This page contains a brief overview of the changes introduced in each
release of Partition Manager v2. Information is presented in reverse
chronological order (most recent changes first).
Partition Manager v2.02.03 (HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack
for Linux v1.2)
Partition Manager for Linux now is available for systems running SuSE Linux
Enterprise Server 10.
B.12.02.02.02 (HP-UX 11i v1 December 2006 Release)
This release of Partition Manager includes the following enhancements.
Partition Manager for HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) now supports
servers based on the HP sx2000 chipset, including HP Superdome (SD16B,
SD32B, and SD64B models), rx8640, and rx7640.
Partition Manager includes the ability to enable
and disable Hyper-Threading for nPartitions whose cells have
processors that are Hyper-Threading capable (such as
dual-core Intel® Itanium® 2 processors).
Partition Manager for HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) now provides
integration with the HP-UX Peripheral Device Tool.
When an I/O slot action is selected from the actions menu,
Partition Manager will attempt
to launch the HP-UX Peripheral Device Tool
(pdweb) to perform the action. This tool
is only available on nPartitions running HP-UX
11i v1 (B.11.11) December 2006, 11i v2 (B.11.23), or later. If HP-UX
Peripheral Device Tool is
not running on the selected nPartition, and it is not configured to start on demand,
Partition Manager cannot perform any actions on I/O slots or I/O cards.
Partition Manager A.2.02.01 (HP Virtual Server Environment Release)
This release of Partition Manager is integrated with the HP Virtual
Server Environment (VSE) management tools for HP SIM.
Partition Manager now includes the ability to enable
and disable Hyper-Threading for nPartitions whose cells have
processors that are Hyper-Threading capable (such as
dual-core Intel® Itanium® 2 processors).
All log messages are written to the log file in English. This
avoids the situation where question marks were written to the log
file for some non-English languages.
Selecting
Tools
Refresh Data
works properly in the cell scope and I/O chassis scope.
All potential cross-site scripting vulnerabilities have been
removed.
Selecting
Complex
Clear All LEDs
reports detailed failure information if any LEDs are not
able to be turned off.
Clicking the
[
OK
]
button on an error message page would produce a null pointer
exception in some cases. This has been fixed.
Selecting
Cell
Assign Cell(s)
does not generate an exception when an empty cell slot is
selected for assignment.
Other defect fixes have been incorporated into this release.
When Partition Manager is logged on to an nPartition running
Microsoft® Windows®, it can display and monitor the nPartition and complex,
but it may report SSH errors when attempting to run commands that
make changes to the nPartition or complex.
To resolve this issue, HP recommends that you configure the
Microsoft® Windows® system (the managed node) to operate with this release
of Partition Manager by using the following procedure:
Add an account named
root
to the Administrators group on the managed node.
Install OpenSSH Services for HP Systems Insight Manager on
the managed node. You can download the install application
from the following Web site:
http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/22546.html
From the CMS, run the following command:
mxagentconfig -a -n
addr
-u root -p
passwd
where
addr
is the host name or IP address of the managed node, and
passwd
is the password for the
root account on the managed node.
You can avoid this issue by selecting
Tools
Switch Complexes
to either log on to the service processor or to log on to an
nPartition in the complex as a WBEM user.
Partition Manager v2.1.3 (Microsoft® Windows® Release)
This release of Partition Manager includes the ability to enable
and disable Hyper-Threading for nPartitions whose cells have
processors that are Hyper-Threading-capable (such as
dual-core Intel® Itanium® 2 processors).
Partition Manager supports Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
installations. While Partition Manager still supports
installations with J2SE Development Kit (JDK), JDK is not required
if JRE is installed.
When installing the HP Servlet Container component from the
SmartSetup CD, you can optionally install JRE with the component
installation.
All log messages are written to the log file in English. This
avoids the situation where question marks were written to the log
file for some non-English languages.
The
Tools
Refresh Data
action works properly in the cell scope and I/O chassis scope.
All potential cross-site scripting vulnerabilities have been
removed.
The
Complex
Clear All LEDs
action reports detailed failure information if any LEDs are not
able to be turned off.
Clicking the
[
OK
]
button on an error message page would produce a null pointer
exception in some cases. This has been fixed.
The
Cell
Assign Cell(s)
action does not generate an exception when an empty cell slot is
selected for assignment.
Other defect fixes have been incorporated into this release.
B.23.02.01.03 (HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006 Update)
Bug fixes and other improvements have been incorporated in this
release.
Partition Manager v2.01.03 (HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack
for Linux v1.0)
This release of Partition Manager for Linux includes integration
with the HP-UX Peripheral Device Tool Web interface (pdweb) for
managing I/O slots and cards, when managing an nPartition running
HP-UX with pdweb installed. This pdweb integration is not provided
when managing nPartitions running Linux, Windows, or HP OpenVMS I64.
To avoid intermittent proxy errors due to tomcat, the Partition
Manager v2.01.03 installation process moves the
commons-logging.jar
file from the
/opt/hp/hpsmh/tomcat/webapps/parmgr/WEB-INF/lib/
directory to the
/opt/hp/hpsmh/tomcat/common/lib/
directory. This is a temporary solution until this issue is resolved
in a future release.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 2
.
This section describes changes and known limitations with this
release of the HP nPartitions Commands and nPartition Provider
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 2.
The cimserver configuration files such as server.pem (digital
certificate file), client.pem (Shared Authentication Store
file), and others now are stored in the /etc/Pegasus/
directory. These files are used in enabling remote
administration; for details, see the parstatus (1) manpage
Dependencies section
The /etc/Pegasus/access.conf file specifies the users who are
allowed to send WBEM requests to cimserver. By default,
access.conf is configured to allow only the pegasus user to
send remote requests to cimserver, and by default it allows
only the root and pegasus users to send local requests.
Only the parstatus and fruled commands are supported for
remote access by default. To enable remote access of all
nPartition Commands, you must allow the root user to send
remote requests.
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 release includes
Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux). For the HP nPartition
Commands for Linux to work, SELinux either must be disabled or
put in permissive mode. The nPartition Commands for Linux will
not work when SELinux is in enforcing mode.
To put SELinux in permissive mode, use the setenforce 0
command.
To disable SELinux, modify the file /etc/selinux/config.
For details, see setenforce (1).
A.02.02.00 (HP Virtual Server Environment Release)
This release of Partition Manager is integrated with the HP
Virtual Server Environment (VSE) management tools for HP Systems
Insight Manager (SIM).
Both the Partition Manager user interface and online help are
available in the following languages: English, German, Spanish,
French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and
Traditional Chinese.
Partition Manager supports browser language settings by ignoring
region codes, except for Chinese. For example, all varieties of
Spanish (es, es-ar, es-es, es-mx, and others) resolve to Spanish
(es). For Chinese language support, both zh and zh-cn resolve to
Simplified Chinese (zh-cn), and both zh-hk and zh-tw resolve to
Traditional Chinese (zh-tw).
For browser language settings not supported by Partition Manager,
the English user interface and online help is displayed.
When in the
cell scope
or
I/O chassis scope
, selecting the
Tools
Refresh Data
action results in the "Loading Complex Information..." screen
displaying continuously. To avoid this problem, instead click the
[
Refresh
]
button to refresh the data that is displayed. If you encounter
this problem, use the
“
Back
”
button in your Web browser to return to the scope view and click
the
[
Refresh
]
button to refresh the data.
When using the
Tools
Switch Complexes
action to connect to a remote nPartition using WBEM, entering an
invalid password can occasionally result in an "HTTP Status 500"
error. If you encounter this error, use the
“
Back
”
button in your Web browser to return to the Switch Complexes
screen and enter a valid user name and password.
HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) 5.
x
works only with the following releases of Partition Manager or
later:
HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) May 2005 release: Partition Manager
version B.11.23.02.00.04
HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) Fall 2005 release: Partition Manager
version B.11.11.02.00.05
You must upgrade to one of these versions of Partition Manager, or
later, to use Partition Manager with SIM 5.
x
.
When Partition Manager is logged on to an nPartition running
Microsoft® Windows®, it can display and monitor the nPartition and complex,
but it may report SSH errors when attempting to run commands that
make changes to the nPartition or complex.
To resolve this issue, HP recommends that you configure the
Microsoft® Windows® system (the managed node) to operate with this release
of Partition Manager by using the following procedure:
Add an account named
“
root
”
to the Administrators group on the managed node.
Install OpenSSH Services for HP Systems Insight Manager on
the managed node. You can download the install application
from the following Web site:
http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/22546.html
From the CMS, run the following command:
mxagentconfig -a -n
addr
-u root -p
passwd
where
addr
is the host name or IP address of the managed node, and
passwd
is the password for the
root
account on the managed node.
You can avoid this issue by using the
Tools
Switch Complexes
action to either log on to the service processor, or log on to an
nPartition in the complex as a WBEM user.
Errata
The English online help for the HP Virtual Server Environment
release includes updates and additions not available in other
languages.
Partition Manager v2.1.0 (Microsoft® Windows® Release)
With this release, Partition Manager v2 can be run on systems running
Microsoft® Windows® (Windows 2000 SP3 or better, including Windows Server 2003,
64-bit edition).
In addition to the Partition Manager v2 features previously released
for HP-UX, this release includes the following enhancements.
This release of Partition Manager for Microsoft® Windows® adds support for
servers based on the HP sx2000 chipset, including HP Superdome (SD16B,
SD32B, and SD64B models), rx8640, and rx7640.
B.23.02.01.02 (HP-UX 11i v2 December 2005 Update)
This release of Partition Manager adds support for servers based
on the HP sx2000 chipset, including HP Superdome (SD16B, SD32B,
and SD64B models), rx8640, and rx7640.
Partition Manager under Systems Management Homepage (SMH) has
improved integration with the HP-UX Peripheral Device Tool Web
interface (pdweb) for managing I/O slots and cards.
Under both HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) and SMH, the links
to nPartition tools have been renamed but provide access to the
same features of Partition Manager.
Under HP SIM, the location where Partition Manager is launched
has changed to Configure--> Partition Management.
Additional bug fixes have also been incorporated in this
release.
Compatibility
The following are known compatibility issues related to using the
Partition Manager interface to the HP-UX Peripheral Device Tool for
the December 2005 release.
There is no SMH banner when pdweb is called from Partition
Manager, so to logout of pdweb you must close the browser
window. Click the "X" button on the browser window to close it,
or if available click the "Done" button to close the window.
There is a limitation to accessing pdweb when managing an
nPartition running the HP-UX 11i v2 December 2005 release and
using a release of Partition Manager prior to December 2005.
The pre-December 2005 Partition Manager attempts to access pdweb
using ports 1110/1188 and is not aware of SMH port 2301. As a
result, Partition Manager displays a message indicating to
manually start pdweb.
Because pdweb uses port 2301/2381, the pre-December 2005
Partition Manager will not access it, so manually starting pdweb
does not resolve the issue.
To resolve this issue, upgrade to the Partition Manager December
2005 release.
There is a limitation when using the Partition Manager December
2005 release to manage an nPartition that is running either the
HP-UX 11i v2 May 2005 release or the HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004
release and is not running pdweb.
Partition Manager first attempts to access pdweb using ports
1110/1188 and if it is not running it then attempts ports
2301/2381. In most cases SMH is listening on port 2301 and so
Partition Manager forwards the request to SMH, but the May 2005
and September 2004 releases of SMH are not integrated with pdweb
and instead generate a "page not found" error.
To resolve this issue, upgrade to the HP-UX 11i v2 December 2005
release.
B.11.11.02.00.05 (HP-UX 11i v1 Fall 2005 Update)
Partition Manager now runs as an application under HP System
Management Homepage. This has the following effects on Partition
Manager installation and operation.
The location of installed files has changed.
Authentication of user identities is now provided by HP System
Management Homepage instead of HP Servicecontrol Manager.
Partition Manager can now be launched from within HP System
Management Homepage.
The parmgr command will automatically start HP System Management
Homepage if it is not already running.
The
-s
option to the
parmgr
command is now obsolete.
If the parmgr command is run by a user with Administrator
(root) privileges, the
-b
option can be used to bypass the authentication step under HP
System Management Homepage.
Additional bug fixes have also been incorporated in this release,
including improved support for HP Superdome SD16000 servers.
Errata
The following errors exist in the Japanese version of the
parmgr
(
1M
)
manpage.
The
-s
option is no longer supported.
The
-b
option can be used to bypass the authentication step under HP
System Management Homepage, provided that you are already logged
in with Administrator
(root) permissions.
The procedures for managing SSL certificates have changed. Refer
to the
Managing SSL certificates
help topic for details.
B.11.23.02.00.04 (HP-UX 11i v2 May 2005 Update)
Partition Manager now runs as an application under HP System
Management Homepage. This has the following effects on Partition
Manager installation and operation.
The location of installed files has changed.
Authentication of user identities is now provided by HP System
Management Homepage instead of HP Servicecontrol Manager.
Partition Manager can now be launched from within HP System
Management Homepage.
The parmgr command will automatically start HP System Management
Homepage if it is not already running.
The
-s
option to the
parmgr
command is now obsolete.
If the parmgr command is run by a user with Administrator
(root) privileges, the
-b
option can be used to bypass the authentication step under HP
System Management Homepage.
Additional bug fixes have also been incorporated in this release.
Errata
The following errors exist in the Japanese version of the
parmgr
(
1M
)
manpage.
The
-s
option is no longer supported.
The
-b
option can be used to bypass the authentication step under HP
System Management Homepage, provided that you are already logged
in with Administrator
(root) permissions.
The procedures for managing SSL certificates have changed. Refer
to the
Managing SSL certificates
help topic for details.
Partition Manager v2.0.4 (Microsoft® Windows® Release)
With this release, Partition Manager v2 can be run on systems running
Microsoft® Windows® (Windows 2000 SP3 or better, including Windows Server 2003,
64-bit edition).
In addition to the Partition Manager v2 features previously released
for HP-UX, this release includes the following enhancements.
Partition Manager now runs as an application under HP System Management Homepage.
Several minor improvements were made in managing nPartitions
running Microsoft® Windows®.
B.11.11.02.00.03 (HP-UX 11i v1 December 2004 Update)
With this release, Partition Manager v2.0 replaces Partition Manager
v1.0 on HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11).
Partition Manager v2.0 offers several significant improvements over
Partition Manager v1.0, including a new, more graphical user interface
and configuration of nPartitions on remote complexes. This release
allows you to use the same version of Partition Manager on systems
running either HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) or HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23).
B.11.23.02.00.03 (HP-UX 11i v2 Fall 2004 Update)
The previous release of Partition Manager v2 ran on
Itanium
®-based systems
only. This release runs on both PA-RISC and
Itanium
®-based systems.
Partition Manager can now interact with the nPartition Provider using
WBEM
version 2.0. Under WBEM 2.0, the location of the SSL certificate store
on the CIM Server has changed. Instructions for managing SSL
certificates have been modified accordingly. For details, refer to
managing SSL certificates
.
Partition Manager now displays an identifying banner when Partition
Manager is launched outside of HP Servicecontrol Manager, similar to the banner
displayed when Partition Manager is launched from within HP Servicecontrol Manager.
In addition, several minor defects were fixed to improve the overall
quality of the product.
Summary of Defect Fixes in Release B.11.23.02.00.03
Improvements were made to the high availability checks in the
Create nPartition
and
Modify nPartition
actions.
Under certain circumstances, the initial Partition Manager URL
could be incorrectly formed, resulting in a "HTTP Status 404"
message at startup.
When launched from the command line on systems with HP Systems Insight Manager
installed, and in certain other circumstances, the parmgr
command failed with the message:
ERROR: The command to start the server succeeded, but the
server is not listening on port 50000.
A null pointer exception was displayed when
CLM
configuration was attempted on an nPartition that includes an
empty cell.
Improvements were made to the way that Partition Manager
recovers from the use of the browser's
“
Back
”
button.
Under certain circumstances, the
Modify nPartition
action failed with an internal error, causing Partition Manager
to fail to return to the original view from which the action was
entered.
I/O chassis
are now displayed within
cabinets
in the same order that they appear physically in the cabinet.
The
Unassign Cells
action was enabled even if cells from different nPartitions were
selected.
Pop-up tool tips have been improved to provide more information
about the status of objects and the reason that actions are
disabled.
Powered-off
cells
attached to an I/O chassis were displayed as not being
core cell
capable, even though Partition Manager cannot tell if the
powered-off cell has
core I/O
. This field will now show
“
?
”
for powered-off cells.
Powered-off I/O chassis were displayed as having
“
0
”
total I/O slots,
“
0
”
empty I/O slots, and
“
0
”
occupied I/O slots. These fields will now show
“
?
”
for powered-off I/O chassis.
The
Show Complex Details
action showed the amount of allocated CLM in megabytes, even
though the units were listed as gigabytes. This value is now
shown in gigabytes.
When connected to an nPartition Provider running on a remote
nPartition, Partition Manager displayed the host operating
system information incorrectly. The information displayed was
for the host running Partition Manager, rather than the
nPartition being managed.
B.11.23.02.00.02 (HP-UX 11i v2 March 2004 Update)
Several minor defects were fixed to improve the overall quality of the
product. In addition, the following functionality changes were made.
At startup, Partition Manager will check the complex for possible
configuration problems. If potential problems are found, the
Analyze Complex Health
action will be displayed before proceeding to the initial view.
By default, Partition Manager now validates SSL certificates from
the CIM server. This incorporates the security fix included in the
B.11.23.02.00.01 update. Certificate validation can be disabled if
SSL security is not important in your environment.
For more information, refer to
the CIM server
and
managing SSL certificates
.
B.11.23.02.00.01 (Web Download Only)
This release was made available to fix a security issue identified in
HP Security Bulletin SSRT3636 (document id: HPSBUX0311-296). In the
previous release, Partition Manager did not validate SSL certificates
sent from the CIM server. This release changed the default Partition
Manager behavior to validate SSL certificates. Certificate validation
can be disabled if SSL security is not important in your environment.
For more information, refer to
the CIM server
and
managing SSL certificates
.
The security bulletin is available on the
IT Resource Center (ITRC)
.
B.11.23.01.00 (HP-UX 11i v2 Initial Release)
This was the initial release of Partition Manager v2, for HP-UX 11i
v2 (B.11.23). This was the first Partition Manager release for
Itanium
®-based systems
, and provided a new, more graphical user interface, support for
cell local memory (
CLM
)
, and configuration of
nPartitions
on remote
complexes
.
Partition Manager v1.0
An earlier version of Partition Manager is available for PA-RISC
systems running HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11). It can be downloaded from
software depot
.
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