HP Operations Smart Plug-in for Cluster Infrastructure Release Notes

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

Software version: 2.01

Publication date: February 2012

This document is an overview of the features in HP Operations Smart Plug-in for Cluster Infrastructure (CI SPI). It contains important information that is not included in the manual or the online help. You can find information about the following in this document:

Whats New in This Release
Supported Environments
Installation Notes
Known Problems, Limitations, and Workarounds
Documentation Updates
Localization Support
Support
Legal Notices

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What's New in This Release

HP Operations Smart Plug-in for Cluster Infrastructure contains the following feature enhancements:

• Support for MCSG Cluster module with version 11.20.
• Defect fixes. For more information, see the Infrastructure SPI 2.01 patch text.

Supported Environments

Before installing the Cluster Infrastructure SPI, make sure that your system meets the following minimum requirements for HPOM management server and managed nodes. To know more about the supported operating system architectures, supported operating system release versions, required patches, and recent updates, visit the support matrix URL: HP Software Support Matrix.

Management Server Requirements

The Infrastructure SPIs are supported on HPOM for Windows, HP-UX, Linux, and Solaris operating systems. The following table lists HPOM requirements and the HP Software products you must install on the management server. The patches mentioned are the minimum applicable level. Always apply the latest available patches.

* Contact HP Support to obtain the hotfix.

Supported Agent Versions on Managed Nodes

The Infrastructure SPIs support nodes running Windows, AIX, Linux, HP-UX, or Solaris operating systems. The following table lists the agent versions that you must deploy on the managed nodes. Install the latest patch available for the agents.

Supported Cluster Environments

• High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing (HACMP/PowerHA) for AIX
• MC Service Guard Cluster (MCSG) for HP-UX and Linux
• Red Hat Advanced Server (RHAS) Cluster for RHEL
• Solaris Cluster for Solaris
• Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) for UNIX and Windows
• Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) for Windows

Enhancements and Fixes

You can view details about each software enhancement or fix using the reference number from the HP Software Support Online. You need a HP passport to access this web site. To set up your passport profile, go to: HP Support.

For the list of defects fixed in this release, see the Infrastructure SPI 2.01 patch text.

Installation Notes

To install Infrastructure SPIs, version 2.01, follow these steps:
Note - Install Infrastructure SPIs version 2.00 from the media before you install Infrastructure SPIs version 2.01.

1. Go to the following web site:
   HP Software Product Patches
2. Log on to the web site with your HP Passport credentials.
   
3. Search the files with the following keywords:
   
   • Smart Plug-in for Systems Infrastructure
   • Smart Plug-in for Cluster Infrastructure
   • Smart Plug-in for Virtualization Infrastructure

The search result includes links to download the files.


4. Click one of the links and download the file on your system.

For more information, see the patch text to install the Infrastructure SPIs on the HPOM management server.

About upgrading Infrastructure SPIs from earlier versions, see HP Operations Smart Plug-in for Infrastructure Installation Guide.

Known Problems, Limitations, and Workarounds

Limitation

This release of CI SPI has the following limitations:

Known Problems and Workarounds

The known problems and workarounds for this release of Cluster Infrastructure SPI are listed below:

• Problem: Ctrl-M (^M) characters appear in instrumentation scripts for Infrastructure SPI policies. These characters make the scripts difficult to edit on UNIX and Linux systems.

  Workaround: Before you edit or customize the instrumentation scripts, remove the Ctrl-M(^M) characters using the following OS command as appropriate:

  • On HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, and AIX system run the following command: sed –i “s/^M//g”

    Note that ^M is NOT SHIFT+6 + M. Type CTRL+V+M to run the command.

  • Alternatively, on Linux system you can run the following: dos2unix (or other such utility on the scripts).

• Problem: For the SNMP nodes added by Infrastructure SPI on HPOM for Windows, the alert appears as critical node may be down.

  Workaround: To manually update the hearbeat polling protocol for the SNMP node to ICMP, follow these steps:

  1. In the HPOM for Windows management server console, right-click the SNMP node.
  2. Choose Properties from the pop-up menu.
  3. Select the Network tab.
  4. Under Heartbeat Polling, change the value of Polling to "custom" and the value of Ping Protocol to "ICMP Only".
  5. Click Apply and then click OK.

• Problem: CLUSTER_LOCAL_NODENAME should be automatically set in conf.cluster namespace during agent installation on a cluster. For more information, see QCCR1A10498

  Workaround: Manually set the XPL config for CLUSTER_LOCAL_NODENAME on all clusters before deploying CI SPI policies. Otherwise, if you run ovclusterinfo –a command, the error appears as cannot get cluster state from the local machine. Before deploying the CI SPI policies on the cluster nodes, follow these steps to set the XPL config:

  1. Check if the namespace conf.cluster is created in the nodeinfo file(XPL). Type: # ovconfget conf.cluster

     The namespace should have the following 3 entries
     [conf.cluster]
     CLUSTER_TYPE=AIX Cluster (HACMP)
     MONITOR_MODE=TRUE
     POLLING_INTERVAL=10000

  2. If these values are not present, restart ovconfd. Run the command: # ovc  -restart  ovconfd.

  3. Add CLUSTER_LOCAL_NODENAME along with the hostname configured in the cluster below these entries. For example, CLUSTER_LOCAL_NODENAME=testsun1

     Here testsun1 is the name configured in the HA cluster configuration.

• Problem: When you install Infra SPI 2.01 on HPOM for Solaris, the error appears as /etc/opt/OV/share/conf/OpC/mgmt_sv/integration/cfgupld
  /post/cvp _upload.sh: [[: not found. For more information, see QCCR1A126296.

  Workaround: Follow these steps:

  1. Replace #!/bin/sh in the script by #!/usr/xpg4/bin/sh.

  2. If needed, repeat step 1 in the following script:
     /etc/opt/OV/share/conf/OpC/mgmt_sv/integration/*/*/cvp
_*.sh
     
     Note: /usr/xpg4/bin/sh should be available on all Solaris systems as it is used in all the OM script (for example, /opt/OV/bin/OpC).

Documentation Updates

The following documentation is available for Cluster Infrastructure SPI:

• Installation Guide
• Concepts Guide
• User Guide

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• Version number, which indicates the software version.
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Localization Support

HP supplies Infrastructure SPI localized software and documentation in these languages:

• Japanese
• Simplified Chinese

HP Software Support

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