BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware

Release Notes for v2.7.26

This document describes changes and updates that have occurred since the release of BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware v2.7.17.

What's New

•The product is fully compatible with BMC Portal 2.9.00 (RSM 64 bits)

•The supported versions 2.5.xx and higher will be automatically upgraded to 2.7.26.

•The following new connectors have been included in version 2.7.26:

•Adaptec Storman - RAID

•Brocade SAN Switch

•Cisco UCS Manager (Blade, Fabric Interconnect Switch)

•Data Domain Storage Appliance - SNMP Agent

•Dell EqualLogic PS Series

•Hitachi BladeSymphony Chassis

•HP Insight Management Agent Fiber - Array

•HP Insight Management Agent - Network

•HP Insight Management Agent (v8.20 or lower) - Memory

•HP Insight Management Agent (v8.25 or higher) - Memory

•HP MSA 2000 & P2000

•HP-UX - Smart Array RAID

•IBM Director Agent 6 - Linux

•IBM Director Agent 6 - Windows

•IBM DS (LSI) Disk Arrays (smcli)

•IBM VIO Server

•Intel Base Board 5 Motherboards

•Intel Modular Server

•Linux - Emulex HBAs (hbacmd)

•Linux - Multipath

•Linux - QLogic HBAs (scli)

•LSI MegaCli

•MegaCLI Managed Raid Controllers

•SMI-S Compliant RAID Controller - Linux

•SMI-S Compliant RAID Controller - Windows

•SPARC Enterprise Mx000 (XSCF)

•VMware ESXi4i - Disks (IPMI)

•VMware ESXi4i- Disks (VMware)

•VMware ESXi 3.x

•VMware ESXi 4.x

•WMI - HBA

As a result, the following platforms and devices are not supported:

•Cisco UCS Manager (Blade, Fabric Interconnect Switch)

•Data Domain Storage Appliance

•Dell EqualLogic PS Series

•Hitachi BladeSymphony Chassis

•HP MSA 2000 & P2000

•IBM Director Agent 6

•IBM DS 3000/4000/5000 Series Disk Arrays

•IBM VIO Server

•Intel Modular Server

•MegaCLI-Managed RAID Controllers

•SPARC Enterprise Mx000 (XSCF)

•VMware ESXi4i

Changes and Improvements

•WBEM client: The WBEM client has been optimized to offer better performances.

•Brocade SAN Switch: Ports are now properly identified and located

•HP Smart Array: The fiber direct-attached disk arrays have their environment fully monitored

•HP ProLiant: NIC Teaming is now  fully supported

•HP-UX: Support for Smart Array RAID sets has been added

•IBM xSeries: Support for the version 6 of the IBM Director Agent has been added on Linux and Windows

•HBA:

•Support for Emulex and QLogic HBA cards has been added on Linux

•Support for all FC adapters has been added on Windows

Fixed Issues

The following problems were reported in earlier releases and have been corrected in this release.

•SSH/TELNET:

▪In previous versions, the SSH or TELNET protocol for connections could not be explicitly selected as the Force SSH and Force TELNET RSM variables were not properly taken into account by the product.

▪The availability of the SSH and Telnet protocol on a Storage or Other element type is assessed with just the ability to establish a connection to the host, and without actually running any shell command. This avoids the unpredictable behavior of certain shell commands on devices not designed to handle such commands (and notably the lack of proper closure of the connection).

•SNMP Trap port: A conflict could occur when BMC Performance Manager Express for Server and BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware were being loaded on the same RSM. As both applications rely on the SNMP stack developed by Westhawk, custom settings, and particularly the Trap port configuration, were not correctly considered. To solve this issue, the Trap section has been disabled in the SNMP code of BMC Performance Manager for Hardware.

•WBEM client - Password length: The maximum number of characters allowed for the WBEM client password is now limited to 100 characters.

•Sun Solaris: The temperature metrics were not displayed for Solaris servers.

•SNMP walk: An exception occurred while performing the SNMP walk command. Debug information were therefore missing.

•SSH enabled systems: An issue had been identified with the password prompts of any SSH enabled system that has a non-English OS. This issue prevented the RSM to connect to the SSH enabled system.