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1. 8 On SLES 11 SP1 systems the OneCommand Manager application daemon processes may require up to 30 seconds to die when attempting to kill them This will cause the stop_ocmanager script to display an error when stopping elxhbamgrd 9 On SLES 11 SP 1 system errors are displayed on the shell when the GUI attempts to access authentication features 10 DHCHAP is not supported on SLES 11 SP 1 systems The fcauthd authentication daemon is not available 11 On SLES 11 SP1 systems an unavailable in band remote OneCommand Manager host causes a 30 second window of vulnerability When an in band remote OneCommand Manager application host becomes unavailable for any reason for example a cable pull or a machine reboot there is a 30 second window of vulnerability such that FC CT commands originating from the SL11 SP1 machine to the remote host during this period will hang due to a function call that generates an ioctl to the kernel that does not return The calling process thread is thus hung This problem has been found to be due to kernel code new bsg interface and a kernel fix is in process Workaround There is no workaround at this time 12 Requirement if CEE Settings are connected to a non DCBX Switch OEM5 and later If CEE settings are required when connected to a non DCBX switch or a switch with DCBX disabled DCBX must be disabled on the OneConnect adapter to use the adapter s configured parameters If DCBX is Emulex Tech2. Previously the PXE BIOS version remained at the previous version 2 101 225 x Emulex Technical Support Phone 800 854 7112 PN P006125 01A Rev A Page 3 of 8 gt GEMULEX 11 Remote OneConnect firmware download from a big endian PPC or SPARC client_no lon the firmware validation p JD4 This resolution applies to SLES 11 SLES 10 and RHEL 5 Resolved issues specific to port status 1 Offline ports no longer report_a disabled status The OneCommand Manager application reported an offline port as disabled The port had to be connected to a switch or have a loopback plug to be reported as enabled er fails 2 The Physical Port Status of aOneConnect FCoE adapter port no longer shows Link Down on the Port Information tab if the NIC s Link Status shows Down It exhibited this behavior regardless of whether a cable was connected and or FCoE was functioning 3 The Port Disable feature works on FC adapters that don t support setting and dumping of region 17 This resolution applies to SLES 11 SLES 10 and RHEL 5 Resolved issues specific to the CLI 1 Runninga set operating mode script no longer removes the Management Mode menu in the up5 GUI 2 Disabling DCBX no longer resets priority groups and bandwidths to zero Priorities and bandwidths of all priority groups were reset to 0 if DCBX was disabled using the CLI setceeparams MAC WWPN dcbxstate 0 3 Diagnostics are enabled even if a port has a disabled status
3. gt GEMULEX Release Notes Date October 2010 Product OneCommand Manager Application for Linux Platforms Version 5 1 9 3 This document describes the resolved issues and current known issues associated with this utility build release For the latest product documentation go to www emulex com If you have any questions or require additional information contact an authorized Emulex technical representative New Features in OneCommand Manager Application Version 5 1 9 3 This release supports host grouping licensing enablement and adapter personality changes See the OneCommmand Manager Application version 5 1 User Manual for more information Resolved Issues in OneCommand Manager Application Version 5 1 9 3 1 NPIV with or without auto gen is now available 2 The FIP FCoE connect list setting when FIP is enabled is fully functional This resolution applies to SLES 10 and SLES 11 3 When an invalid non existing iSNS server is added configured via the GUI or the CLI subsequent application performance is no longer severely degraded Many commands required the OneConnect to take two minutes to either respond to or timeout causing general application performance degradation This resolution applies to SLES 11 SLES 10 and RHEL 5 Resolved issues specific to Data Center Bridging Exchange DCBX 1 Switch setting issue resolved Priority groups and FCoE iSCSI priority did not return to the switch settings when DCBX was
4. 200 10 whether or not the board link is up or the NIC is configured To update an FCoE adapter to the latest version 2 101 200 10 the board s link had to be up and the NIC had to be configured You can download firmware whether or not the NIC link is up If the FCoE adapter did have the latest firmware the firmware download operations consistently failed unless the NIC link was up Firmware downloads on an FCoE adapter no longer fail yD3 This resolution applies to SLES 11 SLES 10 and RHEL 5 Able to convert BE3 FCoE cards to iSCSI using IPL file update Remote In band FCoE firmware download for BE3 TigerShark adapters is functional If a BE3 TigerShark adapter firmware update was attempted by a remote in band FC CT OCM client the attempt failed and the client side displayed a timeout error Older FCoE drivers can now be used with the latest firmware The FCoE XMIT_SEQUENCE had changed and drivers had to be locked step with the latest firmware Configurations made with earlier firmware are retained The adapter structure had changed and configuration settings made with earlier firmware specific to LLDP DCBX PXE BIOS and Port Status was lost The OneCommand Manager application shows the correct firmware on CNA boards and the Firmware tab refreshes immediately with the correct firmware version This resolution applies to SLES 11 SLES 10 and RHEL 5 The PXE BIOS is updated when you updated to the 2 101 249 x firmware
5. If a port was disabled the CLI diagnostics showed Source HBA port is disabled Unable to start test 4 The CLI shows and allows changes to the CEE parameters on the OneConnect adapter port It does not matter what protocol is running on the port specified in the command In previous releases after 5 0 11 x you could only view and change the CEE parameters that applied to the protocol running on the port specified to hbacmd 5 The CLI allows the CEE default parameters to be set for the local adapter This resolution applies to SLES 11 SLES 10 and RHEL 5 6 The CEE parameters priorities and PG bandwidths can now be set through the CLI This resolution applies to SLES 11 SLES 10 and RHEL 5 7 iSCSI CHAP configuration is now available Previously only the iSCSI login was available This resolution applies to SLES 11 SLES 10 and RHEL 5 8 When an invalid non existing iSNS server is added configured subsequent iSCSI target discover and refresh commands are no longer intermittent Targets associated with the iSNS sometimes required a long time to appear The target portal associated with the target was sometimes duplicated showed up twice on the target s portal list This resolution applies to SLES 11 SLES 10 and RHEL 5 9 The system no longer reports non Emulex controllers system does not hang i e hbacmd listhbas did not display This resolution applies to SLES 11 and SLES 10 10 Pressing Cirl c no longer c
6. the following Run the following script from the command shell usr sbin lpfc lun_scan all Reboot the host machine after the LUN has been added at the target array Emulex Technical Support Phone 800 854 7112 PN P006125 01A Rev A Page 7 of 8 gt GEMULEX Copyright 2003 2010 Emulex All rights reserved worldwide No part of this document may be reproduced by any means or translated to any electronic medium without the prior written consent of Emulex Information furnished by Emulex is believed to be accurate and reliable However no responsibility is assumed by Emulex for its use or for any infringements of patents or other rights of third parties which may result from its use No license is granted by implication or otherwise under any patent copyright or related rights of Emulex Emulex the Emulex logo AutoPilot Installer AutoPilot Manager BlockGuard Connectivity Continuum Convergenomics Emulex Connect Emulex Secure EZPilot FibreSpy HBAnyware InSpeed LightPulse MultiPulse OneCommand OneConnect One Network One Company SBOD SLI and VEngine are trademarks of Emulex All other brand or product names referenced herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies or organizations Emulex provides this manual as is without any warranty of any kind either expressed or implied including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpos
7. 06125 01A Rev A Page 6 of 8 19 20 21 22 23 24 gt GEMULEX On SLES 11 systems installing or uninstalling the Open FCoE RPM package after the OneCommand Manager application is installed results in the removal of the OneCommand Manager application entries in the system file etc hba conf This breaks the Linux system HBA API functionality and the OneCommand Manager application client apps no longer run To recover you must re install the OneCommand Manager application This problem is found with the open fcoe 1 0 4 10 2 RPM distributed with SLES11 kernel 2 6 27 19 5 Workaround There is no workaround at this time On RHEL 5 4 x86 64 and ppc 64 systems the Red Hat 32 bit and 64 bit libhbaapi RPMs treat etc hba conf as a configuration file e f no application has modified etc hba conf this file is deleted when the Red Hat libnbaapi RPM is uninstalled e If an application has modified etc hba conf example OneCommand Manager this file is moved to etc hba conf romsave when the Red Hat libhbaapi RPM is uninstalled In either case uninstalling the 32 bit or 64 bit Red Hat libhbaapi RPMs breaks the OneCommand Manager application because it requires Emulex entries in etc hba conf Workaround If the OneCommand Manager application is installed do not uninstall the Red Hat 32 bit or 64 bit libhaapi RPM On RHEL 5 3 5 4 and 5 5 systems the core kit elxocmcore RPM and enterprise kit elxocmcore RPM will no
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9. HCHAP Re auth Interval field on the DHCHAP tab now number The OneCommand Manager application s DHCHAP status does not change on the DHCHAP tab until JD2 iSCSI CHAP configuration is now available Although the Advanced Login Options dialog box was available CHAP configuration was not This resolution applies to SLES 11 SLES 10 and RHEL 5 Resolved issues specific to Diagnostics 1 2 NO og Pp GUI no longer hangs when running diagnostics on a NIC only OneConnect adapter Running the MAC loopback diagnostic no longer causes the system to hang If the OneConnect adapter port never had a link up state after boot running the MAC loopback may have caused the system to hang All access to the adapter would have failed if this happened Diagnostics are enabled even if a port has a disabled status If a port was reported as disabled the OneCommand Manager application diagnostics were also disabled hbacmd diagnostics would show Source HBA port is disabled Unable to start test Negative testing of PHY loopback diagnostic is successful PHY loopback diagnostic is now supported in Flex 10 configurations Beaconing functions correctly External loopback now works for FCoE and iSCSI A regression problem has been resolved Resolved issues specific to firmware and bootBIOS 1 2 10 OneConnect FCoE BootBIOS management is now available You can update an FCoE adapter s firmware to the latest version 2 101
10. adapter Workaround There is no workaround at this time lf both VLAN and DCBxX are disabled the iSCSI priority configured in the CEE tab is not set in the iSCSI packets sent out by the port Enable or disable VLAN from the iSCSI Port Info tab in the OneCommand Manager application Workaround There is no workaround at this time DH CHAP authentication is not supported for OneConnect adapters There is currently no support for DH CHAP authentication for OneConnect adapters The DH CHAP tab is not displayed by the OneCommand Manager application when an FCoE node of a OneConnect port is selected in the discovery tree In the CLI the authentication commands will return an error indicating the command is not supported when the OneConnect FCoE port is specified Workaround There is no workaround at this time iSCSI InitialR2T is not supported for iSCSI OneConnect adapters Workaround There is no workaround at this time On SLES 11 systems the Open FCoE RPM package open fcoe 1 0 4 10 2 is Incompatible with the OneCommand Manager application package and must be removed from the target host machine The HBA API library that the open fcoe package installs libhbalinux so 1 causes all OneCommand Manager Application processes to crash with a segmentation violation To recover you must reinstall OneCommand Manager application Workaround There is no workaround at this time Emulex Technical Support Phone 800 854 7112 PN P0
11. auses port is busy when issued while the port is resetting JD6 Known Issues in OneCommand Manager Application Version 5 1 9 3 1 VPD is Now Required on NIC Only and iSCSI Adapters When you license an FCoE personality on an existing NIC only or iSCSI adapter you must make sure that the adapter has VPD written on it Otherwise FCoE management will not work in the OneCommand Manager application Many older adapters of these types do not have VPD Emulex Technical Support Phone 800 854 7112 PN P006125 01A Rev A Page 4 of 8 gt GEMULEX 2 OneConnect upgrade path order When upgrading UCNA driver and firmware versions it is best to upgrade both the driver and the firmware without rebooting in between to minimize the possibility of operating with mismatched versions of driver and firmware 3 CLI hbacm exe Path Prior to version 5 1 the hbacmd executable file was installed in usr sbin nbanyware directory For OneCommand Manager 5 1 this installation directory has been moved to usr sbin ocmanager However to allow scripts with hard coded paths to the hbacmd executable in the hbanyware directory to continue to run a copy of the hbacmd executable is still available in the hbanyware directory 4 Messages Appear on the Terminal during Web Launch Install Uninstall On Linux SLES11 SP1 systems when the OneCommand Mananger Web launch feature is installed or uninstalled using wsinstall and wsuninstall scripts respectively the
12. changed from enabled to disabled and re enabled 2 Disabling DCBX no longer resets priority groups and bandwidths to zero Priorities and bandwidths of all priority groups were reset to 0 if DCBX was disabled using the CLI setceeparams MAC WWPN dcbxstate 0 Resolved issues specific to Converged Enhanced Ethernet CEE 1 CEE properties now return to their switch settings if you disable and re enable DCBX If you disabled DCBX modified the priority groups and or FCoE iSCSI priority and enabled DCBX the CEE properties did not return to the switch settings 2 CEE priority groups are set properly for active and configured settings With the 2 101 355 0 firmware the CEE priority groups were not set properly in the active and configured settings Priority group 0 contained only priority O and priority group 1 contained only priority 3 No other priorities were set in the priority groups These values were seen whether or not DCBX was enabled 3 CEE priority groups can be viewed or updated on a remote host running a pre 5 0 16 x release of the OneCommand Manager application 4 CEE configuration is supported for iSCSI OneConnect adapiers Emulex Technical Support Phone 800 854 7112 PN P006125 01A Rev A Page 1 of 8 5 gt GEMULEX Caret shows in the Configure CEE dialog box Previously you could type in numbers but there was no caret You had to double click the control to see the caret This has been resolved Res
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14. es to SLES 10 Resolved issues specific to iSCSI 1 6 OneConnect iSCSI management operation for x86_64 systems is now consistent when multiple targets are logged in This resolution applies to SLES 11 SLES 10 and RHEL 5 OneConnect iSCSI management operation for i386 systems is now consistent when greater than 48 targets are logged into the OneConnect iSCSI intiator This resolution applies to SLES 11 SLES 10 and RHEL 5 OneConnect iSCSI for SLES11 systems is now available There were problems loading the iSCSI driver Setting iSCSI target login options e g authentication while logging into a target no longer causes the global iSCSI initiator login options to be changed to match the target login options after successful login This resolution applies to SLES 11 SLES 10 and RHEL 5 When an invalid non existing iSNS server is added configured subsequent iSCSI target discover and refresh commands are no longer intermittent Targets associated with the iSNS sometimes required a long time to appear The target portal associated with the target was sometimes duplicated showed up twice on the target s portal list This resolution applies to SLES 11 SLES 10 and RHEL 5 Able to convert BE3 FCoE cards to iSCSI using IPL file update Resolved issues specific to DHCHAP Emulex Technical Support Phone 800 854 7112 PN P006125 01A Rev A Page 2 of 8 gt GEMULEX The OneCommand Manager application s D
15. following messages are displayed to the terminal insserv Script jexec is broken incomplete LSB comment insserv missing Required Stop entry please add even if empty These are warning messages that do not affect the operation or installation of the Web launch feature They appear on SLES 11 SP1 specific versions of the relevant software insserv and jexec The scripts invoke this software via invocation of the standard Linux chkconfig utility typically used for daemon installations Workaround These are warning messages that do not affect the operation or installation of the Web launch feature LP9802 and LP982 host bus adapters are no longer supported 6 Newer systems may interfere with permanent changes to the adapter WWN Some CNA adapters LP21xxx models on newer systems employ techniques in the BIOS code at boot time to configure the adapter This may include the adapter WWN In such cases this may interfere with the OneCommand Manager application s ability to save permanent non volatile changes to the adapter WWN Workaround There is no workaround at this time 7 When using IET software more than 60 iSCSI targets may not be discovered When using the open source iSCSI Enterprise Target IET software package to present targets to the iscsi initiator adding target portals that contain greater than 60 targets fails the resulting target discovery operation This is due to an error in the IET target implementation
16. nical Support Phone 800 854 7112 PN P006125 01A Rev A Page 5 of 8 13 14 15 16 17 18 gt GEMULEX enabled CEE PFC and Priority Groups are ignored the adapter assumes the switch does not support these features and for FCoE adapters the FCoE priority COS is 3 The NIC driver must be installed to run the OneCommand Manager application on an FCoE adapter If the OneConnect FCoE adapter is run without the NIC driver installed many of the management functions will be unavailable The management functions that will be unavailable are 1 Firmware Download a Active and flash firmware versions b Firmware status c BIOS version d Boot code version All diagnostics including beaconing Transceiver data display Port disable Physical port link status All CEE settings Event log display CLI only FAT dumps Workaround There is no workaround at this time ONO PON Restriction in assigning DCB priorities to priority groups Although there are eight priority groups to which priorities can be assigned you will be able to assign priorities and bandwidths to only two of the priority groups To one priority group you must assign the FCoE or iSCSI priority and to the other priority group you must assign the other seven NIC priorities NOTE If you are using a DCBX enabled switch to configure the priority groups you should configure it for only two priority groups in order to work correctly with the OneConnect
17. olved issues specific to login startup boot and connection 1 2 Boot from SAN is now available on OneConnect adapters iSCSI initiator name may no longer be a null ascii string Before first time use the iSCSI initiator name was a null empty ascii string on some OneConnect adapters Operations do not fail if you change a property on the iSCSI Initiator Login Options tab or in the Advanced Options Dialog box You could not login to any target with authentication enabled or a target with non default parameters The OneCommand Manager application no longer gives an inadvertent ping failure when connecting or logging into some iSCSI target arrays This resolution applies to SLES 11 SLES 10 and RHEL 5 OneConnect adapters no longer hang during boot due to a PXE BIOS hang problem This intermittent problem applied to boards with a firmware version of 2 101 210 16 During a reboot ElxRMSrv no longer starts before the MILI daemon This resolution applies to SLES 10 and SLES11 The system no longer reports non Emulex controllers system does not hang The discovery server previously did not report any ports and the RMServer could not find any ports This resolution applies to SLES 10 The Be2net driver now loads at boot time This resolution applies to SLES 10 The Be2iscsi driver now loads at boot time This problem with the BE2iscsi driver loading seemed to depend on the kernel that was being used This resolution appli
18. t install due to a missing Libnl NetLinks library The OneCommand Core RPM requires Libni Unlike other supported operating systems RHEL 5 3 5 4 and 5 5 does not install the Libni package during a default installation Workaround Install the libn package from the RHEL 5 3 5 4 or 5 5 distribution media On RHEL 5 3 5 4 and 5 5 systems the OneCommand iSCSI SNMP daemon does not start The OneCommand iSCSI SNMP daemon does not start if libsensors so 3 is not found Workaround If the OneCommand Manager application is not installed install the Im_sensors 2 10 0 3 1 or higher RPM from the Red Hat distribution media Install OCManager If the OneCommand Manager application is installed run the stop_ocmanager script to stop the OCManager daemons Install the Im_sensors 2 10 0 3 1 or higher RPM from the Red Hat distribution media Run the start_ocmanager script to start the OCManager daemons When MILI and SNMP daemons start they trigger warning messages within SELinux for certain operations Workaround To avoid SElinux warning messages disable SELinux To Disable SElinux open a terminal and enter the following command at prompt echo 0 gt selinux enforce To Enable SElinux open a terminal and enter the following command at prompt echo 1 gt selinux enforce Newly added LUNs on a storage array may not appear on the host machine Linux operating system or the OneCommand Manager application Workaround Do one of
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