New Features and Support

This software release contains the following enhancements:

New OS support for RHEL4.5 and RHEL5.

Note - RHEL5 Customers: Some RHEL5 drivers are not available. For details, see "Invalid Cross-Reference Format".

New Resource CD support for:

Linux support for MSM IR (Version 1.19)

LSI SNMP agent

RHEL5 PXE installation

suncfg utility

LSI CFGEN for WinPE

Sun Installation Assistant (SIA) CD (version 2.0.134) adds new OS support. Support now includes:

RHEL5_64

RHEL4.5_32

RHEL4.5_64

Windows 2003 SP1 Installation Assistant

SIA installs a set of Sun-supported drivers that have been tested for quality assurance.

For a current list of supported operating systems for these servers, refer to one of the following Web sites:

http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x4100/os.jsp

http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x4200/os.jsp

Component Versions by Release

The ILOM firmware, system BIOS, and LSI firmware versions are usually updated in each new software release. Refer to the tables below for details on the released versions.

TABLE 1 Software Release 1.4 Component Versions
Component Name	Sun Fire X4100 Server Version	Sun Fire X4200 Server Version
ILOM FW	Version 1.1.8, Build 18244	Version 1.1.8, Build 18244
BIOS	0ABIT041	0ABIT041
LSI Firmware	fw1.16.40-bios6.14.04	fw1.16.40-bios6.14.04
Motherboard	501-7513 (RoHS compliant)	501-7514 (RoHS compliant)

TABLE 2 Software Release 1.3 Component Versions
Component Name	Sun Fire X4100 Server Version	Sun Fire X4200 Server Version
ILOM FW	Version 1.1.1, build 15632	Version 1.1.1, build 15632
BIOS	0ABGA039	0ABGA039
LSI Firmware	fw1.16.00-bios6.10.00B	fw1.16.00-bios6.10.00B
Motherboard	501-7513 (RoHS compliant)	501-7514 (RoHS compliant)

TABLE 3 Software Release 1.2.1 Component Versions
Component Name	Sun Fire X4100 Server Version	Sun Fire X4200 Server Version
ILOM FW	Version 1.0.5a, build 12513	Version 1.0.5a, build 12513
BIOS	0ABGA036	0ABGA036
LSI Firmware	fw1.10.00-bios6.06.06A	fw1.10.00-bios6.06.06A
Motherboard	501-7513 (RoHS compliant)	501-7514 (RoHS compliant)

TABLE 4 Software Release 1.2 Component Versions
Component Name	Sun Fire X4100 Server Version	Sun Fire X4200 Server Version
ILOM FW	Version 1.0.5, build 12029C	Version 1.0.5, build 12029C
BIOS	0ABGA034	0ABGA034
LSI Firmware	fw1.10.00-bios6.06.06A	fw1.10.00-bios6.06.06A
Motherboard	501-7513 (RoHS compliant)	501-7514 (RoHS compliant)

TABLE 5 Software Release 1.1 Component Versions
Component Name	Sun Fire X4100 Server Version	Sun Fire X4200 Server Version
ILOM FW	Version 1.0.1, build 9306	Version 1.0.1, build 9306
BIOS	0ABGA031	0ABGA031
LSI Firmware	fw1.08.01A-bios6.40.70A	fw1.08.01A-bios6.40.70A
Motherboard	501-7261	501-6974

TABLE 6 Software Release 1.0 Component Versions
Component Name	Sun Fire X4100 Server Version	Sun Fire X4200 Server Version
ILOM FW	Version 1.0, build 6169	Version 1.0, build 6169
BIOS	0ABGA022	0ABGA022
LSI Firmware	fw1.04.00-bios6.02.0A	fw1.04.00-bios6.02.0A
Motherboard	501-7261	501-6974

Software Release Special Considerations

This section describes considerations that might affect the firmware update.

RHEL5: Some Drivers Not Available (6560361)

For software release 1.4, RHEL5 drivers are not available for the following option cards:

Sun 10-GbE, 133-MHz PCI-X (X5544A-4)

Sun Dual Port 4x IB Host Channel Adapter PCI-X (X1333A-4)

Do Not Downgrade LSI Firmware Version 1.16 (6495476)

Once you update to version 1.16, downgrading the firmware to a previous version is not supported. Doing so can cause the LSI card and SCSI devices to become undetectable.

Special Considerations Regarding the ILOM Firmware 1.1.1 Update

This section describes considerations that might affect the firmware upgrade. For issues on ILOM in general, refer to the Sun Fire X4100/X4200 Servers Product Notes.

Fixed: ILOM Upgrade Might Fail BIOS Flash (6499287)

The ILOM service processor might not successfully update the BIOS version, if a previous flash upgrade has failed. If the BIOS version is not correct after ILOM flash upgrade completes, use the -f force flag on the ILOM CLI load command, to force the BIOS flash upgrade.

This issue applies to ILOM 1.1.1 and earlier.

FRU Information Appears Empty After Updating the ILOM Firmware and the BIOS (6406138)

The host CPU and DIMM FRU information shown by the service processor is provided to the service processor during each BIOS power-on-self-test (POST). Therefore, after a BIOS/ILOM upgrade, this FRU information is empty until the first host BIOS POST.

Workaround

This is expected behavior. Reset the server and allow it to complete POST during boot to repopulate the FRU lists.

Serial Console on Host System Might Stop Working After BIOS Update Until CMOS Settings Are Cleared (6489959)

After updating the system BIOS, you might need to clear CMOS settings to get serial console output from the host. This is because CMOS defaults might be changed from your existing settings in the new BIOS.

Workaround

If you cannot get serial console output, clear the CMOS settings. To clear CMOS settings, use the following commands (in this example, the default username, root, and the default password, changeme, are used):

ipmitool -U root -P changeme -H SP-IP chassis power off

ipmitool -U root -P changeme -H SP-IP chassis bootdev disk clear-cmos=yes

where SP-IP is the IP address of the service processor.

New ILOM Flash Update Layout

The ILOM 1.1.1 and above firmware provides a new, more reliable flash layout. Because of the layout changes, special steps might be required to downgrade to previous ILOM 1.0.x releases.

You might have to perform the flash downgrade to 1.0.x process twice to reformat the flash layout to the old format. If the flash downgrade through GUI, CLI, or N1 System Manager, does not succeed the first time, retry a second time to complete the process.

The new ILOM flash process only powers off the host if a new BIOS version is needed. The ILOM CLI load command provides the -f option to force update of all components. Use the following command to force updating all firmware components:

load -f tftp://tftpserver/firmware.ima

where tftpserver is a trivial file-transfer protocol (TFTP) server and firmware.ima is the name of the image file, such as, ILOM.X4100-1.1.1.ima.

User Cannot Log In to ILOM WebGUI Sometimes After Flashing New Image (6513809)

Sometimes after flashing an image on SP, the ILOM WebGUI will not allow you to log in and gives "Authentication fail" error. Clearing the cache and cookies of the Web browser enables you to log in as usual.