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Sun N1 System Manager 1.3.3 Release Notes

Firmware Update Does Not Work on a Management Server Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Update 5 (6510838)

N1 System Manager does not automatically enable the FTP daemon on Red Hat Linux, which is required to update firmware to ALOM based servers.

Error Message:


Job ID:   15
Date:     2007-01-04T12:39:50+0000
Type:     Load Firmware
Status:   Error (2007-01-04T12:40:03+0000)
Command:  load server 192.168.2.12 firmware alom-1.6.1-main
Owner:    root
Errors:   1
Warnings: 0

Steps
ID     Type             Start                         Completion                       Result
1      Acquire Host     2007-01-04T12:39:51+0000      2007-01-04T12:39:51+0000         Completed
2      Execute Java     2007-01-04T12:39:51+0000      2007-01-04T12:39:51+0000         Completed
3      Acquire Host     2007-01-04T12:39:53+0000      2007-01-04T12:39:53+0000         Completed
4      Execute Java     2007-01-04T12:39:53+0000      2007-01-04T12:40:02+0000         Error 1

Errors
Error 1:
Description: Error during firmware deployment:Cannot update fw: *******

Failed to open ftp connection: Check ip address, pathname, username, and password

Results
Result 1:
Server:   192.168.2.12
Status:   -3
Message:  An exception occurred trying to update 192.168.2.12.

Workaround: Enable the FTP daemon.

# chkconfig vsftpd --level 5 on

# chkconfig vsftpd --level 3 on

# service vsftpd start