This document is an overview of the changes made to HP Network Node Manager iSPI Performance for Quality Assurance Software (NNM iSPI Performance for QA). It contains important information that is not included in the guides or the Online Help. You can find information about the following in this document:
What's New in This Release
Installation Notes
Support Matrix
Known Problems, Limitations, and Workaround
Documentation
Integration with other HP products
Support
Legal Notices
NNM iSPI Performance for QA 9.11 contains new features, feature enhancements, and other changes.
NNM iSPI Performance for QA 9.11 contains these new features and enhancements:
You can download NNM iSPI Performance for QA 9.11 as a patch for the version 9.10.
For pre-requisites and steps to install NNM iSPI Performance for QA 9.11, see the patch text.
Follow these steps, while uninstalling NNM iSPI Performance for QA 9.11:
We recommend that you back up the data for version 9.10 and 9.11 before uninstalling NNM iSPI Performance for QA 9.10 or 9.11, using the following command:
While installing NNM iSPI Performance for QA in HA environment, follow these steps to make sure that the NNM iSPI Performance for QA extension packs perform as expected:
$NNMdatadir/shared/nnm/conf/ov.conf
NNM_HA_CONFIGURED = Yes
HA_PERFSPI_ADAPTER_DIR = <HaAdapterDir>
Windows
%NNMInstallDir%/conf/qa/QAReportPackInstall/Class_Based_QoS.tar.gz
%NNMInstallDir%/conf/qa/QAReportPackInstall/Quality_Assurance.tar.gz
UNIX
$NNMInstallDir/newconfig/qa/QAReportPackInstall/Class_Based_QoS.tar.gz
$NNMInstallDir/newconfig/qa/QAReportPackInstall/Quality_Assurance.tar.gz
Put the following NNM iSPI Performance for QA extension packs in the HA_SharedDisk for Network Performance Server (NPS) manually:
You can find the Support Matrix for this product that lists all software and hardware requirements at this location:HP Support matrices
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This release contains the following unresolved problems and limitations. The list also contains workarounds to resolve certain problems.
QCCR1B93165
| PROBLEM: | The Queuing tab of CBQoS Class Map form displays duplicate police configuration value. Note that you can open the CBQoS Class Map form by selecting a traffic class in the Traffic Class tab of the CBQoS Policy form, and clicking Open. |
| WORKAROUND: | None |
QCCR1B93390
| PROBLEM: | Cluster Switch-Over does not close NNM ISPI Performance for QA jboss related ports properly, while running in Linux VCS HA setup, causing switch-back problem. |
| WORKAROUND: | Check if any of the port used by NNM ISPI Performance for QA is in use. Release the ports that are in use and start the failover process again. |
QCCR1B89873
| PROBLEM: | Interface inventory displays service policy as one action in a single parent policy, even if the child policy is invoked by two parent policies |
| WORKAROUND: | None. |
QCCR1B91222
| PROBLEM: | If you seed new nodes in the regional manager while the global manager is down, NNM iSPI Performance for QA does not populate the global manager with the CBQoS data after the bridge is re-established. |
| WORKAROUND: | Perform configuration polling in the regional manager after the bridge is re-established. |
QCCR1B91647
| PROBLEM: | The command nmsqadisco.ovpl fails, while attempting to discover 849 nodes. |
| WORKAROUND: | Avoid using this command to discover large number of nodes. |
QCCR1B91959
| PROBLEM: | The Threshold Tab in the CBQoS Interface Inventory View displays the classmap details of the default classes of the policy. |
| WORKAROUND: | This is expected behavior. You configure a set of actions for the default classes of a policy too. Even if you filter the default classes using the CBQoS Discovery Filter, NNM iSPI Performance for QA displays the actions configured on such classes The threshold State tab contains two sets of values, runtime (state) and static (configured) values. The class default displays the configured values and not the state values if you have not configured any action on these classes. |
QCCR1B93121
| PROBLEM: | Few command line utility reference links are missing in NNM iSPI Performance for QA Reference Pages. |
| WORKAROUND: | None |
QCCR1B93346
| PROBLEM: | NNM iSPI Performance for QA jboss logs display the following exception: SQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException: ORA-00001 |
| WORKAROUND: | This exception is not specific to any database. This exception occurs if the database was not shut down properly. |
QCCR1B93119
| PROBLEM: | Clicking Actions > Reporting-Report Menu after selecting a CBQoS interface from the CBQoS Interface view may not work. |
| WORKAROUND: |
Run the nnmsilentenableperfspi.ovpl command from the following directory:
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QCCR1B90060
| PROBLEM: | NNM iSPI Performance for QA does not display the nested classes match statements |
| WORKAROUND: | None |
QCCR1B91443
| PROBLEM: | CBQoS Discovery Filter Configuration form does not appear in NNM iSPI Performance for QA Configuration form on HP-UX platform |
| WORKAROUND: | Delete the items under /opt/OV/nonOV/qa/jboss/server/nms/work/jboss.web/localhost/qa to clear the JSP cache. |
QCCR1B93071
| PROBLEM: | Selecting a traffic class and clicking on Open in CbQoS Policy Details form throws the following exception: This item has been deleted. Currently, this exception appears for the following forms:
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| WORKAROUND: | Double click on the selected traffic class to open the CBQoS Class Map Details form. |
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