Date:
(C) Copyright International Business Machines
Corp., 2004 All rights reserved.
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To
launch the browser, right mouse click on the desktop to bring up the menu.
Select "Net" and then "Browser".
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To
start a restricted shell terminal, right mouse click on the desktop to bring up
the menu. Select "Terminals" and then "rshterm".
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Currently, HMC only stores 4 service processor dumps and 4
platform system dumps per managed system.
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Changes of a partition profile do not apply to the partition immediately. The changes will only
take effect on the partition when activation is done through the profile.
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If users are interested in keylock
positions and SRC values when
performing
Operator Panel Service Functions through Service Focal Point, they can be viewed from the Server and
Partition plugin.
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To view system event logs, you must login as a user with
‘hmcpe’ role. From Service Applications, select Service Focal Point
-> Service Utilities -> Actions -> View Problem Logs.
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The HMC can
support 16 concurrent licensed internal code updates on all systems except the
p5 595, i5 595, p5 590 and p5 575. The HMC can only support one p5 595, i5 595,p5 590 and p5 575 concurrent licensed internal code update at a time.
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HMC Version 4
Release 2 or higher is required to manage pSeries
Power5 servers.
HMC Version 4 Release 3 and up now enables Ext3 File System. If you wish to take advantage of journaled file system, you must install or upgrade your HMC using the Version 4 Release 3 and up Recovery CDs.
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Server
Management:
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i5/OS partitions
on pSeries systems
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The
following commands have been added:
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chusrtca – manages the display of a Terms
and Conditions agreement to all users who log in locally to the HMC
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lsusrtca –
lists the status of the display of a Terms and Conditions agreement to all
users who log in locally to the HMC
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lssysconn – lists connection information for
systems and frames managed by the HMC
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sendfile –
transfers a file from the HMC to a remote system using File Transfer Protocol
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An
option has been added to the chsysstate command to power off all of the unowned I/O units in a managed frame.
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An option
has been added to the lsvet command to display the Virtualization
Engine systems technologies activation history log.
Known Issues:
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If a checkstop occurs on the managed system and the system recovers,
but access to that managed system's virtual terminal is lost, do the following
to restore the virtual terminal:
1. On the HMC, right click on the managed system name
that lost the virtual terminal.
2. From the pop-up menu, select "Reset or Remove
Connection".
3. Then select "Reset Connection" and click OK.
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Dynamic partition
configuration for memory move can take a while. During that time, no other
operation can be performed.
· When selecting multiple I/O slots
for dynamic partition configuration, it will stop on the first failure.
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After configuring
your network setting, make sure to reboot your HMC. Otherwise, dynamic logical
partitioning for AIX/Linux partitions may not work.
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Users cannot
change virtual Opticonnect and HSL Opticonnect settings through the GUI without activating the
changes through a partition profile. Users can change the settings dynamically
through the command line interface.
Usage:
chhwres -m <managed system name> -r virtualio –-rsubtype virtualopti
-p <partition name> -o s –a “virtual_opti_pool_id=[0|1]”
Usage:
chhwres –m <managed system name> -r virtualio -–rsubtype hsl
–p <partition name> -o s –a “hsl_pool_id=[0|1]”
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Error messages
for some Dynamic Logical Partitioning tasks give ‘AIX’ as the
partition type even though it’s actually a Linux partition.
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Unable to perform
Dynamic Logical Partitioning virtual I/O remove operations if the partition
does not have a current profile.
· Mnemonics are not supported in double byte
and ru locales.
· The HMC uses several external components.
These components are not developed by the HMC team and are translated as part
of a separate translation plan and schedule. The mix of English and translated
text is an unavoidable situation and has the potential to occur anytime the HMC
is updated or pulls in a new version of an external application that is updated
in between its normally scheduled translation cycles.
· Due
to the limitation of groff, some characters in the
output of "man" command might be corrupted in traditional Chinese,
simplified Chinese and Korean when the window is too narrow. Widen the window
and retry the command again.
· Korean
input is supported. Press Shift-Space to switch between English and Korean
input mode.
· Traditional and Simplified Chinese input
is supported in zh_TW and zh_CN
locales. Press CTRL-Space to
switch between English and Chinese input
mode. Press CTRL-Shift to select an input method. Press space bar to see more
Chinese characters.
· Japanese input is supported. Press
Shift-Space to switch between English and Japanese input mode.
· User ID, User information, HMC User
password, Partition name, managed system name, profile name and system profile name are in English only.
· IBM275 doesn't work well when connecting
from IBM Personal Communications or iSeries Access to
an HMC. Use another Brazil codepage. The codepage "IBM930 Japan
Katakana" doesn't work well either. Use "IBM930 Japan Katakana
Extended" instead.
· An ibm5250 session opened on the HMC
locally will be in the same locale as the one that is set for the HMC. To open
a session in a different locale, change the HMC locale first, logout, login and
then invoke ibm5250. The other option is to connect to the HMC using a remote
emulator, e.g. IBM Personal Communications or iSeries
Access, in the desired locale.
· Help Search is not supported. However,
Find is supported for Help.
· Printing is not supported.
· The numerical keypad on some keyboards doesn't
work. Use the normal numerical keys instead.
· When your power5 system is shipped to you it is in a
non-HMC managed mode by default. Once you attach and set up an HMC to manage
your power5 system, the default non-HMC managed mode is exited. The procedure
to return to the default non-HMC managed mode is documented on the InfoCenter website under “Resetting the server to a
non partitioned configuration”. The following link will redirect you to
the document.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2s/en_US/info/iphbl/iphblresetserver.htm
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Cert |
bug summary |
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CAN-2004-0415 |
SECURITY: kernel: local privilege escalation,
race condition in file offset pointer handling |
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VU#550464 CAN-2004-0644 |
SECURITY: krb5: remote unauthenticated DoS |
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no cert. |
SECURITY: Kernel: unannounced security patches
(audit & queued signals)... |
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CAN-2004-0817 |
Security: imlib: local execution via heap
overflow |
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CAN-2004-0687 CAN-2004-0688 |
SECURITY: xf86: multiple buffer overflows with
malformed xpm images |
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no cert. |
SECURITY: gettext: Insecure temporary file
handling |
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CAN-2004-0804 |
SECURITY: tiff: Buffer overflows in image
decoding |
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CAN-2004-0975 |
SECURITY: Openssl: possible symlink
attack via temp file mishandling |
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can-2004-0940 |
SECURITY: Apache: local buffer overflow in get_tag function in mod_include |
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no cert. |
SECURITY: xf86: SuSE security
updates for libxpm |
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no cert. |
SECURITY: imlib: SuSE xpm security updates in imlib |
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CAN-2004-0989 |
SECURITY: libxml: remote code execution, buffer
overflow |
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CAN-2004-0971 |
SECURITY: krb5: krb5-workstation: Possible symlink attack, priv escalation
via temproary file mishandling |
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Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory #2004-0053 |
SECURITY: Cyrus-sasl: (ver
1.5.27) Insecure handling of environment variable |