Overview and Recommended levels

PowerHA 7.1.3 Service Pack 8 is now available for download as of November, 2017.

NOTE: PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1.3 SP 8 testing has been done on the following AIX levels and are recommended:

  • AIX 7.2.1 SP2
  • AIX 7.2.0 SP4
  • AIX 7.1.4 SP4
  • AIX 7.1.3 SP9
  • AIX 6.1.9 SP9

Content

The Service Pack contains all the known fixes since SP7. See the complete list of APARs included in the later section.

The previous service pack, SP7, contained additional filesets that enable PowerHA SystemMirror Graphical Health Dashboard (GUI) Client support for PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1.3 Clusters. With these filesets, an administrator can deploy a PowerHA SystemMirror 7.2.1 based health dashboard server and use it to monitor and manage PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1.3 clusters in the environment.

Health Dashboard Client images are shipped as part of the SP7 updates. This includes a communication agent that interacts with the GUI Server. The agent will not be active after the installation completes. The agent will remain dormant until the 7.1.3 cluster is registered by the administrator with a 7.2.1 GUI server.

Note: To take advantage of the health dashboard client support for 7.1.3 clusters, an administrator should deploy PowerHA SystemMirror 7.2.1 GUI server. For more details, refer to the article at PowerHA Health Dashboard. Note: To be able to successfully register 7.1.3 clusters with 721 GUI server, you would need to update the 721 GUI server with some patches, as well. These updates are available at:

https://ibm.biz/PowerHAFixes

Installing GUI Client support on PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1.3

To install the GUI enablement, you can either use the standard, new fileset installer (it can also install updates; for example, "smitty install"), or do a two-step installation via an update, then install (for example, "smitty update all", then "smitty install"). The first method is simpler, installing the updates and new fileset in a single operation, so it is recommended.

A fix needs to be installed on 7.2.1 GUI server for it to work with 713 clusters. Please visit the IFix Bundle webpage for downloading GUI Fixes for 7.2.1.

 

AIX and PowerHA: Latest Fix Information

There could be some newer fixes for the Service Pack (since the release time). To review any important fixes that could be applicable to this Service Pack, please visit the following web page:

https://ibm.biz/PowerHAFixes

This page lists critical Fix bundles (collection of epkgs for AIX and PowerHA) that may be applicable for various AIX and PowerHA levels. APARs included in the Fix bundle are listed in the description file that is part of the Fix bundle tar file epkgs. You can view it without opening the ipkg by running "emgr -d -v3 -e <epkg name>". Note that these Fix Bundles were tested together and hence it is highly recommended that they be applied together as a bundle.

 

New APARs included in this service pack

APAR#

Description

IJ00087

all the supported classes are not listing for clmgr

IJ00088

missing contextual help messages in smit

IJ00383

modification of repomg throwing usage error in dare

IJ00412

adding wpar to rg causing cluster state to move rp_failed

IJ00443

ha:mcast to unicast via clmgr may fail when verbose_logging=high

IJ00503

file collection is failing during verify & sync in xd conf

IJ00505

wpar is getting created on only home node

IJ00590

failed to disable cluster security

IJ00591

cspoc change/show vg not working

IJ00635

glvm data not in sync after clstop/clstart of standby node

IJ00915

clmgr displays unexpected warnings on stderr

IJ00922

clmgr can report different powerha versions

IJ00930

cleanipc should not be called always for scs instance

IJ00937

core dump if capabilities in caa more than powerha supported

IJ00962

adding second new node to existing cluster fails

IJ01097

clmgr query cluster missing fix level in version

IV92124

nested mounts in wrong order for typed flesystems

IV93321

ha: clver needs to check for xd_data network.

IV93695

sap s.assist: cleanup of as instance may lead to config_too_long

IV93741

powerha c-spoc exports and cannot import a volume group

IV94337

haes610tohaes713 doesn't have logic to add manage_rdisk stanza

IV94541

system crash during hyperswap site failover

IV94754

hyperswap manual resync fails for system mirror group

IV95360

ha: erroneously complain about rg/vg during cluster startup

IV95690

variable 'num_parallel_lps' not honored by cl_sync_vgs

IV96273

powerha72: duplicate cspoc smit entry after migration from ha713

IV96346

sap maxdb automatic discovery failure

IV96461

dlpar may incorrectly acquire cod resources when not necessary

IV96570

cannot delete invalid repository disk

IV96572

clmgr rejects the dash character in mirror pool names

IV96599

c-spoc extendvg disk list incorrect

IV96802

hacmp: dnp doesn't work after dare

IV96862

powerha smart assist fails to find db2 instance

IV96871

hacmp: "clmgr view pv" only lists unused disk

IV97470

c-spoc password change does not recognize aix password failures

IV97737

clmgr 'add node' incorrectly adds fqdn to rhosts file

IV97984

sap s.assist: lack of nfs over udp leads to rg acquire failure

IV98102

clmgr modify rg fallover=fnpn does not remove sdnp config

IV98109

harmless 'cluster services are not active' message at first sync

IV98420

svcpprc verification doesn't allow valid ip config

IV98447

powerha: clver may core dump after erroneous error messages.

IV98733

powerha: inconsistent time stamps in powerha log files and gui.

IV99066

varyonvg failure may not lead to rg in error state

IV99320

ha: unable to reset automatic verification configuration by smit

IV99360

clmgr cannot add multiple service ips to rg

IV99368

powerha does not send rg_move_complete event for rg offline

IV99371

enh_ras: node_up script/scripts.cat: correct message 9972

IV99375

backup repositories shows 'up' instead of 'backup'

IV99378

smit shows wrong help message in physical volumes

IV99381

getting junk messages when creating fs and lv

IV99384

vg modification to 'critical' using clmgr is not working

IV99388

shows "invalid argument" message for unreachable lpar

IV99392

manage critical volume groups option not listing available vgs

IV99395

smit help is missing

IV99399

clmgr vg modification failed with mirror pool options

IV99403

disk size needed from clmgr for gui support

IV99426

clmgr offline cluster may show misleading error

IV99428

ha: cl_deactivate_fs may hang when external nfs in use

IV99429

add node to cluster shows cl_auto_versync_options: not found

IV99430

db2 smart assist start does not source profile

IV99433

powerha: only first resource group moves if there's a netw down

IV99442

ha: cl_auto_versync does not display error messages

IV99447

ha_mig: error messages when removing sm 711 sp4 software

IV99450

ha:file collection message change

IV99476

ha_sp: clchserv command is showing wrong help message

IV99478

syntax error in cl_waslsnode.sh

IV99480

fixes for sp test failures

IV99483

sap maxdb discovery may throw dspmsg error

IV99719

clrginfo -t information incorrect

IV99722

failed to change site name in dare

IV99745

ha_svt: clmgr q app is returning 1 if no apps are configured

IV99762

v&s failed with emc file sets not found errors

IV99798

replace repo not giving error in verify_sync for repmg

Cumulative APARs from previous service packs included in this service pack

  APAR#

  Description

Filesets with associated APARs

Fileset_VRMF
(PTF#)

Associated APARs