ACS v 3.3.0 Release Notes
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1. s inconsistent in this doc Check v capitalization for consistency Known issues from previous versions still present in this one 1 Configuration of alarm current threshold per segment is not available for Cyclades Intelligent Power Distribution Units IPDUs with 2 segment running firmware version 1 8 0 or early Detection of Cyclades IPDU with 2 segment will fail if the unit is daisy chained after an Avocent PM PDU running version 1 3 0 This problem affects the Power Device Add operation through DSView 3 software because the chain will not be detected Detection of Cyclades IPDU with 2 segment running firmware version 1 9 1 will fail if the unit is daisy chained after a Cyclades IPDU running firmware version 1 9 2 The configuration of polling rate is by IPDU however it is effective for the serial port If the serial port has a chain of IPDUs the poll rate will be the lesser value different than the DEFAULT value 10000 ms Billing Modem Replace Generic Dial and Raw Data 2 ways features were removed from ACS due to size limitation The support for F option force upgrade for PDUs without logical connection was removed from pmfwupgrade command Web browser Netscape 8 1 is not supported to access Cyclades ACS console server Web interface Using ACS console server Web interface whenever a new user is configured with privileges to manage the outlets of a certain server Ports gt Physical Ports gt Mod2. ACS 6000 appliance the hostname comes in the middle of the banner for example ACS6000 2 0 1 3 20090507 MY ACS6048 ttyS0 The answer string ACS6000 A Za z0 9 ttyS will get the MY ACS6048 as the hostname of the ACS 6000 Change Log The following changes were made in this release 1 Pmd_ng daemon was modified to support the Avocent PM PDU and the ServerTech Smart CDU 2 The following files were modified to remove the support for Billing and others customized features modem replace raw data 2 way generic dial etc portslave pslave conf etc config_files etc daemon list 3 The etc Idap conf was modified to add the following line tIls_checkpeer no
3. Outlets Manager gt Show table with Current Power Consumption and Alarm state for Avocent PM PDUs View IPDUs Info displays for each detected PDU number of banks number of phases current power consumption voltage and power factor per PDU Phase and Bank environment sensors information Configuration of the current thresholds for the PDU for each Phase and for each Bank IV New Enterprise MIB to address the information from the new PDUs new tables for PDU Phases Banks and Outlets with information about current voltage power factor power consumption new table with information about environment monitoring sensors Cyclades ACS 3 3 0 console server release contains the following fixes 1 AUN SSHD will send during negotiation with the client the list of authentication methods available based on its configuration etc ssh sshd_config file Fixed L3 case SAP 65489604 Sierra Wireless GPRS 750 card is detected as serial device Fixed L3 case LDAPS does not require manual configuration in the etc Idap conf file Support for power control outlets in a daisy chained through SNMP Set command Fixed L3 case When adding a community SNMP Configuration if appliance is using Ethernet dual stack mode the community will be valid for both networks IPv4 and IPv6 However source should be configured using the IPv4 mapped lpv6 address In other release notes you have IPV4 and IPV6 and it
4. Cyclades ACS Advanced Console Server Appliances Release Notes Version 3 3 0 September 25 2009 This document outlines 1 Update Instructions 2 Appliance Firmware Version and Language Support Information 3 Enhancements 4 Fixes 5 Known Issues Restrictions 6 Configuration Details 7 Change Log Please refer to your installation administrator and user manual for detailed instructions to update the Cyclades ACS console server to version 3 3 0 An upgrade to the Cyclades ACS plug in for DSView 3 management software is not required However the support to the Avocent PM 1000 PM 2000 and PM 3000 Power Management Power Distribution Units PM PDUs as well as the ServerTech Smart CDU will not be available through the DSView 3 software if the previous version of the plug in is used In order to have all features listed in this release available through DSView 3 software DSView 3 software version 3 7 1 and ACS plug in version 3 3 0 are required An appliance firmware package to upgrade from DSView 3 software is also available After ACS console server firmware has been upgraded to version 3 3 0 it is mandatory that the Web browser cache of any system which intends to be connected to the ACS console server Web interface is cleaned up ACS console server firmware version 3 3 0 provides an internal mechanism which preserves existing configuration when upgrading from firmware versions 2 6 0 and later However it is strongly recommen
5. LVER SSLv3 or SSLVER SSLv23 SSLCIPHER DEFAULT or SSLCIPHER HIGH or SSLCIPHER MEDIUM or SSLCIPHER LOW 5 When configuring X 509 Authentication in ssh server the file etc ssh authorized_keys must allow read and write permissions This can be done by issuing the commands below chmod 600 etc ssh authorized_keys chmod 755 config runconfig config savetoflash 6 The Hostname Discovery feature It requires the following configuration in the serial port a Connection Protocol Console Telnet Console SSH or Console SSH Telnet DCD State Regard Data Buffering Enabled Data Buffering Destination Local Data Buffering File Size bytes 100 or more Hostname Discovery checked Timeout seconds 10 o QTtrodao It has by factory default the following configuration a Probe String n b Answer String A Za z0 9 Ll ogin This answer will match most of Unix It uses the following regular expression in Answer String to match the hostname A Za z0 9 Examples of Answer String a Most of Linux machines the hostname comes in the login prompt for example MY Linux login The answer string A Za z0 9 I Ll ogin will get MY Linux as the hostname of the server b Cisco routers the hostname comes in the prompt for example Cisco2522 gt The answer string A Za z0 9 _ gt will get the Cisco2522 as the hostname of the device c
6. ded that you back up system configuration before the firmware version is upgraded Appliance Product Firmware Version Filename Part Type Number Cyclades ACS Opcode V_3 3 0 f10536010 bin FLO536 010 console server all f10536010 bin md5 models Enhancements Please refer to your installation administrator and user manual for a detailed list of features supported by Cyclades ACS console server version 3 3 0 Major features of Cyclades ACS console server 3 3 0 include l Power Mgmt supports new PM PDUs Avocent PMPDUs PM 1000 PM 2000 and PM 3000 PDU family ServerTech Smart CDUs with version 6 0g or later Il pmCommand has new commands to support the measured information of the new IPDUs powerondelay Display or configure post turn on outlet delay poweroffdelay Display or configure post turn off outlet delay coldstartdelay Set the duration of the cold start delay for PDU currentthreshold Display or set the threshold for current of one element powerinfo Display or clear the power consumption of one element cumulativepower Display or clear the cumulative power consumption of one element powerfactor Display or reset the recorded power factor of one element voltageinfo Display or clear the recorded voltage for one element sensors Display or set the environment monitoring sensors lll Web User Interface PDU Power Mgmt menu The following pages are upgraded
7. ify Selected Ports gt Power Management it is necessary to press buttons Try Changes or Apply Changes before the new user can be seen in Applications Applications gt PMD Configuration gt Users Management Cyclades ACS console server v3 0 0 was the last ACS console server firmware version that was compatible with AlterPath Manager APM v1 4 1 The upgrade of the ACS console server firmware code may fail if the internal files are concurrently being accessed by another process or operation If this occurs please try firmware upgrading again until it succeeds When the upgrade operation is performed from DSView 3 software make sure to review the Operation Results and confirm it has finished successfully before the ACS console server can be rebooted It is also recommended that the DSView 3 software status polling is disabled while firmware upgrade is run NOTE Please do not reboot the ACS console server if the firmware upgrade operation has failed It will render the console server completely inoperable and require technical assistance The ACS console server Classic Boot Application will not be upgraded to support IPV6 protocol which means that ACS console server boot configuration will not support IPV6 protocol If firmware upgrade using IPv6 is necessary the user can do it through FTP or scp using either WMI Web Management Interface or CLI Command Line Interface IPv6 support will not be available fo
8. r the following services a IPMI Intelligent Power Management Interface b NIS Remote Authentication c Port Virtualization Clustering d NFS Network File System e LPD Line Printer Daemon IPv6 support in Dial up Connections ACS plug in Version 1 3 1 for DSView 3 5 1 software or later will not allow configuration of IPv6 addresses for dial up connections Communication between DSView 3 5 1 or later software and appliance units including ACS console servers while in contingency mode modem connection active will be encapsulated in IPv4 over PPP Point to Point dial connections Samba client access to Windows File System was removed from an ACS console server image due to size limitations The PCMCIA commands suspend resume and reset are not supported with Linux Kernel 2 6 22 1 2 o 5 PCMCIA Ethernet Xircom cards only work at 10 Mbps when connected to 3Com and D Link hub switches When the Hostname Discovery feature is enabled the Physical Ports screen doesn t automatically reflect Hostname changes in the servers connected to the ACS console server serial ports It is necessary to log out from the web interface and then log in again to refresh the browser cache and load the new names AS DHCPv6 protocol does not provide IPv6 prefix lengths just IPv6 addresses there must be an IPv6 router providing advertisement messages with network prefixes
9. to the ACS console server when it is configured to obtain its IPv6 address from a DHCPV6 server If the prefix is not sent by a router the ACS console server will become unreachable This is a limitation of the DHCPv 6 protocol When the IPv6 configuration method for the Ethernet interface is set to DHCP DHCPV6 parameters stateful IPv6 address DNS server and Domain name are accepted even if the Managed address configuration and Other configuration flags sent by the IPv6 router are not set If the authentication method is NIS the user is advised to create an entry for user id 0 in the authentication server otherwise many ACS console server applications may not work Another option is to always use NIS Local instead of NIS Some MS Windows Servers events may not be correctly formatted Please note the following Configuration Details for this release 1 It is necessary to explicitly specify the local and remote IPv6 addresses when using PPP connections with IPv6 otherwise the PPP connection will not work see your installation administrator and user manual for configuration details When adding an IPv4 community SNMP Configuration and the network is using dual stack mode you should configure as source an IPv4 mapped lpv6 address When editing file etc resolv conf manually there should be no spaces after the addresses configured for DNS servers 4 The syntax for etc ssl_version conf is SSLVER SSLv2 or SS
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