HP Operations Smart Plug-in Upgrade Toolkit Release Notes

for HP Operations Manager for HP-UX, Linux, and Solaris

Software version: 2.02

Publication date: November 2010

This document provides an overview of the changes made to HP Operations Smart Plug-in Upgrade Toolkit (SPI Upgrade Toolkit) version 2.02. This document also contains information about the following:

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What's New in This Release?
Installation Notes
Software and Hardware Support
Known Problems, Limitations, and Workarounds
Documentation Updates
Support
Legal Notices

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What's New in This Release?

HP Operations SPI Upgrade Toolkit helps you preserve all customizations done on policies while you upgrade a SPI to the higher version. By automating the task of merging all policy customizations to the new version of policies, the SPI Upgrade Toolkit helps you retain the modified policy settings after you upgrade the Smart Plug-in (SPI) to the higher version. This version of the SPI Upgrade Toolkit includes the following features:

Note: SPI DVD 2009.1 is for HP-UX, SPI DVD 10.01 is for Linux, and SPI DVD 10.02 is for Solaris.

Installation Notes

Installation requirements, as well as instructions for installing SPI Upgrade Toolkit, are documented in the User Guide for HP Operations Smart Plug-in Upgrade Toolkit provided in PDF (.pdf) format.

The Online Help provided with the product is context sensitive help that provides documentation for the particular feature that you are in the process of using. For more information on the product, see the HP Operations Smart Plug-in Upgrade Toolkit User Guide.

Software and Hardware Support

Refer to the Support Matrix (SUMA) link http://support.openview.hp.com/selfsolve/document/KM323488 for the supported HP Operations Manager, Application Servers, HP Performance Agent, and HP Performance Manager version.

For information on the archived obsolescence programs, refer to the Obsolescence Archive link http://support.openview.hp.com/encore/om_spis_2009.jsp.

Known Problems, Limitations, and Workarounds

This release contains the following unresolved problems and limitations. Workarounds are provided wherever applicable.

Documentation Updates

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Legal Notices

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