ACS 5000 v330-5 Release Notes
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1. bin FLO588 007 console server all FLO588 007 bin md5 models FL0588 007 pkg English language supported Please refer to your installation administrator and user manual for a detailed list of features supported by the Cyclades ACS 5000 console server version 3 3 0 Features of Patch Release 3 3 0 9 1 Appliance s Serial Number can be retrieved by SNMP query New CYCLADES ACS5000 MIB ASN file has the description of this OID 2 The configuration of Polling Rate is by serial port configured as Power Management instead of by PDU The unit of polling rate is now seconds 3 Linux Kernel applied patches that fix the following security issues CVE 2011 0726 CVE 2011 1171 CVE 2011 1172 CVE 2011 1182 and CVE 2011 1593 Cyclades ACS 5000 3 3 0 10 release contains the following fix 1 Configuration upgrade from 3 3 0 5 or earlier version updates Power Mgmt configuration file etc pmd conf without error SAP 65642621 Cyclades ACS 5000 3 3 0 9 release contains the following fix 1 New mechanism tries to recover chain of Cyclades PM with 1 9 4 version SAP 65613042 Known issues present in this release 1 Power management is taking longer to get all the information from the PM PDU during start up time when there are a large number of PM PDU units to be detected During this phase users can feel some slowness to access the appliance 2 Configuration of alarm current threshold per segment is not available for2. get the lesser configured value to be the polling rate of all serial ports configured as Power Management Please note the following Configuration Details for the release 3 3 0 6 1 It is necessary to configure Hardware flow control in the serial ports configured as dial in profile PPP not auth or PPP because most of external modem has this configuration by default 2 lt 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 3 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 4 When editing file etc resolv conf manually there should be no spaces after the addresses configured for DNS servers 5 It is necessary to edit the etc ssl_version conf file to configure SSL version and cipher level Follow the syntax SSLVER lt SSLv gt SSLCIPHER lt level gt Where lt SSLv gt SSL version SSLv2 only version 2 SSLv3 only version 3 SSLv23 both version 2 and version 3 lt level gt level of the ciphers DEFAULT HIGH MEDIUM LOW 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 60
3. 0 etc ssh authorized_keys chmod 755 config runconftig config savetoflash 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 c Data Buffering Enabled d Data Buffering Destination Local e Data Buffering File Size bytes 100 or more f Hostname Discovery checked g Timeout seconds 10 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 _ Llogin will get MY Linux as the hostname of the server 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 ACS 6000 appliance the hostname comes in the middle of the banner for example ACS6000 2 0 1 3 20090507 MY ACS6048 ttySO The answer string ACS6000 A Za z0 9 _ ttyS will get the MY ACS6048 as the hostname of the ACS 6000 oO Avocent is a registered trademark of Avocent C
4. Cyclades Intelligent Power Distribution Unit with 2 segment running firmware version 1 8 0 or early 3 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 management software because the chain will not be detected 4 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 support for F option force upgrade for the PDU without logical connection was removed from pmfwupgrade command Using the Cyclades ACS 5000 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 Modify 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 The upgrade of the Cyclades ACS 5000 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 succe
5. Cyclades ACS 5000 Advanced Console Server Appliances Release Notes Version 3 3 0 10 August 30 2011 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 Please refer to your installation administrator and user manual for detailed instructions to update the Cyclades ACS 5000 console server to version 3 3 0 10 In order to have all features listed in this release available through DSView 3 management software DSView 3 software version 3 7 1 and the Cyclades ACS 5000 console server plug in version 3 3 5 are required An appliance firmware package to upgrade from DSView 3 software is also available After Cyclades ACS 5000 console server firmware has been upgraded to version 3 3 0 10 it is mandatory that the Web browser cache of any system which intends to be connected to the Cyclades ACS 5000 console server Web interface is cleaned up Cyclades ACS 5000 console server firmware version 3 3 0 10 provides an internal mechanism which preserves existing configuration when upgrading from firmware versions 1 0 2 and later However it is strongly recommended that you back up system configuration before the firmware version is upgraded Appliance Product Firmwar Version Filename Part e Type Number Cyclades ACS 5000 Opcode V_3 3 0 10 FL0588 007
6. and load the new names AS DHCP v6 protocol does not provide IPv6 prefix lengths just IPv6 addresses there must be an IPv6 router providing advertisement messages with network prefixes 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 DHCPv6 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 14 If the authentication method is NIS the user is advised to create an entry for user id 0 in the authentication server otherwise many of the Cyclades ACS 5000 console server applications may not work Another option is to always use NIS Local instead of NIS 15 Some events that occur in the Windows operating system environment may not be correctly formatted For further information go to http www microsoft com about legal en us IntellectualProperty Trademarks Usage Windows aspx Please note the following Configuration Details for the release 3 3 0 9 1 The polling rate configuration is now part of serial port configuration under PORTS section in etc pmd conf file The old lt PDU ID gt pollrate is obsolete The upgrade procedure will
7. orporation in tthe United States and other countries DSView 3 and Cyclades are trademarks of Avocent Corporation in the United States and other countires Linux is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U S and other countries Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the U S and other countries Cisco is a registered trademark of Cisco Systems in the U S and other countries
8. ssfully before the Cyclades ACS 5000 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 Cyclades ACS 5000 console server if the firmware upgrade operation has failed It will render the console server completely inoperable and require technical assistance The Cyclades ACS 5000 console server Boot Application will not be upgraded to support IPV6 protocol which means that the Cyclades ACS 5000 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 for the following services a IPMI Intelligent Power Management Interface NIS Remote Authentication Port Virtualization Clustering NFS Network File System b C d e LPD Line Printer Daemon Samba client access to the File System with the Microsoft Windows interface removed from the Cyclades ACS 5000 image due to size limitations When the Hostname Discovery feature is enabled the Physical Ports screen doesn t automatically reflect Hostname changes in the servers connected to the Cyclades ACS 5000 console server serial ports It is necessary to log out from the web interface and then log in again to refresh the browser cache
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