Original Publication Date: June 13, 2013
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In a number of places, the SAVA appliance user interface (UI) displays options or choices that are greyed-out. These choices or options are unsupported.
This section describes known issues for SAVA. The table lists issues first alphabetically by Subsystem, then numerically within each subsystem.
| QCCR1D | Symptom/Description | Platform | Subsystem | Workaround |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Agent | ||||
| QCCR1D166492 | If you change the IP address of the SAVA Appliance, you must reinstall all the agents on the existing managed servers. |
Independent | SA Agent | None |
Appliance |
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| QCCR1D164077/ QCCR1D 164151 /QCCR1D164143 |
.bin file names cannot includes spaces or special non-English characters.
When the file name does include these, the files might not be uploaded, the appliance will malfunction, and, if the characters were non-English characters, the file name will be changed to nonsensical characters.. |
VMware ESXi. Linux | Appliance | Do not use spaces or special characters in .bin file names.
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| QCCR1D164966 | Multiple SA jobs fail after Appliance and SA network information is changed through the Appliance interface. |
SAVA/VMware | SAVA Appliance | There is no workaround once the change is made through the Appliance interface. NOTE: Do not change Appliance and SA network information from the Appliance interface after the Appliance FTS (First Time Setup) was already done. |
Interface |
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| QCCR1D162957 | In the SAVA User Interface (UI), when you click the HP icon in the upper-right corner, nothing happens. This icon has no function. |
Independent | User Interface | N/A. |
Installer | ||||
| QCCR1D162830 | The SAVA appliance might not reboot automatically during initial appliance setup. Specifically, the appliance becomes unresponsive after you enter network information on the console and the Applying network settings screen is displayed. | Independent | Installer | If the appliance does not reboot within 10 minutes, use the VMware tools to reboot the server manually, and then log in again with your new Administrator password. The network setting screen displays the information you already entered. Click OK to accept the settings and to initiate the reboot. |
| QCCR1D162574 | After you enter network information on the console and the Applying network settings screen is displayed, you sometimes see the following error message: An error was encountered while retrieving OS Deployment settings. Ignore this message.
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Independent | Installer | The appliance will reboot on its own in a few minutes. |
ISM Tool |
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| QCCR1D163521 | After the ISM Tool is installed, if commands (such as ismtool.cmd, ismusertool.cmd) are issued, they fail with the following error:
The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more detail. |
Windows | ISM Tool | Install Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package (x86). |
Software Management |
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| QCCR1D163167 | If configured to import packages for unsupported platforms (such as RHEL 5 i386), rhn_import will not filter out those packages. Instead, the packages will be imported and the corresponding software policies will be created for the unsupported platforms. All these will be visible in the By Folder view of the Library. |
Independent | Software Management | None |
| QCCR1D163518 | Server remediation is completed but the job is still in progress, and the end job button is enabled. | Independent | Software Management | None |
| QCCR1D163868 | When remediating two different versions of the same rpm package with the install flag set, the older version of the package will be overridden by the newest one, instead of having two different versions of the same package installed on the managed server. |
AIX, Linux, Solaris | Software Management | None |
| QCCR1D166144 | When trying to remediate a Linux software policy with a large number of rpms on a SAVA core against a managed server, a PostgresSQL error might be thrown. | Independent | Software Management Backend | Try splitting the policy into smaller policies, or contact HP Support. |
User Interface |
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| QCCR1D162015 | When setting the SAVA appliance hostname, the managed server instance that represents the core still shows the hostname in the format ci-<mac address>. | Independent | User Interface | The SA agent on the SA core instance in the appliance always picks up the internal hostname. This has no adverse effects on SA. |
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