* RECOMMENDED * HP Management Agents for VMware ESX Server 3.x ONLY (Not for ESXi Server 3.x)

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HP recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

• For Emulex LPe11000 connected to HP StorageWorks MSA1000, the Port number/name is being displayed for Physical drives present in the System Management Homepage.
• The SAN information associated with an HP StorageWorks MSA1000 is now displayed in the Storage Box in the System Management Homepage. 
•  HP Smart Array P410 Controller information is populated in the Storage Box in the System Management Homepage.
• When logical drives are NOT created for a SA controller, the Controller information is now populated in the Storage Box in the System Management Homepage.
  

• Support for HP Integrated Lights-Out 3 (iLO3) 

Upgrade Requirement:
Recommended - HP recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

• System Management Homepage is now responding after a fiber channel cable is removed from its connection to an Emulex HBA.

• Support for VMware ESX Server 3.5.0 U5

• On the System Management Homepage under the File System Space Used,  the values are incorrect if you go above 1TB  for a disk. 
• Fan status was incorrectly displayed as “Degraded” when the fan was removed. Status is now shown as “Unknown"

• Support for VMware ESX Server 3.5.0 U4

• After a silent installation or upgrade at some customer sites, an issue was seen where the message “No failed/degraded items” is displayed in the System Management Home page after the installation is complete. The installer has been fixed to address this by performing an additional restart of the snmp daemon.

•  Support for VMware ESX 3.5.0 U3

• Help pages now exist for the NIC section in System Management Home Page
• System Management Homepage (SMH) might show 'connection-timeout' error message if we try to refresh it a couple of times quickly. You might have to restart the hpmshd service to be able to login to SMH again. This usually happens when iLo/iLO2 is being reset and the SMH is refreshed.
• The hpsmhd service might show the following error messages while restarting it after a 'connection-timeout' error is displayed by the SMH, but still the hpsmhd service will be restarted successfully: 
      Problem receiving data: Connection reset by peer (104)
      Connected to 127.0.0.1:2301....
      sent /proxy/reconnect...counter=1, status=104
• Under Home->Storage-><Controller Link>->Physical Drive, there is a button named Identify Drives. When this button is clicked, the LEDs on the Physical drive(s) starts blinking; then the stop button is clicked, the LEDs on the physical drives stop blinking but the drive status on the web page still shows blinking.
• It is no longer necessary to stop the Pegasus service before  performing “service hpasm start” or “service hpasm stop”
• On the NIC display for the System Management Homepage when the NIC being shown is a 10G NIC, the speed is now displayed correctly as 10Gbps

• Added activation of port 2301 during installation to support HP System Insight Manager
• Support for VMware ESX 3.0.3 and VMware ESX 3.5.0 U2

Added support for VMware ESX 3.5.0 U1

Only those customers who have installed or upgraded to VMware ESX 3.5.0 U1 are required to upgrade to this release.

There is no functional difference between this release and the previous release.

Fixed an issue where the /var/spool/compaq/cma.log file used to show the following message frequently:

cmastdeqd[25971]: systemId:  (null)   subsystemId:  DA\3305

Fixed an issue wherein the 'Save Threshold' button was present under 'Processor Utilization' section when logged in with "User" or "Anonymous" privileges.

The hpasmxld daemon will terminate and subsequently cause the server to reset due to an IPMI Watchdog Timer / Automatic Server Recovery (ASR) event. The problem only occurs when a communication issue occurs between the iLO2 (BMC) processor and the Linux IPMI driver. Even then, not every iLO2 event can cause this failure. The hpasmxld daemon code has been corrected to recognize this event and compensate for it rather than abruptly terminate.

An issue has been fixed wherein the iLO NIC Duplex and other statistics were not being updated when the iLO cable was removed.

An issue has been fixed wherein the System Management Homepage was showing a "Connection-Timeout" error when refreshed, after removing a NIC cable from a network adapter which was not assigned to the Service Console.

The cmarackd and cpqriisd sub-agents were getting loaded on c-Class Blade servers even though they are not required. This issue has now been fixed with this release.

NIC Agent (cmanic) package is merged into the HP System Health Application and Insight Management Agents (hpasm) as a single rpm package.

The Integrated Management Log (IML) Viewer Application (cpqimlview) has been removed from this version. 

Added support for NIC Controller Firmware Version MIB object.

Fixed an issue where the cmahostd process was generating defunct processes frequently.

Fixed an issue where the hp-OpenIPMI driver rebuild fails on VMware ESX Server 3.x.x when the file /etc/issue is edited.

Resolved an issue where the network port mapping may not properly be reported on the HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure. The symptom of the problem is an incorrect enclosure bay will be reported for an associated network port and is exhibited in the HP NIC Agents for VMware ESX and other HP ProLiant Linux applications that rely on the "hpasmcli" utility (included in the hpasm package) to provide the HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure network port bay mappings.

Resolved an issue where Fibre Channel agent was not able to detect fibre port's status change when fibre link was down.

Fixed an issue wherein the Embedded NIC links were displayed as "Embedded HP Embedded NCxxxx Gigabit Server Adapter" in System Management Homepage with ESX 3.0.x installed on DL380 G4 and ML370 G4.

Fixed an issue wherein the HP ProLiant DL585 G2 server running VMware ESX Server 3.0.1 became unresponsive when the hpasm service was continuously restarted.

The health related traps are now sent to HP SIM immediately after the installation of Agents, avoiding the need to restart the hpasm service.

Fixed an issue where snmpd.conf file was getting deleted when hpasm package was removed without ever being activated.

Resolved an issue where snmpwalk could not read data from fibre attachment table due to huge table index number.

Added support to display HP Smart Array controller drive write cache state when the state is enabled.

Removed serial log output events from the message queue between cmaeventd and cmaidad to prevent message queue overflow.

Updated health agents to handle memory configurations in upcoming server lines.

Changed SMBIOS access routines to handle changes made in ROM.

System and Power Supply Health Status are now displayed correctly in System Management Homepage after upgrading the HP Insight Manager Agents from older versions to v7.8.0 on VMware ESX Server 3.0.0 or 3.0.1.

Fixed an issue wherein a debug message reading "Message Class : 0x24" was displayed frequently on the service console in VMware ESX Server.

During installation and configuration of the Insight Manager agents bundle, the "Press any key to continue..." message responded only to the ENTER key. The message has been changed to "Press ENTER key to continue...".

If we login with a user or anonymous privilege to System Management Homepage and click on Integrated Management Log (IML), it will show a login link at the bottom of the IML page. Fixed an issue wherein it used to show a blank page when clicking on this login link.

Support has been added for VMware ESX Server 3.0.2.

The health agent has been enhanced to eliminate redundant polling to determine the health of the memory subsystem on some HP ProLiant Systems. Excessive polling could lead to some lost ticks being reported by the kernel.

The hp-OpenIPMI man page has been updated to describe new debug features and explain some informational and warning messages.

A new functionality has been added to not add the user and group name “hpsmh” if the user does not wish to enable the HP ProLiant System Management Homepage.

The hpasm man page has been updated to describe the integration with the System Management Homepage.

A new functionality has been added to not default the value for the hpsmh user and group name to “79". For those customers who choose the default setting to enable hpsmh support, the user name "hpsmh" and the group name "hpsmh" will take the default UID and GID provided by the "useradd" and "groupadd" utilities.

The hprsm man page has been updated to describe the hprsm package rebuild process.

Fixed an issue wherein the storage agents consumed excessive CPU time, potentially resulting in server reboots (ASRs). The CCISS device nodes are now kept open by default on all servers to workaround this issue

Fixed an issue wherein excessive SNMP connection log messages reading "ucd-snmp: Connection from 127.0.0.1" were being recorded into /var/log/messages

The manual pages for the HPASM agents have been updated

Fixed an issue wherein the help pages for the NIC agents were not being displayed in the System Management Homepage

Error messages written to /opt/compaq/cma.log reading "modprobe: Can't locate module mptctl Can not open /dev/mptctl, errno = 19" have been fixed

The status for DVD/CD devices is now updated properly under the Storage link in System Management Homepage

The help pages for Rack Asset, Server Enclosure and Power Enclosure are now displayed properly when launched from the System Management Homepage

The Insight Manager agents bundle for VMware is now released in two separate packages for ESX 2.5.x and 3.0.x, from this release onwards

Added support for new hardware including ProLiant servers with Quad Core Intel Xeon processors, new network adapters like NC364T and NC110Tn, etc.

Added browser support in System Management Homepage to include Internet Explorer 7.0

Added the hp-OpenIPMI package to the Insight Manager bundle

Includes the following Enhancements and fixes from the 7.6.0 (A) Insight Manager Agents release:

• Added support for ESX 2.5.4 and ESX 3.0.1.
• Added support for the HP ProLiant Intel G5 servers, HP ProLiant c-class blade servers and HP ProLiant AMD G2 servers.
• This version of the HP Insight Manager agents now supports 4 GB Emulex and Qlogic HBAs.
• On servers having more than 4GB of physical memory, the storage agents will now prompt during the agents activation to keep the CCISS device nodes open. Keeping the CCISS device nodes open helps achieve better performance.

• ESX 2.5.4 and ESX 3.0.1
  
• HP ProLiant Intel G5 servers, HP ProLiant c-class blade servers and HP ProLiant AMD G2 servers.

On servers having more than 4GB of physical memory, the storage agents will now prompt during the agents activation to keep the CCISS device nodes open. Keeping the CCISS device nodes open helps achieve better performance.

Added IPMI support with ESX 3.0.0. This version of the agents uses the IPMI driver to retrieve the status of system health, on servers which have the iLO2 management controller.

The link for Emulex FC HBA is now displayed in the agents' page with ESX 3.0.0.

The disk usage thresholds are now saved when the agents are upgraded to v7.5.1a from previous versions (v7.4.x).

The QLogic ISP2312 FC mezzanine HBA installed on BL25p/BL45p is now displayed in the agents page as Fibre Channel HBA.

• To allow the disk usage thresholds to be set.
  
• The new install script to support upgrades from older versions of the HP Insight Manager Agents.

• VMFS disk usage is now reported.


• System Management Homepage. The System Management homepage is now a separate package. System Management homepage uses system accounts for authentication.


• New command line syntax for installation.