Known issues for IBM® Tivoli® Asset Discovery for Distributed 7.2.2 interim fix 10 are addressed in this document.
This readme file provides important information about the 7.2.2-TIV-TAD4D-IF0010 interim fix for IBM Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed version 7.2.2. It contains the most current information for the interim fix and takes precedence over all other documentation.
Review this readme file thoroughly before installing or using the interim fix!
| APAR | Abstract | Description | Available since |
|---|---|---|---|
| IV38475 | ILMT 7.2.2/7.5 AGENT SELF-UPDATE ISSUES | During the self-update of agents, the following problems occur: agent custom location is ignored, custom certificate and settings of the tlmagent.ini table are lost. | Interim fix 10 |
| IV37952 | OLD AGENTS UPLOAD INCORRECT MEASURES TO ADM.MEASURE | Agents version lower than 7.2.2 upload incorrect measures to the ADM.MEASURE table. | Interim fix 10 |
| IV37691 | ILMT RETURNS A HIGHER COUNT FOR THE LPAR CORES (VCPUS) THAN THE PHYSICAL/ SERVER CORE (PCPUS) | Due to invalid data that comes from the agents, Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed returns a higher count for the LPAR cores than for the physical cores. | Interim fix 10 |
| IV37389 | PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR SITUATION WHEN SRCMSTR DAEMON IS NOT WORKING | Installation of an agent fails on AIX®, if the System Resource Controller is not working. | Interim fix 10 |
| IV36123 | INCORRECT ORDER OF STARTING AGENT THREADS-SIGNAL HANDLING ISSUES | If agent threads are started in a wrong order, agents are not able to properly handle the SIGPIPE signal. It causes that the process ends and the core is dumped. | Interim fix 10 |
| IV32579 | MISSING INFORMATION ABOUT THE IMPACT OF CPU_THRESHOLD ON SCANS DURATION | Documentation does not clearly state that setting cpu_threshold parameter causes that the execution of a scan on the agent side takes more time. | Interim fix 9 |
| IV33537 | SYSTEMS WITHOUT AGENTS LIST INCORRECT | Agents are installed on devices that have NIC cards with at least two IP addresses. Some of the agents first list an address that is not the IP address that is listed in the Systems without Agents table. Such agents are not removed from the list of systems without agents. | Interim fix 9 |
| IV33963 | WIN 2000 SUPPORT MISMATCH BETWEEN ENG AND JAP INFOCENTER | Windows 2000 is incorrectly listed as a supported agent platform in the Japanese Information Center. | Interim fix 9 |
| IV35808 | PROBLEM WITH DUPLICATED ENTRIES IN ADM.LINK CAUSING IB TO FAIL | Duplicated entries in the ADM.LINK table cause that Inventory Builder fails. | Interim fix 9 |
| IV36365 | SCHEDULED FULL HARDWARE SCAN NOT WORKING FOR VIRTUAL MACHINES IN TAD4D 7.2.2.28 (INTERIM FIX 8) | In Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed version 7.2.2 interim fix 8, full hardware scans are not working on virtual machines even if scheduled. | Interim fix 9 |
| IV23626 | UNABLE TO UPGRADE TO 7.5: PLEASE SPECIFY "-R /VAR/ITLM" OPTION UPGRADE THIS AGENT | An unsupported upgrade scenario was detected for an agent that is newer than version 7.2.2.0 and was installed with the -R/var/itlm option defined. Manual upgrade of an agent that is installed on AIX with the -R option defined is not supported. The only supported upgrading scenario for such an agent is self-update. For more details, go to: http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IV23626. | Interim fix 8 |
| IV15540 | EMPTY VALUE FOR BIOSSERIALNUMBER CAUSES ISSUES WITH | VM manager correctly defines virtualization topologies for guests that have the BIOSSerialNumber attribute empty. | Interim fix 8 |
| IV20562 | WHAT STEPS ARE TAKEN TO VALIDATE THE UPLOADED DATA? | The upload function might allow for uploading scripts with malicious content without any restrictions. If such a file is uploaded, it is possible for the malicious code to be executed. | Interim fix 8 |
| IV31063 | INSTALLING TIVOLI ASSET DISCOVERY FOR DISTRIBUTED AGENTS VIA TCM WILL LEAVE "YES" PROCESS COMMAND RUNNING EVEN AFTER THE AGENT IS INSTALLED SUCCESSFULLY | Installation of Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed agents using Tivoli Configuration Manager leaves the yes process command running even after the agent is installed successfully and the process is ended manually after the installation. | Interim fix 8 |
| IV30409 | VMWARE AGENTS IN PENDING STATUS | If an invalid URL is defined or the VMware machine is incorrectly configured, the Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed server hangs when attempting to connect to the machine, even though the timeout period was correctly configured. Such attempts of connection block the timer on which the VMware Connection task is running (Timer3). If the connection takes twice the amount of time that was defined as the timeout period, the connection thread is broken and the status of the VM manager is changed to Hard timeout - suspended. This status indicates that no further attempts of connecting to the particular VM manager are made until its status is manually changed to Pending. | Interim fix 8 |
| IV29984 | REVOKE PUBLIC GRANTS | One of the steps during the installation of the interim fix grants public access to two tables. It is not required to have that access granted for public. It should be removed. For more details, go to: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=swg1IV29984 | Interim fix 7 |
| IV24904 | MULTI-FILES SIGNATURE WITH SIZE="0" | In the Software Catalog canonical form, the signature definition for IBM Tivoli Security Compliance Manager 5.1.1.1 Client is based on two files. The size of these two files is set to 0 byte therefore Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed scanner should match by file names only, as it is in the case of a single-file signature. Unfortunately, in the multi-file signature case, the agent gets information about size=0 and tries to match by both the name and size of the particular file. For more details, go to: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=swg1IV24904 | Interim fix 7 |
| IV29154 | IF05 INSTALLATION FAILS WHEN USING DB2 9.1 FP1 | One of the steps of interim fix installation
runs the following query on a database: |
Interim fix 7 |
| IV29124 | MISSING INFORMATION IN DOCUMENTATION THAT AGENT'S VERSION CAN NEVER BE HIGHER THAN THE SERVER'S | Documentation lacks information that the version of the agent cannot be higher than the version of the server even at the interim fix level. For more details, go to: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=swg1IV29124 | Interim fix 7 |
| IV28621 | TIVOLI ASSET DISCOVERY FOR DISTRIBUTED 7.2.2 PACKAGE DEPENDENCY, MISSING RPM WITH CORRECT DEPENDENCIES | The package ILMT-TAD4D-agent-7.2.2-1.s390 requires /lib/ld.so.1 and this requirement cannot be provided. For more details, go to: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=swg1IV28621 | Interim fix 7 |
| IV28037 | DESCRIPTION FIELD IS SKIPPED DURING IMPORT | The view custom.signature_v has a field called Description. For every row in the table, the field is empty but it should not be. For more details, go to: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=swg1IV28037 | Interim fix 7 |
| IV26845 | IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO INSTALL AN AGENT ON AIX USING SPB PACKAGE WHEN CUSTOM LOCATION IS BEING USED | It is not possible to install an agent on AIX by using SPB package when the custom location is used. For more details, go to: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=swg1IV26845 | Interim fix 7 |
| IV27978 | UPGRADE OF AN AGENT FROM VERSION 7.5.0.1 TO 7.5.0.2/7.5.0.3 FAILS | Because of a defect in the agent installer,
the following upgrading scenarios fail:
|
Interim fix 7 |
| IV25637 | SURPLUS LOGGING | The following exception was handled properly
and should no longer appear in the Tivoli Asset
Discovery for Distributed logs. |
Interim fix 6 |
| IV26311 | THE MESSAGE 'COULD NOT PARSE SERVICE CONTROL DATA' ON THE AGENT SIDE SHOULD BE REPLACED WITH A MORE MEANINGFUL MESSAGE | When an upload is rejected on the server, the server does not fill the http response according to the right standard. For more details, go to: http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IV26311 | Interim fix 6 |
| IV24091 | THOUSANDS OF AGENTS ARE IN THE CLOSE_WAIT STATE | The problem occurs when the server is overloaded
with scan uploads. It originally occurred in an environment with 26000
agents. When the server is overloaded, the number of connections to
the agent port on the side of the server skyrockets:
|
Interim fix 6 |
| IV26374 | LMTCLI.SG PROCESS ENDS | The lmtcli.sh script fails to start and the process ends. For more details, go to: http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IV26374 | Interim fix 6 |
| IV26884 | AGTDEL COMMAND DELETES ALL AGENTS WHEN AN EMPTY FILE IS PASSED | When an empty file is passed to the agtdel command, it is treated as if no file was passed and all agents with the referenced status are deleted. For more details, go to: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=swg1IV26884 | Interim fix 6 |
| IV20797 | AGENT SELF-UPDATE PROCESS FAILS ON WINDOWS | The upgrade of the Common Inventory Technology scanner is not verified during the self-upgrade of Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed agents from version 7.2.1 to 7.2.2. For more details, go to: http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IV23342 | Interim fix 5 |
| IV22742 | INCORRECT OUTPUT ON THE UI WHEN A PRODUCT IS DISCOVERED ONLY ON SHARED DISCS WITHOUT USAGE BEING REPORTED | When a product is detected only on shared file systems and the usage is not reported, the capacity and subcapacity values are empty. For more details, go to: http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IV22742 | Interim fix 5 |
| IV22830 | TIVOLI ASSET DISCOVERY FOR DISTRIBUTED DOES NOT CORRECTLY DETECT OR CHARE FOR SOFTWARE THAT IS INSTALLED ON NETWORK FILE SYSTEMS | Software that is installed on Network File Systems (NFS) is incorrectly detected when non-file signatures are used. Additionally, the software is incorrectly counted because of the missing use signatures. For more details, go to: http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IV22830 | Interim fix 5 |
| IV24800 | PROBLEM WITH THE CLEANUNMOUNTEDSHAREDDISKSTASK CLASS | The problem occurs because two forward slashes (//) are expected in the path and instances of a single forward slash in the path were encountered. For more details, go to:http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IV24800 | Interim fix 5 |
| IV24985 | BLANK DUPLICATES ARE DISAPLAYED ON THE 'INFRASTRUCTURE > AGENTS' PANEL OF TIVOLI ASSET DISCOVERY FOR DISTRIBUTED | While browsing the panel and filtering the information by the host name of a single agent, numerous duplicate blank rows are returned. Attempts of deleting any of these blank rows result in all blank rows, including the valid entry, being deleted. The problem does not occur in the TLMA database on which a single entry is returned for each agent. Both these agents are virtual machines. For more details, go to: http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IV24985 | Interim fix 5 |
| IV24950 | AGGREGATION HANGS WITH THE TIME OUT ERROR | Software aggregation hangs with a timeout error because of some locks on the database. For more details, go to:http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IV24950 | Interim fix 5 |
| IV24741 | AIX TIVOLI ASSET DISCOVERY FOR DISTRIBUTED AGENT IS SLOW TO RESPOND TO COMMAND-LINE INTERFACE COMMANDS | Agents respond slowly to the command-line interface commands. After installing the Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed agent for AIX PPC v7.5 on an AIX server (both AIX 6.1 and AIX 7.1), the command-line interface commands take about 40 seconds to respond. | Interim fix 5 |
| IV20309 | PROCESSOR IS NOT CORRECTLY MATCHED BY X86 MATCHER | Some processors are not correctly matched by the x86 matcher. The problem probably appears because the processor name contains the space sign, hyphen, or a national language character. For more details, go to: http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IV20309 | Interim fix 4 |
| IV17935 | UPGRADE COMMON INVENTORY TECHNOLOGY SCANNER ON TIVOLI ASSET DISCOVERY FOR DISTRIBUTED AGENT TO THE LATEST AVAILABLE VERSION | The installed version of the Common Inventory Technology scanner is not up-to-date. For more details, go to: http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IV17935 | Interim fix 4 |
| IV15700 | DATA IS TOO LONG TO FIT INTO THE FIELD OF A TLMA DATABASE TABLE | Some software scans return product names that are longer then the current length of the PACKAGE_NAME column of the ADM.NATIVE_SW table (64 characters). The excessive length of product names generates exceptions during the upload and the agent cannot upload the results of the software scan. To solve the problem, you must increase the size of the column to 255 characters. | Interim fix 4 |
| IV24201 | TIVOLI ASSET DISCOVERY FOR DISTRIBUTED HAS PROBLEMS WITH MATCHING THE LOCAL ZONE WITH THE GLOBAL ZONE | The problem occurs when the serial number that is reported by eeprom/SMBIOS on a global zone differs from the hardware serial number that is reported by sysinfo(SI_HW_SERIAL). For more details, go to: http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IV24201 | Interim fix 4 |
| IV20850 | INCORRECT OS_SUB_VERS VALUES AFTER THE UPDATE TO TIVOLI ASSET DISCOVERY FOR DISTRIBUTED 7.2.2.2 | After upgrading to Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed 7.2.2.2, incorrect values are stored in the OS_SUB_VERS column of the tlmhw.computer table. For more details, go to: http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IV20850 | Interim fix 4 |
| IV19879 | LINUX AGENT FAILS WHEN ON READ-ONLY FILE SYSTEM | In this scenario, /efs/dist/ibm/tad/722fp1/exec/ is a read-only file system and the agent requires at least one file in the agent_base_dir location to be writable. For more details, go to: http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IV19879 | Interim fix 3 |
| IV15800 | LICENSETYPE VALUE DOES NOT GET POPULATED DURING CATALOG IMPORT. | A new way of importing the software catalog was introduced in the 7.2.2 release. The License Type parameter is no longer considered in the new design. For more details, go to: http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IV15800 | Interim fix 3 |
| IV17932 | TIVOLI ASSET DISCOVERY FOR DISTRIBUTED 7.2.2 AGGREGATION FAILS | Software aggregation fails in the 7.2.2 release. The problem is caused because the adm.vm records are missing from the agents that are in the incomplete status. For more details, go to: http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IV17932 | Interim fix 3 |
| IV20907 | ONE MONTH SCHEDULE SETTING DOES NOT WORK CORRECTLY | The monthly scheduler for the Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed agent does not work correctly. For more details, go to: http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IV20907 | Interim fix 3 |
| IV23342 | PERFORMANCE FOR UI SOFTWARE PRODUCTS PANEL | The Component panel works slowly in Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed. For more details, go to: http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IV23342 | Interim fix 3 |
The following table lists internal defects that are fixed in the interim fix.
| Defect number | Abstract | Description | Available since |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20128 | Some messages in ACFS are not translated | After installing Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed 7.2.2 server on a system with a supported locale other than American English, and running the ACFS installer, some of the messages are still displayed in English. | Interim fix 10 |
| 19675 | Stand-alone scanner generates corrupted output on specific versions of AIX | After running stand-alone script on AIX, a corrupted output is generated. The plugin.properties file is missing from the compressed output and there are two files with software scan results, one of which is empty. | Interim fix 10 |
| 18722 | Paths in the interim fix package are too long for Windows | Installation of an interim fix package in location longer than C: causes problems because the structure of the file paths that are used for installation is too complex and cannot be properly handled on Windows. | Interim fix 10 |
| 17994 | After installation of the interim fix, logs are not copied to the Tivoli Common Directory | When the installation of an interim fix completes, whether successfully or not, logs should be copied to the Tivoli Common Directory. | Interim fix 10 |
| ID | Abstract | Description | Available since |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17874 | CPU limiter support for use scan and hardware scan | Starting from IF0008, CPU limiter support is now extended over use scan and hardware scan, in addition to currently implemented support for software scan (provided in FP0002). | Interim fix 8 |
| 17124 | Support for NTLMv2 | Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed is now able to authenticate with Hyper-V by using NTLMv2. | Interim fix 7 |
| 16840 | IP Address column added in the Agent Report | The IP Address column was added on the panel. It contains the IP address of a computer on which the agent is installed. The column was also introduced in the PDF and CSV reports. | Interim fix 6 |
| 36707.3 | Events framework - new table to store events that are reported by the server and a number of events | This feature introduces the Events Framework that stores events reported by the server and the number of the events. For more details, go to: http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21600019 | Interim fix 6 |
| 36671 | Signature reported along with component in the instances table | While working with Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed it cannot be easily determined why a certain software detection occurred as no information about the location of the software signature was returned. For more details, go to: http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21600006 | Interim fix 3 |
| 36677 | Recovery from overload - Semaphore on uploads | This change introduces a semaphore into the communication between agents and the server. The semaphore limits the concurrency of software and hardware uploads and thus reduces the risk of running into lock timeouts on the database. For more details, go to: http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21600015 | Interim fix 3 |
| 36707 | Cache values for Download-Parameters and collect summarical time that is spent on handling various requests | This feature introduces cache values for the Download Parameters process and collection of the total time that is spent on handling various requests. For more details, go to: http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21600019 | Interim fix 3 |
| 36707.2 | Performance boost for VM manager connector task (UUIDs cached and 'update topology' logic changed) | This feature introduces performance boost for the VM manager connector task. The UUIDs are cached and changes are introduced in the logic of the Update Topology process. For more details, go to: http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21600019 | Interim fix 3 |
| 15717 | Switching off Software Use data in the PVU calculation | You can use this feature to have all calculations (PVU and STG) performed for all products that are discovered on the shared file systems regardless of whether the software usage of such product instances was detected. For more details, got to: http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21605776 | Interim fix 3 |
Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed agent contains Common Inventory Technology version 2.7.0.2029. For more details about the current changelog for Common Inventory Technology scanner, go to: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=swg21612705.
Before you install the interim fix, make sure that fix pack 7.2.2-TIV-TAD4D-FP0002 is installed with Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed.
To install the fix, you must be logged in as Administrator (on Windows) or root (on UNIX) to the computer where Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed is installed.
If you want to update agents with a particular interim fix, ensure that the Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed server is also updated with the same version of the interim fix. The version of agents that connect to a particular server must be the same as or lower than the version of the server. The version of agents cannot be higher than the version of the server.
| Supported technologies and certified solutions | Available since |
|---|---|
| Installation of Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed agents on the Solaris 11 platform. | Interim fix 8 |
| Use of NTLMv2 protocol for authentication of Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed with Hyper-V. | Interim fix 8 |
| Installation of Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed agents on Windows 8 and Windows 2012 | Interim fix 7 |