel (Control Panel > Programs and Features > View installed updates) to roll back to a previous Platform Symphony package on a Windows compute 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.msi 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_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_build437350.msp /package C:\soam7.1_win-x64.msi /norestart /quiet /l*v rollbackSym.log

3. Enable the application.

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

C:\>soamcontrol app enable <appName>

5. List of files

sim.exe

sim.pdb

6. Copyright and trademark information

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