Release Notes for ProLiant Support Pack for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, v7.00 ******************************** ucd-snmp-4.2.5-79.rhel3.i386.rpm - A Collection of SNMP Protocol Tools from Net-SNMP for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (x86), v4.2.5-79 Enhancements Added the following: New SNMP cmaX extension to support time ticks and better time out mechanism. New ProLiant Server support. ******************************** ucd-snmp-devel-4.2.5-79.rhel3.i386.rpm - A Collection of SNMP Protocol Tools from Net-SNMP for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (x86), v4.2.5-79 Enhancements Added the following: New SNMP cmaX extension to support time ticks and better time out mechanism. New ProLiant Server support. ******************************** ucd-snmp-utils-4.2.5-79.rhel3.i386.rpm - A Collection of SNMP Protocol Tools from Net-SNMP for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (x86), v4.2.5-79 Enhancements Added the following: New SNMP cmaX extension to support time ticks and better time out mechanism. New ProLiant Server support. ******************************** hprsm-7.0.0-20.rhel3.i386.rpm - HP Lights-Out Drivers and Agents for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, v7.0.0-20 Fixes HP is highly recommending to our customers that are installing Red Hat Linux Enterprise (RHEL) 3 on ProLiant servers to also install Update 1 from Red Hat. More details are located here: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-017.html. Modified to enhance memory allocation. Enhancements Added the display of enclosure information. Modified the activate scheme to be the same as HPASM. ******************************** hpasm-7.0.0-22.rhel3.i386.rpm - HP System Health Application and Insight Management Agents for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, v7.0.0-22 Fixes Removed HTTP default cmawebd passwords for improved security. Fixed Web agent to report Video/Monitor details correctly. Enhancements Added the following: A special logging mechanism to hpasm. This feature enables customers to log all Health driver messages to a specific log file, as well as the /var/log/messages file. See "man hpasm" for details. An email alert feature to hpasm. This feature will send an email to a specified list of email IDs in the case of a Caution/Critical event. See "man hpasm" for details. Support for new HP ProLiant Hardware. Consolidation of foundation and server agents into one peer agent. Group config feature for cmawebd. New SNMP cmaX extension to support time ticks and a better time out mechanism. Firmware versions are now populated in MIB. System Management Homepage release pulls in the OpenSSL 0.9.6k Release which fixed some security vulnerabilities. ******************************** cpq_cciss-2.4.48-10.rhel3.i686.rpm - ProLiant Linux driver (x86) for Smart Array 6i, 64xx, 5i, 5300 Series controllers for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3(x86), v2.4.48-10 Fixes Resolved issue with sharing an irq with another controller. Updated the rpm installer scripts to correctly identify the kernel image in the boot configuration file. Enhancements Added support for the following: Devfs file system. Detecting controller failure. (see notes in detect death patch) Greater than 8 controllers in the system. Updated the following: To ensure that if no pci devices are found, the driver is unregistered. To use __devinit instead of __init. The author and version numbers. Unified Ciss driver- built from source not patches. New HP naming convention for RPM. Added latest errata support: Distribution Errata Kernel Version Red Hat Linux 7.2, 7.3, 8.0 2.4.20-20.x Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 2.4.9-e27 SUSE Linux Enterprise 7 2.4.18-275, 280 UnitedLinux 1.0 2.4.19-333, 340 UnitedLinux 1.0, SP3 - No RPM required NOTE: version 2.4.48 is in the SP3 kernel. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 NOTE: rpm created for base kernel ******************************** cmanic-7.0.0-4.linux.i686.rpm - NIC Agents for Servers - Linux, v7.0.0-4 Fixes Modified to correctly display the time elapsed between the link status changes of link up to link down or link down to link up. Enhancements HP highly recommends that our customers who are installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 on a ProLiant server also install Update 1 (2.4.21-9.EL kernel) or greater. More details are located here: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-017.html. ******************************** e100-2.2.21c-1.src.rpm - HP ProLiant NC31xx Fast Ethernet NIC Driver for Linux, v2.2.21c-1 Fixes The documentation for this driver now provides a description regarding future discontinuation of the /proc file system. Enhancements This driver now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. The documentation (readme.txt) for this driver has been updated with the latest supported errata kernel versions and now describes the future discontinuation of the /proc file system. ******************************** e1000-5.0.43c-1.src.rpm - HP ProLiant NC 61xx/71xx/310x Gigabit Ethernet NIC Driver for Linux, v5.0.43c-1 Fixes The documentation for this driver now provides a description regarding future discontinuation of the /proc file system. Enhancements This driver now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. The documentation (readme.txt) for this driver has been updated with the latest supported errata kernel versions and now describes the future discontinuation of the /proc file system. ******************************** bcm5700-6.2.17a-1.src.rpm - HP ProLiant NC 10xx/67xx/77xx/150x/320x Gigabit Ethernet NIC Driver for Linux, v6.2.17a-1 Fixes This driver no longer creates a panic when it loads on Red Hat 7.2 and Red Hat 7.3. This driver package no longer installs incorrectly after uninstallation, so you can uninstall and reinstall the driver using the rpm. Enhancements This driver now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. The documentation (readme.txt) for this driver now: Contains information about forcing speed and auto duplex to prevent the condition in which the driver was not linking at 10Mbps/full duplex mode. Describes in more detail the behavior of transmit and receive flow control behavior using the tx_flow_control and rx_flow_control configurable parameters. Contains a Special Note for Red Hat 7.2 Big Mem installations. ******************************** vlan-1.8.0-12.src.rpm - HP Tested and Approved Linux 802.1q VLAN Driver, v1.8.0-12 Fixes This driver no longer Has problems in removing vlans when /proc entries are not created. Displays extraneous messages at boot time. Returns permission denied errors from ioctls during compilation. Enhancements This driver now supports the following Linux distributions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Red Hat Linux 7.3 SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 7 This driver now provides kernel warning messages when a /proc entry cannot be created for a vlan. The vlan startup script now provides a way to obtain current vlan status by means of the /etc/init.d/vlan status command. ******************************** bonding-1.0.4d-1.src.rpm - HP Tested and Approved Linux Bonding Driver, v1.0.4d-1 Fixes The Makefile for this driver now builds with the compiler used to build the kernel. A device being made a master is no longer brought down. This change prevents the ifenslave -c failure that was caused by setting a down device as the master. Enhancements This driver now supports the MAC and MTU functionality. ******************************** cmastor-7.0.0-16.linux.i386.rpm - HP Storage Agents for Linux, v7.0.0-16 Fixes Resolved following issues: File system may not be cleanly umounted on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 and UnitedLinux 1.0, if both hpasm-6.40 and cmastor-6.40 are installed and hpasm is still running when system shuts down. Disk partition table for /dev/sd* devices may not be accessible when Storage Agents are running. Fixed memory leaks. Enhancements Added support for the following: CSB-6 Ultra ATA-100 IDE RAID Controller. Storage box backplane speed. Array tape. PCI-X 2Gb FCA2214DC Fibre Channel HBA ******************************** hpasm-jlk-7.0.0-7.i386.rpm - Server Management Agent for Linux - Japanese Language Kit, v7.0.0-7 Fixes Maintenance release for SmartStart, v7.00. ******************************** cpqacuxe-7.0-1.linux.i386.rpm - HP Array Configuration Utility for Linux, v7.0-1 Enhancements Enhanced Features of ACU 7.0 Local-only Mode* – ACU, on Windows Platforms, now defaults to a local application mode that does not require a web server, running essentially as a native application using a web browser. ACU can also be configured to run as a Windows service with a web server and accessed remotely for configuration. ACU on Linux always runs in Web server mode. Stream-lined interface – ACU has an improved, streamlined interface which requires substantially fewer mouse clicks than previous versions. Keyboard Support – ACU supports enhanced keyboard controls for quick task execution. ACU no longer requires a mouse to use. Hot-keys – ACU supports Hotkeys for the most popular configuration tasks. ACU Help documents the various keys. Right-click Menus - ACU supports a Right-Click task menu for quick access on configurable items. “Classic” Configuration Method – ACU defaults to a Standard configuration path, very similar to the ACU "classic" win32 interface, which lists all available tasks for quick access on any selected controller. Note: Configuration Wizards are still available and can be selected. Scripting – ACU supports command-line array configuration replication through the use of capture/input files. This interface can be used for command-line configuration without a user interface. * certain features subject to availability depending on the type of Smart Array controller installed and the operating system used. Existing Features of the Web-based ACU ACU supports automatic or express configuration, configuration wizards, and custom configuration paths to meet all configuration needs. ACU supports context sensitive FAQs in both Express and Configuration Wizards. ACU supports hot-plug of controllers (PCI and Fibre) without having to restart the application, simply use the rescan link. ACU supports RAID ADG (Advanced Data Guarding), on certain controllers, which supports up to 2 simultaneous physical drive failures. ACU supports the assigning of multiple spares per array to support multiple physical drive failures. ACU supports SSP (Selective Storage Presentation) for Smart Array Cluster (MSA500) and MSA1000 controllers to assign access permissions to logical drives. ACU also supports the assigning of Host Modes to logical drives on the MSA1000. ACU running in Web server mode on either OS Platform allows multiple clients to configure multiple controllers attached to a single host without interfering with any other client's changes. ACU provides a simple setup dialog that allows the selection between modes of execution. ACU supports the setting of Surface Scan delay. Added additional stripe sizes for RAID 5 for Smart Array 6400 and Smart Array 6400 EM controllers with Firmware(FW) version 1.40 and above. Default stripe size remains 64 KB. These controllers now support up to 256 KB stripe sizes from FW version 1.40 and higher. Updated the following: Hot Keys for tasks. ACU Help details the various Hot Keys available. ACU now supports keyboard controls for the Mozilla/Netscape browsers. Unused space is now a clickable item in the Config View. ACU now supports a right-click mouse menu on the Config View in Standard Configuration Mode. ACU now supports the Re-Enable Failed Logical Drive task which allows you to re-enable failed logical drives after failed physical drives have been replaced. ACU now detects hotplug drives in non-intelligent storage enclosures. Updated OpenSSL to 0.9.6k Release which fixed some security vulnerabilities. ******************************** Copyright 2003-2004 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.