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8348_810.1549.20151116d_update.hpm

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OP810.00
For Impact, Severity and other Firmware definitions, Please refer to the below 'Glossary of firmware terms' url:
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/power5cm/home.html#termdefs

8348_810.1549 / OP810.21

12/14/15

Impact:  Security      Severity:  PE

System Firmware changes that affect all systems

• •

• A problem was fixed for a firmware update failure where the Hardware Package Manager (HPM) fails at the end of the image upload with "compcode=0x81: Unknown (0x81)". This error was caused by logging conflicts in the BMC. If the fix for this problem cannot be applied because the firmware update is failing with "0x81", the BMC needs to be switched to the golden side prior to the firmware update. For this service, contact IBM Support at "http://www.ibm.com/support" to have them change the BMC to the golden side and do the firmware update.

• •A problem was fixed to close a security exposure for the BMC.

8348_810.1549 / OP810.20

12/08/15

Impact:  Serviceability      Severity:  PE

System Firmware changes that affect all systems

• •

• A problem was fixed for a BMC service processor system warm reset with chassis power off that intermittently caused a SEL for a "Hard reset" as "| Watchdog 2 Watchdog | Hard reset | Asserted".

• •A problem was fixed for the "CPU TEMP" processor temperature sensor reporting as "na" instead of providing the processor temperature as needed. For the failure, the report is shown this way: "CPU1 Temp | na | degrees C | na | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 255.000 | 255.000 | 255.000".

• •A problem was fixed for the BMC becoming unresponsive and inaccessible from the network after system is running for 7 to 10 days. This was caused by a large memory leak on the BMC. When this failure occurs, the system administrator can allow the system to run until a power cycle (by unplugging the power cords after shutting down the system from the host OS) can be scheduled to clear the BMC of the error.

• •A problem was fixed in OPAL for NX unit checkstops not being reported in the system error log. These are rare NX faults that were forced by error injection methods in the IBM lab to detect the improper handling of the error condition by OPAL.

• •A problem was fixed in Hostboot that prevented the IPL of system when a DIMM error was not detected and memory was not guarded as needed to allow the IPL to continue. This error has SEL reference codes BC8A0D03 and BC8A1701 reported at the Hostboot istep 13.6 that does the memory initialization. Without the fix, the failing memory DIMM has to be manually replaced before the system will IPL. The location of the failed memory can be determined by diagnosing the SEL events.

8348_810.1543 / OP810.10

11/30/15

Impact:  Serviceability      Severity:  PE

System Firmware changes that affect all systems

• •

• A problem was fixed for the BMC service processor system error log (SEL) showing a non-relevant "Temperature CPU Diode Sensor" errror log. A change was made to filter the error logs since it is not a serviceable event.

• •A problem was fixed for the BMC service processor system error log (SEL) showing an extra SEL ("OCC 1 Active" or "OCC 2 Active sensor disabled") during a power off of the system. A change was made to filter the error logs since they do not pertain to a real problem.

• •A problem was fixed for a Nessus network security scan detecting that SSLv2 and SSLv3 protocols were active on the BMC. The BMC has been changed to disable SSLv3 and only use TLS to improve the security of the communications. This may affect BMC connectivity for users that have browsers still using the legacy protocols and those users may need to upgrade their clients to use TLS to fix the connection issues.

• •A problem was fixed for the BMC not being able to recover from an intermittent power supply fault. With the fix, the BMC retries the power on so that the power on is able to succeed and also provides a SEL for the initial power on fault.

• •A problem was fixed for the ipmitool retrieval of Power Sequencer extended System Error Logs (eSELs) from the BMC. Without the fix, these eSELs cannot be retrieved but they are needed for problem diagnostics.

• •A problem was fixed for a ssh service running unexpectedly in the petiboot environment. The ssh service is no longer run as it was not actively being used.

System firmware changes that affect certain systems

• •On a system with a Ubuntu guest running on a PowerKVM 3.1 host, a problem was fixed for PCI link reset errors on a IBM Power Raid (IPR) adapter. The PCI links may fail to train on a reset. The fix hardens the PCI fundamental reset by retrying as needed to complete the reset.

8348_810.1539 / OP810.00

10/30/15

Impact:  New      Severity:  New

New features and functions for MTM 8348-21C:

GA Level

NOTE: 

• •This firmware release supports only the OPAL Hypervisor and the Ubuntu  14.04.03 operating system. 

GA restrictions on use of the BMC Advanced System Managment (ASM) web gui for doing firmware updates:

1. •Use the Google Chrome browser at level 46.0.2490.71 m. Other browsers are failing for firmware updates.

2. •ASM firmware update of single components do not work. Select all components for update (which is the default).

3. •Back to back in-band update do not work and required reboot between two consecutive in-band updates.

4. •Preserve configuration menu is not provided as an option during the ASM HPM update flow. The user has to go to the ASM Maintenance menu and set appropriate preserve flags before using ASM to firmware updates.