Patches

P1228: Improving Sun SPARC Servers Monitoring

Aug 01, 2011
Patch for BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware - Version(s) 2.7.00,2.7.03,2.7.05,2.7.13,2.7.17,2.7.26

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Connectors for Sun SPARC Servers

Should you install this patch?

Apply this patch if one of the following conditions applies to you:

  • you are seeing additional non-Sun computer enclosures appearing and the ipmitool connector is activating on a sun4v system (Sun SPARC T1, T2-based)
  • you are getting intermittent false alerts for Memory, Voltages, Temperatures or Fans devices when monitoring Sun SPARC systems using the prtpicl connector
  • you are having issues with missing objects / no collect values errors / too many prtpicl processes being created.

This patch replaces P1215 and P1139 patches

What does it fix?

  • Disables the ipmitool connector on sun4v servers. Monitoring for these types of servers is performed using prtpicl or the Sun snapshot utility.
  • Adds a detection criterion to monitor the number of prtpicl processes. A large number of prtpicl processes indicate that the prtld service has failed which leads to no collect values / missing device alerts.

How to install the patch?

Copy the following files to %RSM_HOME%\RSMxx\SEN_HW\hdf_27xx\ on each RSM:

  • MS_HW_SunPrtdiag.hdf
  • MS_HW_SunPrtpicl.hdf