XCAT_2.7.4_Release_Notes

New Function and Changes in Behavior

• SLES 11 SP2 support on System x and System p servers
• Firmware assisted dump support for Power 775 servers
• Support for IBM Flex system x compute nodes
• Improved IPMI reliability and performance for large systems (~5,000 servers in 30 seconds)
• The statelite "litetree" table now supports a mount options attribute.

Key Bug fixes

• updatenode -F and xdcp -F could not handle hierarchical running synclists when the nodes on the Service Node did not have the same synclist. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3552171&group_id=208749&atid=1006945
• Document procedure for changing HMC password. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3549975&group_id=208749&atid=1006945
• xdcp entire directory copy in a hierarchical environment did not work. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3538653&group_id=208749&atid=1006945
• Support multiple commands in the commands attribute of the policy table. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3530574&group_id=208749&atid=1006945
• Should not set conserver to start on reboot during upgrade of xCAT. This should be done only once during install. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3510989&group_id=208749&atid=1006945
• PMR 29187,066,866: lsslp wrong output. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3554903&group_id=208749&atid=1006945
• For the rest of the bug fixes in 2.7.4, see the list of 2.7.4 bugs fixed.

Restrictions and Known Problems

• After you reset, restart a CMM or update CMM firmware, you shall run the command "rspconfig cmm sshcfg=enable snmpcfg=enable" to avoid the 'Unsupported security level' issue.
• Issue with nfs-based statelite on x86_64 SLES 11 SP2, the statelite nodes could not boot up, with error "mount.nfs: Protocol not supported". See https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3558922&group_id=208749&atid=1006945 for more details and the workaroud.
• The installation of the xCAT-IBMhpc-2.7.4-snap201208232241.noarch rpm will fail on Linux unless you have ksh installed. See defect https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3563735&group_id=208749&atid=1006945