Release 2.4.8.0.2 Features

• Systems running Oracle Linux 6 will not be able to update the firmware of Intel^® network cards with this version of Oracle Hardware Management Pack. This is due to a limitation of Intel's Non-Volatile Update Utility (used by fwupdate). A ticket has been filed with Intel Premier Support.

  To update firmware of Intel network cards in the system, you must be running at least Oracle Linux 7. If you are running Oracle Linux 6 and are unable to upgrade to a later version of Oracle Linux, you have the option of creating a bootable USB image that includes Oracle Linux 7 and this version of Oracle Hardware Management Pack. For details, see Creating a Bootable Thumb Drive Containing Oracle Hardware Management Pack in Oracle Hardware Management Pack 2.4 Installation Guide.

• Beginning with the next release of Oracle Hardware Management Pack, support for installing Oracle Hardware Management Pack using the Installer will be removed. You will still be able to install Oracle Hardware Management Pack components manually, as described in the Oracle Hardware Management Pack 2.4 Installation Guide.

• In previous versions, when using the fwupdate command to update the firmware of a device, associated plugins are loaded and discovery is run for all devices in the system. This can increase execution time as devices that are not being updated do not require additional plugins to be loaded.

  In this version, if you specify a firmware metadata file in the fwupdate command line, only plugins associated with devices that are described in the metadata file are loaded during discovery.

  This will improve the cycle time for fwupdate list and update actions.

• When using the fwupdate command with the -x option to specify a metadata file, the devices discovered might change because the "software_type" specified in the metadata file might limit which devices are discovered. This might cause the device ID to change when specifying a metadata file with -x option.