Elxflash Offline/Online Utilities Release Notes
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1. for the following commands e s silent mode to mute all output e fo use the flash executable on supported UNCAs e i lt image_dir gt specifies the base directory where the firmware and boot directories are located 2 Provides interoperability support for CentOS 5 6 x86 and x64 and CentOS 6 0 x86 and x64 for the Offline and Online Adapter Management Utilities Elxflash Offline Online Utilities Release Notes 1 P007622 01B Rev A gt G EMULEX Known Issues Linux Offline Online and Windows Offline Known Issues These issue are applicable to the Linux ElxflashOffline ElxflashOnline kits and the Window ElxflashOffline kit unless stated otherwise 1 An incorrect Vital Product Data VPD serial number causes the Elxflash utilities to mis identify OneConnect OCe10102 and OCe11102 FCoE UCNAs If the Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE UCNA VPD serial number does not match the serial number reported by the MILI daemon Elxflash offline online utilities may misidentify the OneConnect OCe10102 or OCe11102 FCoE UCNA as an OCe10102 or OCe11102 Internet Small Computer Serial Interface iSCSI UCNA Workaround Confirm that the OCe10102 or OCe11102 FCoE UCNA s VPD serial number matches the serial number reported by the MILI daemon 2 When using the fwmatrix txt file the Elxflash utilities use the last matching entry of the UCNA HBA being evaluated If there are multiple entries the Elxflash utilities use the last matching entry2. gt S EMULEX Elxflash Offline Online Utilities Release Notes Versions Linux ElxflashOffline Kit Version 6 0 19 1 including e Linux ElxflashOffline Version 6 0 19 1 e Linux ElxflashOffline for NIC only Version 6 0 19 1 e LinLpCfg Version 6 0 19 1 Linux ElxflashOnline Kit Version 6 0 19 1 Windows ElxflashOffline Kit Version 6 0 19 1 including e Windows ElxflashOffline Version 6 0 19 1 e WinLpCfg Version 6 0 19 1 Windows ElxflashOnline Kit Version 6 0 19 1 Date May 2012 Purpose and Contact Information These release notes describe the resolved issues known issues and technical tips associated with the Elxflash offline online utilities for Linux and Windows abbreviated to Elxflash utilities in this document These command line utilities are Emulex programs that allow you to configure and manage Emulex LightPulse host bus adapters HBAs and OneConnect Universal Converged Network Adapters UCNAs For information about these utilities and their supported platforms see the Emulex Elxflash Offline Online Utilities Version 6 0 User Manual For the latest product documentation go to www Emulex com If you have questions or require additional information contact an authorized Emulex technical support representative at tech support emulex com 800 854 7112 US Canada toll free 1 714 885 3402 US International or 44 1189 772929 Europe Middle East and Africa Resolved Issues 1 Provides support
3. and reliable at the time of publication Emulex assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions Emulex reserves the right to make changes or corrections without notice This report is the property of Emulex and may not be duplicated without permission from the Company Elxflash Offline Online Utilities Release Notes 7 P007622 01B Rev A
4. e system is using a OneConnect UCNA Ethernet interface as the default gateway Workaround Emulex recommends using local installations However if the remote system has a non OneConnect UCNA Ethernet interface verify that this interface is being used as the default gateway prior to running the Elxflash Offline installation script 3 For Linux ElxflashOffline and LinLpCfg after a Network Communications Services Interface NCSI download the system must be rebooted This is expected behavior The system must be rebooted after an NCSI download Elxflash Offline Online Utilities Release Notes 4 P007622 01B Rev A gt EMULEX 4 For LinLpCfg when issuing a UCNA firmware download a file path with spaces is not allowed Workaround The LinLpCfg utility currently includes a workaround that prevents a UCNA firmware download from using a path to a file that includes spaces 5 For NIC only Linux ElxflashOffline only OneConnect UCNAs are supported and only Ethernet functions are displayed This NIC only utility does not support LightPulse HBAs and does not display iSCSI or FCoE functions This is expected behavior Workaround None Linux Only Online Only Known Issues These issues are applicable to the Linux ElxflashOnline kit unless stated otherwise 1 Elxflash reports the FCoE firmware version as N A when using an inbox be2net driver This also causes FCoE functions to be skipped during a firmware download This is expec
5. es are applicable to the Linux ElxflashOffline kit and the Linux Elxflash Online kit unless stated otherwise 1 The iSCSI or Ethernet NIC functions are not displayed when an inbox be2net driver is used This is expected behavior Workaround Use an out of box be2net drivers 2 Using an inbox be2net driver causes the MILI daemon to be unavailable As a result the following occurs Elxflash will not report iSCSI or NIC functions and FCoE CNA firmware downloads fail This is caused by the underlying utilities HBACMD LpCfg not reporting iSCSI and NIC functions because the MILI daemon is unavailable This is expected behavior Workaround Use an out of box driver Linux Only Offline Only Known Issues These issues are applicable to the Linux ElxflashOffline kit unless stated otherwise 1 The LinLpCfg rpm does not install with RHEL 5 6 or later versions due to a missing library causing the Linux ElxflashOffline kit installation to fail The LinLpCfg rpm does not install due to a missing libnl Net Links library Unlike other supported operating systems RHEL 5 6 or later versions does not install the libnl library during a default installation Workaround Install the libnl library from the RHEL 5 6 or later versions distribution media 2 Remote installation may fail when using the OneConnect UCNA Ethernet interface as the default gateway During a remote installation the shell may freeze and installation may fail if the remot
6. hOffline kit when the MILI daemon is not running these utilities are unable to report iSCSI and Ethernet Network Interface Card NIC functions which also causes UCNA firmware downloads to fail This is expected behavior Verify that the MILI daemon is running before running these Elxflash utilities Workaround None 2 For Linux ElxflashOffline LinLpCfg and the Windows ElxflashOffline kit the loopback lo interface IP address must be 127 0 0 1 for the MILI daemon to start Workaround Configure the lo interface IP address to 127 0 0 1 3 For LinLpCfg and WinLpCfg the displayed version may not match with some UCNA firmware and applications On OCe10102 FCoE UCNAs firmware on FCoE and Ethernet functions are reported in a 2 70x xxx xx format while OCe10102 iSCSI firmware is identified in a 2 10x xxx xxx format On OCe11102 FCoE UCNAs firmware on FCoE and Ethernet functions are reported in a 3 70x xxx xx format while OCe11102 iSCSI firmware is identified in a 3 10x xxx xxx format The number 7 indicates that an FCoE initial program load IPL is installed on the UCNA The displayed version is reported by the MILI daemon and is expected behavior Workaround None 4 For LinLpCfg and WinLpCfg the DmaTest command is only supported on OneConnect UCNAs Workaround None Elxflash Offline Online Utilities Release Notes 3 P007622 01B Rev A gt EMULEX Linux Only Offline Online Known Issues These issu
7. only This is expected behavior Verify that the fwmatrix txt file does not have duplicate entries 3 When using an inbox be2net driver some fields are reported as N A Not Applicable on UCNAs For the Linux ElxflashOffline utility When using an inbox be2net driver NIC and iSCSI functions are not available For FCoE this utility is expected to report certain fields as N A Workaround This utility requires out of box be2net and be2iscsi drivers For the Linux ElxflashOffline for NIC only utility On RHEL 5 5 and SLES 10 4 OCe11100 UCNAs are not supported by the inbox driver This utility reports certain fields as N A Workaround e For RHEL 5 5 use the driver update package DUP version 4 0 359 0 e For SLES 10 SP4 use the driver update disk DUD with be2net driver 4 0 359 0 For the Windows ElxflashOffline kit WinPE For NIC an inbox driver is not available and NIC and iSCSI functions are not available For FCoE this utility is expected to report certain fields as N A Workaround Use the Emulex installer to install the driver and applications components on WinPE Linux and Windows Offline Only Known Issues Elxflash Offline Online Utilities Release Notes 2 P007622 01B Rev A gt EMULEX Linux and Windows Offline Only Known Issues These issue are applicable to the Linux and Windows ElxflashOffline kit unless stated otherwise 1 For Linux ElxflashOffline LinLpCfg and the Windows Elxflas
8. ted behavior Workaround Use an out of box driver Windows Only Offline Known Issues These issues are applicable to the Windows ElxflashOffline kit 1 The MILI device does not start if the wpeinit application is disabled at boot up Workaround Do not disable the wpeinit application since it is required for the MILI daemon to start 2 The silent mode q2 does not work correctly on WinPE3 1 The silent option q2 does not work correctly on WinPE3 1 As a result the Ethernet iSCSI and FC drivers may not load during installation Note The non interactive mode q1 still works correctly Workaround None Elxflash Offline Online Utilities Release Notes 5 P007622 01B Rev A gt G EMULEX Offline and Online Adapter Management Utilities Manual Known Issues These issues are applicable to the Offline and Online Adapter Management Utilities Manual 1 There is an error with the intloopback and extloopback code samples The following code samples for intloopback and extloopback are incorrect intloopback n all extloopback n all Workaround Replace the code line in the manual with the instances of intloopback or extloopback that would be encompassed by n all For instance intloopback n all r 10 o 1 should be replaced by intloopback n 1 r 10 o 1 intloopback n 2 r 10 o 1 and extloopback n all r 40 o 3 should be replaced by extloopback n 1 r 40 o 3 extloopback n 2 r 40 o 3 2 The e
9. wing return codes have been added e 8 ERROR_NOT_ADMIN_USER Returned when the user attempting to run the executable is not an administrator Windows or root Linux e 9 ERROR UNSUPPORTED_OS Reserved e 10 ERROR UNSUPPORTED_ARCH Reserved e 11 GOOD_ALL_UPGRADES_OK_SKIPPED_UNSUP_OC10 An unsupported OCe10 UCNA was discovered but all downloads to the other UCNA HBAs succeeded e 12 GOOD_NO_UPDATES_NEEDED_SKIPPED_UNSUP_OC10 An unsupported OCe10 UCNA was discovered but no updates were needed on the other UCNA HBAs e 13 ERROR_ALL_UPGRADES_FAILED_SKIPPED_UNSUP_OC10 An unsupported OCe10 UCNA was discovered and all downloads to the other UCNA HBAs failed e 14 ERROR SOME UPGRADES _FAILED_SKIPPED_UNSUP_OC10 An unsupported OCe10 UCNA was discovered and some downloads to the other UCNA HBAs failed e 15 ERROR_NO_SUPPORTED_HBA_SKIPPED_UNSUP_OC10 An unsupported OCe10 UCNA was discovered but no HBA UCNAs were discovered e 16 GOOD_NO_UPGRADES_AVAILABLE_SKIPPED_UNSUP_OC10 An unsupported OCe10 UCNA was discovered but no applicable FW BC images where found for supported HBA UCNAs Copyright 2012 Emulex All rights reserved worldwide This document refers to various companies and products by their trade names In most if not all cases their respective companies claim these designations as trademarks or registered trademarks This information is provided for reference only Although this information is believed to be accurate
10. xtloopback intloopback and pciloopback commands require additional explanation for the o 3 option When the o 3 option is used lpcfg ignores up to 3 errors during an adapter test before continuing to the next adapter Since the extloopback intloopback and pciloopback commands do not support testing all installed adapters the o 3 option applies to running linlpcfg with the script command The o 3 option instructs lpcfg to ignore errors and continue script execution Technical Tip 1 The following kit names have changed e The Offline Adapter Management Utility kit name for Linux has changed from elxflashOffline lt platforms gt lt version gt lt rel gt tgz to elxflashOffline linux lt version gt lt rel gt tgz e The Online Adapter Management Utility kit name for Linux has changed from elxflashOnline tgz lt platforms gt lt version gt lt rel gt tgz to elxflashOnline tgz linux lt version gt lt rel gt tgz e The Offline Adapter Management Utility Linux Inbox NIC kit name has changed from elxflashOffline_inbox_NIC lt platforms gt lt version gt lt rel gt tgz to elxflashOffline_inbox_NIC linux lt version gt lt rel gt tgz Elxflash Offline Online Utilities Release Notes 6 P007622 01B Rev A gt EMULEX 2 The Offline Online Adapter Management Utility kit for Citrix operating systems is part of the Linux Offline Online Adapter Management Utility kit for Linux 3 The follo
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