Sun Management Center 4.0 Version 3 Add-On Software Release Notes

This document contains release notes for Sun trademark Management Center 4.0 Version 3 add-on software for SPARC Enterprise M3000/M4000/M5000/M8000/M9000 servers. The document includes the following sections:

What’s New

Supported Platforms and Environments

Recommended Patches

Documentation

Obtaining the Add-On Software

Known Issues and Workarounds

What’s New

Requires XSCF Control Package (XCP) 1090 firmware for SPARC Enterprise M3000/M4000/M5000/M8000/M9000 servers.

Adds new properties to the System table, corresponding with new features in XCP 1090:

actualPower

actualPowerPollingInterval

exhaustAirFlow

exhaustAirFlowPollingInterval

ambientTemperature

ambientTemperaturePollingInterval

permittedPower

Adds a new property to the CMU table:

cmuType

Supported Platforms and Environments

Supported Platforms

Sun Management Center 4.0 Version 3 add-on software supports the following systems:

SPARC Enterprise M3000 servers

SPARC Enterprise M4000/M5000 servers

SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers

Supported Software

TABLE 1 lists the minimum software versions required for this release.

TABLE 1 Minimum Required Software Versions
Host	Required Software	Version
Monitored platform	XCP firmware Note - Sun Management Center add-on software updates are included in XCP firmware image updates.	1090
Monitored domain	Solaris Operating System Sun Management Center core software Sun Management Center Add-On Software for SPARC Enterprise M3000/M4000/M5000/M8000/M9000 servers	10 11/06 4.0 4.0 Version 3
For both: Server machine Workstations or common network location (for console layer)	Solaris Operating System ^[1]	8 2/04 9 9/04 10 11/06
	Sun Management Center server core software	4.0
	Sun Management Center Add-On Software for SPARC Enterprise M3000/M4000/M5000/M8000/M9000 servers	4.0 Version 3

Recommended Patches

Solaris software patches and Sun Management Center patches might be available for your platform, for the core Sun Management Center 4.0 application, and for this add-on software. The product notes for your platform and the Sun Management Center Software Release Notes might also include information about required and recommended patches.

Note - You must install all the patches required for your platform and your operating system before installing Sun Management Center 4.0 software and this add-on.

If you have a Sun service contract, you can download the patches from:

http://sunsolve.sun.com

Documentation

Sun Management Center documentation is available at:

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/sun.mgmt.ctr40

For information about this add-on software, see the Sun Management Center 4.0 Supplement for Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers: Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000/M4000/M5000/M8000/M9000 Servers (820-6019), which supplements the core Sun Management Center documentation.

Obtaining the Add-On Software

Sun Management Center software, including this Sun Management Center 4.0 Version 3 add-on software, is available for download at:

http://www.sun.com/download

For information about installing the software, refer to the Sun Management Center 4.0 Supplement for Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers: Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000/M4000/M5000/M8000/M9000 Servers.

Known Issues and Workarounds

TABLE 2 lists issues and possible workarounds for Sun Management Center software.

TABLE 2 Sun Management Center Issues and Workarounds
CR ID	Description	Workaround
6567937	Sun Management Center alarms do not appear in the Alarms tab after a successful SP failover.	Click the Reload the Alarm Table button to refresh the table and display the correct alarm state.
6750818	The physical view is not seen on the web console. This occurs for both the Domain Config reader and Platform Admin Module on all SPARC Enterprise M3000/M4000/M5000/M8000/M9000 systems.	Use the Java Sun Management Center console to see the physical view for this add-on software.
6853141	On SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers, the System table for the Platform Admin Module displays values for “System permitted power consumption” and for “System Actual Power Consumption Polling Interval.” However, these features are not supported on SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers.	These features are not supported for SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers. No workaround is required.

Documentation Updates

This section contains late-breaking information that became known after the document Sun Management Center 4.0 Supplement for Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers: Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000/M4000/M5000/M8000/M9000 Servers was published.

TABLE 3 Documentation Updates
Location	Description
Page 18, “Setting Up Security Access”
	Add the following information: All monitoring and active management available to domain operators (`dom`N`adm` groups) in the domain views tables are available to the platform administrator (`platadmn` group) in the Domain, XSB and LSB tables of the platform view. Therefore, it is not required that the platform administrator (`platadmn` group) be present in all the `dom`N`adm` groups used by the domain views. Nevertheless, you can add a platform operator user name to all `dom`N`adm` groups by increasing the maximum number of groups allowed. To Increase the Maximum Number of Allowed Groups Add the following string to the system specification file (`/etc/system`) for the Sun Management Center server host: `set ngroups_max=32` Reboot the OS on the Sun Management Center server host. Caution: Setting `ngroups_max=32` in `/etc/system` might give rise to NFS interoperability problems, as typical NFS servers only support 16 groups when using `AUTH_SYS/AUTH_UNIX`. The other NFS authentication mechanisms map “netids" to user names on the servers and can support more than 16 groups. [CR ID 6872614]
Page 19, “To Set Up Platform and Domain Views Administrative Groups”
	Step 1 includes a list of possible values for groupname. The last item in the list should be `platoper` (not `platop`). [CR ID 6868916] Step 2: Add the following Note: Note - If `ngroups_max` has been changed in `/etc/system`, make sure the user names are not added to more than the `ngroups_max` value. It is not required for a platform operator to be in all `dom`N`adm` groups, but if this is desired, it is possible to get around the 16-group limit by setting the `ngroups_max` variable in `/etc/system` to a maximum of 32. [CR ID 6872614]
Page 36, “About the Platform Administration Module”
	Add the following Note: Note - Full active platform management is possible only when using the Java Console. The Web Console allows you to monitor all elements and set actions and thresholds. [CR ID 6872614]

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