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Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 36 Product Notes for Firmware Version 2.0 |
1. Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 36 Product Notes
Hardware Information and Issues
Service an Undervoltage Condition
Software Information and Issues
Main Board, Management Controller, and Chassis Serial Numbers
Firmware Update Considerations
Documentation Information and Issues
smpartition Command Guidelines
The switch documentation describes how to retrieve the chassis serial number using the showfruinfo command or the /SYS/MB Oracle ILOM target. These methods actually display the serial number of the main board and the management controller respectively, and not the switch chassis. The switch chassis serial number is provided on the pull-out tab on the left side front of the switch chassis, adjacent to power supply 0.
When upgrading the management controller firmware, the procedure uses the variables x, y, z, and w in filename strings to identify the version number. For this release of the firmware, 2.0.8-1, the values are as follows:
x is 2
y is 0
z is 8
w is 1
The following time zones are only supported in firmware versions 1.3.4, 2.0.7-2, and 2.0.8-1. If you upgrade or downgrade to a firmware version other than 1.3.4, 2.0.7-2, or 2.0.8-1 you must set an alternative time zone.
America/Argentina/Salta
America/Argentina/San_Luis
America/Bahia_Banderas
America/Kralendijk
America/Lower_Princes
America/Matamoros
America/Metlakatla
America/North_Dakota/Beulah
America/Ojinaga
America/Santa_Isabel
America/Santarem
America/Sitka
Antarctica/Macquarie
Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh
Asia/Kathmandu
Asia/Kolkata
Asia/Novokuznetsk
Pacific/Chuuk
Pacific/Pohnpei
If you are going to downgrade the firmware to a version earlier than 2.0, you must remove user partitions and depopulate the Subnet Manager nodes list. Refer to Switch Administration, removing partitions for firmware downgrade.
If you are going to downgrade from firmware 2.0.x to 1.3.4_1 or earlier, you might see these type of messages in the /var/log/message file after the downgrade:
lda: Unknown config parameter: ErrLogCount=100; .
lda: Unknown config parameter: ErrLogTimeInterval=100; .
The ErrLogCount and ErrLogTimeInterval configuration parameters introduced in firmware 2.0.x are unknown to firmware version 1.3.4-1 and earlier LDAs. The LDA logs these messages and ignores them from there on. The messages appear once per LDA startup and are harmless.
If you later upgrade from firmware 1.3.4-1 to 2.0.x and the ErrLogCount and ErrLogTimeInterval configuration parameters are absent, the 2.0.x LDA uses the compiled default values. Consequently, no LDA messages regarding these configuration parameters are recorded.
To allow communication fail-over between HCAs belonging to the same operating system instance, the HCA ports must be members of the same partition and have identical membership type (full or limited).
Having both full and limited port memberships within a partition for the same operating system instance creates a configuration instability that might cause subtle communication problems.
It is mandatory to specify the value for the email_custom_sender property of an email alert rule. It does not use the custom_sender property of the /SP/clients/smtp target.
Typing help all within either the /SYS/Switch_Diag or /SYS/Fabric_Mgmt restricted Linux shells lists the commands available to those shells.
In the output, the checkguidfilesftree command is listed, however, the command is not supported.
Conversely, the fdconfig command is not listed in the output, but is supported by the /SYS/Fabric_Mgmt restricted Linux shell.