Sun N1 System Manager 1.3.3 Release Notes

Documentation Updates

This section describes known documentation updates, including documentation errors.

Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Document Collection Issue

When instructed to “log in as root”, either use the “su - root” command or physically log in to the server using the server's root account and password.

Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Site Preparation Guide Issue

The information in the second list item of the Linux OS Installation Requirements section is incorrect. The information should read as follows:

If you are installing Red Hat Enterprise LinuxAS 4.0 Update 1 or later, when prompted whether to enable SELinux, choose Disable. N1 System Manager does not support SELinux enabled even in permissive mode.

Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Discovery and Administration Guide Issue

The restricted mode capabilities of the show privilege command are not correct. This command is available only to the SecurityAdmin role.

Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Installation and Configuration Guide Issue

The information on the port used by IPMI in Appendix A, Sun N1 System Manager Protocol, Ports, and Features Reference, in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Installation and Configuration Guide is incorrect. IPMI uses the UDP protocol and not TCP.

Invalid Swap Threshold Properties Are Mentioned in N1 System Manager 1.3 Documentation (6478871)

Invalid swap threshold properties are mentioned in Full OS Monitoring (With Thresholds) in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Discovery and Administration Guide. The properties memusage.mbswapfree and memusage.pctswapfree are not valid.

Invalid swap threshold properties are mentioned in set group in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Command Line Reference Manual. The properties memusage.mbswapfree and memusage.pctswapused are not valid.

Invalid swap threshold properties are displayed when you type help set group from the n1sh shell prompt. The properties memusage.mbswapfree and memusage.pctswapused are not valid.

The following attributes are valid:

Command-Line Help Issues

This section provides documentation errors in the command-line help pages.

Specifying the force and netboot Attributes

The force and netboot attributes are documented in the command-line help pages without a corresponding value. You must specify true as their values to provide a valid command, such as force=true or force true.

Description of bootip Attribute Is Incomplete

The command-line help page mentions that the bootip attribute is required only to provision Linux. However, the bootip attribute is also required to provision Windows.

create os Errors

The type attribute is not valid with the file and cdrom attributes. When copying OS images, the OS type is automatically determined.

Grid Engine Module Name Is Incorrect

The Grid Engine module name used for the CLI type attribute value must be GridEngine instead of n1ge. This affects the following commands: