4.1.1-TIV-ITSAMP-FP0001, Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms

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4.1.1-TIV-ITSAMP-FP0001, Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms

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Abstract

This fix pack includes all fixes completed since the release of 4.1, and support for new operating systems.

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New operating system support from 4.1.0

Fix pack FP0001 introduces the support for the following operating systems: 
- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 
- Ubuntu 14.04 (on System x and Power Systems)

Fix pack FP0002 introduces the support for the following operating system: 
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.1 on Power Systems (Little Endian) 

Fix pack FP0003 introduces the support for the following operating system: 
- AIX 7.2 

Fix pack FP0004 introduces the support for the following operating system: 
- Ubuntu 16.04 (on System x and Power Systems)

Fix pack FP0005 introduces the support for the following operating system: 
- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 
- Ubuntu 18.04 (on System x and Power Systems)

Fix pack FP0006 introduces the support for the following operating system: 
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 
- Ubuntu 20.04 (on System x and Power Systems)

Fix pack FP0007 introduces the support for the following operating system: 
- AIX 7.2 TL5

Fix pack 4.1.1.0 introduces the support for the following operating systems:

 - AIX 7.3 TL0

Fix pack 4.1.1.1 introduces the support for the following operating systems:

- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 

- Ubuntu 22.04 (on System x and Power Systems)

Improved high availability policy for SAP in SAMP 4.1.0

FP0001 enhances the supported SAP configuration options with Double stack support for SAP Central Services failover.
FP0002 enhances the supported SAP configuration options with SAP HANA System Replication failover.

Functional enhancements

FP0001 and FP0002 provide improvements to the command ‘samwhy’.

FP0002 introduces the command ‘samcc’, which can be used as operations console on the command line interface.

FP0005 added support for SAP NetWeaver 7.5.3 ENSA2.

FP0006 added support for SAP NetWeaver S/4HANA 1909 ENSA2 and Oracle 19C.

FP0007 added support for SAP NetWeaver S/4HANA 2020 and SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 05 Revision 050.

TSAMP 4.1.1 Fix pack FP0001 includes the following new fixes

IJ47066: HCPPLS1649E SET SSI command was rejected by another member of the SSI cluster

IJ46143: xdrwatchdog failing to start on new install of xDR

IJ45413: SAMX0141W + SAMX0140W issued by xdrverifycfg after a HyperSwap with no IPL

IJ44783: why move operation is not working for one of the RG

IJ34836: SAMCC OUT OF MEMORY                 

Fixes already included from previous fix packs

IJ40191: MKEQU : 2622-287 , SHADOW EQUIVALNECY ISSUE WHILE CREATING

              FLOATING/CONCURRENT RESOURCES WITHIN THE CLUSTER

IJ41307: GDPS - xDR - XDRMONITOR not detecting usage of crashkernel for RHEL8 proxy guests of z/VM

IJ42295: GDPS - xDR - New Function to provide support for z/VM version 7.3 8-member SSI

IJ44401: GDPS - xDR - Active Path group for z/VM volumes following Freeze action

IJ22892: NODES WAS RE-INCLUDED AFTER BEING EXCLUDED--xDR proxy server failed to shutdown

IJ28153: GDPS - xDR - xdrverifycfg giving warning message SAMX0126W

IJ28914: GDPS - xDR - z/VM dump volumes not draining after hyperswap

IJ28977: Need info on the TSAMP relevant parameters to be added to the S4HANA relevant SAP Profile files

IJ29782: Coverity defects reported on the delta code between SAMP 4103 and 4106

IJ29808: Msg "Unable to upgrade the RSCT packages observed" during normal installation

IJ30865: GDPS - xDR - xdrverifycfg command yields inconsistent results

IJ30872: GDPS - xDR - z/VM shutdown phase 3 not completing

IJ31032: Getsadata script modification- Enable Rsyslog/syslog-ng collection

IJ31172: GDPS - xDR - GEO595A LOST proxy when Sysadm logs on

IJ32084: why running sampolicy -c against new backup of the existing policy came up with error.

IJ32953: why samlog command shows no output ($ rgreq -o lock 64RG) since TSA upgrade to 4.1.0.6.

IJ33282: GDPS - xDR - HCPQPS009E Invalid range seen for command Q PATHS TO

IJ01485: IBM.RECOVERYRM subsystem abnormality due to incorrect locking mechanism

IJ02418: Failure of TSAMP daemons with RSCT 3.2.3.0

IJ02655: xDR xdr.monitorhealth fails with: Error: Could not issue CP command: Cannot allocate memory

IJ02757: Registering the aggregate resource with RMC events leads to race condition

IJ04781: SAMTB_NET script (network tiebreaker) does not honor postreservewaittime

IJ04798: xDR HyperSwap quiesce phase fails for z/VM systems

IJ05884: Issue in cloud TB. Failover is not happening.

IJ06476: z/vm live guest relocation problem

IJ06997: prereqSAM fails in RHEL 7.5 with SAMP 4104

IJ07267: prereqSAM fails on RHEL7.4

IJ08055: Error Creating NFSv4 IBM.TieBreaker Resource

IJ08451: SA MP does not behave the way xDR and GDPS, Excluded node re-included

IJ08454: Setting manual mode while domain offline procedure does not work

IJ08486: xDR stop z/vm processing stop z/vm task started from the GDPS panel ends with takeover prompt and messages geo287i/geo288a

IJ08784: lssam hangs after restarting domain

IJ10501: when GDPS live guest relocation script ends with message geo117i in some cases the reason is not reported in SDF

IJ12208: prereqSAM check for installation package is not appropriate

IJ12620: Large delay in online phase of move request

IJ15710: xDR - long running xdrmonitor could interfere with other command

IJ15783: xDR - z/vm proxies stay excluded after stop + reipl via gdps

IJ17921: z/VM production guest in error status in GDPS panel

IJ19103: xDR support for xdrgetlogs and xdrstatus

IJ19104: xDR support for Fixed Block volumes

IJ19774: prereqSAM fails if x86_64 folder is renamed or deleted on ppc64le machine

IJ20945: SAMP 4.1.0.5 PrereqSAM, InstallSAM fails on SLES version check

IJ21051: problems with devices in subchannel set 0 and 1

IJ22262: GEO2740W for secondary devices online to z/VM

IJ23603: Non-root user’s /etc/security/limits.conf ignored, root’s limits file used instead

IJ23674: Support for RHEV 4.3

IJ24077: TSA upgrade failed on alternate ROOTVG while domain is online for AIX

IJ24230: TSAMP4105 package installSAM fails on the SUSE SLES 15 SP1

IJ24954: improve performance of prepare/enable command with z/VM

IJ25135: "Unable to load module: No such file or directoryn at /opt/rsct/bin/samtb_net line 262" when configuring TSA network tiebr

IJ27260: dump configuration with z/VM is failing with rc=4

IJ27925: issues with shutdown of z/VM image from GDPS

IV54979: Java runtime environment (jre) not accepted as a valid java component during TSAMP installation on AIX 7

IV56138: Restart of resources due to incomplete resource configuration and late OpState events

IV59186: In SA MP 4.1 the “samadapter stop” command fails to stop samadapter cleanly

IV60433: SA MP 4.1, NFS & Oracle HA policy wizard: harvesting of network interfaces not working 

IV60461: Move request does not offline resources that are in an “Uknown” state but will still Online them on the destination node

IV60981: Filesystem resources may end up in Failed Offline due to a race condition between mounting filesystems and varying on the volume group

IV60984: SAP HA Feature not working with SAP NetWeaver 7.02 (START_* profiles)

IV61171: RG move request causes all resources in another RG to be offlined if a ForcedDownBy relationship exists.

IV61398: Trace spooling file sizes set to small in trace.conf

IV61430: Binder discard for a resource that is supposed to be online. This results in an unwanted Offline order for the resource.

IV62182: After using db2haicu to setup a domain the first failover test does not succeed. Subsequent failovers are successful

IV62518: xDR MonitorHealth has been aborted in node XXXXX system (XXXXX) rc: 9

IV64057: setupAdapterNonRoot.sh : 0403-057 syntax error at line 386 : ‘else’ is not matched.

IV65499: Resource in Stuck_Online changes to Pending_Offline when it is tried to stop

IV65784: addrgmbr command cause IBM.RecoveryRM crash

IV65980: rgreq command is successful also for non-existing resource groups

IV66405: ValidSelectResources not updated for static equivalency after adding or removing members, until master is forced to swap

IV67468: After creating a relationship from a resource to an equivalency the equivalency shows OpState=Unknown

IV67806: lssam hangs during check for IBM.ResourceGroup

IV67842: xDR support within GDPS Virtual Appliance

IV67987: xDR code needs to be updated if z/VM SPE VM65544 is installed

IV68371: SA MP v4.1 SAP policy doesn’t tolerate the auto-restart of sapstartsrv, but it should. Affects failover after node rejoin

IV68577: Application binary killed when a SIGKILL command is sent to the parent (StartCommand)

IV69011: Floating resources not handled correctly when found Online on multiple nodes – a force down not taken into consideration

IV69014: “KILL -11” or SIGSEGV does not terminate IBM.RecoveryRM

IV69151: installSAM does not give info to missing filesets and packages

IV70650: Export policy via “sampolicy -s” adds a wrong attribute ‘useWildcard=”false”’

IV70996: When OperationalFlags set to 8152 members of equivalencies with dynamic selection may disappear

IV71484: installSAM attempts to install RSCT filesets when installed RSCT level is higher than on installation media

IV71778: IBM.RecoveryRMd: Segmentation violation during activation or deactivation of a large policy

IV71899: Online resources detected after rebooted node joins the domain are not stopped

IV72223: GblResRM crashes due to frequency and duration of MonitorCommand executions

IV72263: After a z/VM restart, the communication between GDPS and the xDR proxy is not working reliably.

IV73411: All resource constituents reported Online on a node that has just rejoined the cluster (spurious Online detection

IV73413: Engine starts evaluating its resource set (and will be sending out orders) although relationship targets are not yet known.

IV73470: Resource groups remain in status “Control=Undefined” with OperationalFlags=8152

IV73483: ForceDown of a source resource for a DependsOn is prevented because another group depends on this source resource

IV73787: In large domains with more than 31 nodes, resources will not be started on one of the nodes

IV74505: xDR support for GDPS Multi-Target Metro Mirror (MTMM)

IV74535: xDR: GDPS configuration attempt fails

IV74701: lssam command output error 2612-023

IV74988: Command sequence switch on automatic mode and include node lead to problems starting resource

IV75444: Relationship does not work properly with IBM.PeerNode

IV77380: The automation manager might work incorrect between migration to SA MP 4.1.0.2 and next subsequent domain restart

IV77608: GDPS/PPRC xDR support for single parm disk

IV77897: samlog formats trace files with different time zones taken from the specific trace file being formatted

IV78570: java directory on Linux not accessible for non-root users

IV78635: lssam output shows aggregate resources listed after the constituent resources

IV78958: Unable to start samadapter, IBM.RecoveryRM generates errors in syslog/errpt

IV79695: GDPS/PPRC xDR support for SLES12 and RHEL7 on z/VM proxy guests

IV79856: SAP HA: kill of en not moving (A)SCS to ERS in case there is an additional StopAfter relationship to the (A)SCS RG

IV80408: Included node still on the internal exclude list

IV80921: RecoveryRM core dump on the ‘non-master’ node when stopping the domain by force

IV81075: SAP HA Feature: incorrect OpStates reported on SLES 12

IV81538: IBM.RecoveryRM and lssam might hang due to a race condition

IV81612: GEO561I Hyperswap phase 3 unsuccessful – quiesce failed in at least one system error

IV82656: SAP HA policy support for more than 2 nodes

IV82913: StartAfter behavior with non-controllable Equivalency incorrect

IV83882: samadapter does not connect to System Automation Application Manager when switching master node

IV84001: Creation of IBM.ServiceIP resources with an incorrect IP address should reject

IV84291: GDPS command timeout with messages like: GEOTRC AUTGEO MPFZS PI36878-VPCLHSMO: Seqnr_Wait1: XDR Healthmonitor

IV84629: Enhancements for setupAdapterNonRoot.sh to avoid manual steps when setting up the non-root samadapter

IV84763: SAMX0003E: xDR: xdrmon: could not open file /var/xdr/pprcdevices, error=No such file or directory

IV84990: Running verifyConfig function ‘twice in parallel’ result in incorrect initialized resources

IV86747: lssam resource display issue when resources names differ only by a trailing ‘0’

IV87849: DB2 pureScale: restart of ‘primary’ resource delayed by 15 minutes after connection to disk is disabled

IV88359: TSAMP fails to handle situation when vg is online/active on both nodes properly

IV88598: Gap for xDR heartbeat misses during GEO112E takeover prompt too high by 30 seconds

IV89663: xDR GDPS Virtual Appliance support for the CMSKSYS feature

IV89782: Invalid heartbeat events sent to the K-systems

IV89923: Control=Planned status when starting/moving RG

IV90349: xDR xdr watchdog service cannot be started after reboot

IV91510: If domain is in Maintenance Mode, SAP tools cannot be used to start/stop SAP instances

IV92419: xDR incorrect trigger sent to K-system for PPRC summary event notification in multi-target metro mirror environment

IV93268: The node include/exclude from automation can lead to a race condition where node stays excluded

IV93475: Cleanup processing set to failed when node failed

IV94076: xDR support for GDPS 3.14 and the feature GDPS managed z/VM dump volume reconfiguration
IV94498: xDR z/VM images not getting hyperswap enabled

IV95845: Incorrect prereqsam detection for java package

IV97314: xDR error messages seen in proxy syslog for xdrverifycfg like: UserID missing in output of Q SIGNALS

IV97373: xDR support for additional parameter MAXQUIESCE used with live guest relocation of z/VM guests

IV97644: Cleanup and subsequent failover fails when resource went offline in db2 purescale

IV97793: Improper ‘cleanup reset’ cycle in the db2 purescale cluster

IV98376: xDR support for GDPS/MGM MT 3 site single leg mtmm support

IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition included/required

The Linux packages include the following level:

- IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition 8.0.8.10

On AIX, a 32-bit version of IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition 8 is required with the following minimum Service Refresh levels:

- IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition 8.0.8.10   (AIX package: Java8.jre/Java8.sdk 8.0.0.810)

Supported OS platforms and RSCT levels shipped with System Automation for Multiplatforms 4.1

Prerequisites

Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms 4.1.

Installation instructions

The first step before installing 'System Automation' is to view the 'Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms 4.1 Installation and Configuration Guide'. The current version can be found within the deliverable under /docs/SAMP-Inst-Config-Guide.pdf.
The latest version of the product documentation is available at the IBM Docs: System Automation for Multiplatforms 4.1 documentation.

Before you install System Automation or upgrade from a previous version you are advised to read chapter Installing.

Follow the appropriate installation instructions:

If any previous SA MP FP 4.1.1.x is already installed:

Installing service for SA MP

If SA MP is not installed:

Installing on new operating systems

RSCT documentation

The documentation for RSCT is also included within each deliverable in subdirectory /docs.

RSCT Administration Guide:      RSCT-Admin-Guide.pdf 
RSCT Technical Reference for Multiplatforms:    RSCT-Tech-Ref-MP.pdf 
RSCT Technical Reference for AIX:     RSCT-Tech-Ref-AIX.pdf 
RSCT Messages:        RSCT-Message-Ref.pdf 
RSCT Diagnosis Guide:       RSCT-Diag-Guide.pdf

To access all RSCT documentation, refer to the IBM Knowledge Center at RSCT documentation.

Download package

Below table contains the FixCentral links to download the packages. The tar file SAMP4111_Verification_Signatures.tar.gz contains the GaraSign signatures and the public key to verify the SAMP 4111 packages.

Problems (APARs) fixed
IJ47066, IJ46143, IJ45413, IJ44783, IJ34836, IV54979, IV56138, IV59186, IV60433, IV60461, IV60981, IV60984, IV61171, IV61398, IV61430, IV62182, IV62518, IV64057, IV65499, IV65784, IV65980, IV66405, IV67468, IV67806, IV67842, IV67987, IV68371, IV68577, IV69011, IV69014, IV69151, IV70650, IV70996, IV71484, IV71778, IV71899, IV72223, IV72263, IV73411, IV73413, IV73470, IV73483, IV73787, IV74505, IV74535, IV74701, IV74988, IV75444, IV77380, IV77608, IV77897, IV78570, IV78635, IV78958, IV79695, IV79856, IV80408, IV80921, IV81075, IV81538, IV81612, IV82656, IV82913, IV83882, IV84001, IV84291, IV84629, IV84763, IV84990, IV86747, IV87849, IV88359, IV88598, IV89663, IV89782, IV89923, IV90349, IV91510, IV92419, IV93268, IV93475, IV94076, IV94498, IV95845, IV97314, IV97373, IV97644, IV97793, IV98376, IJ01485, IJ02418, IJ02655, IJ02757, IJ04781, IJ04798, IJ05884, IJ06476, IJ06997, IJ07267, IJ08055, IJ08451, IJ08454, IJ08486, IJ08784, IJ10501, IJ12208, IJ12620, IJ15710, IJ15783, IJ17921, IJ19103, IJ19104, IJ19774, IJ20945, IJ21051, IJ22262, IJ22892, IJ23603, IJ23674, IJ24077, IJ24230, IJ24954, IJ25135, IJ27260, IJ27925, IJ28153, IJ28914, IJ28977, IJ29782, IJ29808, IJ30865, IJ30872, IJ31032, IJ31172, IJ32084, IJ32953, IJ33282, IJ40191, IJ41307, IJ42295, IJ44401