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Symptoms corrected by the latest Netfinity Advanced System Management drivers - Servers

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Symptoms corrected by the latest ASM drivers

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Change history

Symptoms corrected by Version 1.25

  • For xSeries server models 220, 232 and 342 running Windows NT, Windows 2000, Novell NetWare, or SCO UnixWare with the Remote Supervisor Adapter installed: A minor update was made to the IBM Advanced System Management device drivers to support a change in the firmware that runs the Remote Supervisor Adapter. These new drivers are also compatible with earlier versions of the Remote Supervisor Adapter.
Symptoms corrected by version 1.24
  • For all xSeries and Netfinity server models running Windows 2000 with service processor hardware installed: Added a setup utility program for use in upgrading or installing the drivers. See the Windows 2000 installation topic in section 3 below.

  • For xSeries 232 and 342 servers running NetWare without the Remote Supervisor Adapter, and for xSeries 300 servers running NetWare: The IBM Advanced System Management device driver for Novell NetWare now supports the Automatic Server Restart (ASR) feature on these servers. The driver automatically detects the ASR hardware so no additional installation steps are necessary from those listed in the NetWare installation topic in section 3 below.

Symptoms corrected by version 1.23

  • Added support for future IBM xSeries servers.

Symptoms corrected by version 1.22

  • For xSeries 330 servers running Microsoft Windows 2000 with the Remote Supervisor Adapter:
    Fixed a bug that could cause Windows 2000 to crash.

  • For xSeries 232 and 342 servers running Microsoft Windows NT 4 without the Remote Supervisor Adapter, and for xSeries 300 servers running Windows NT 4:
    After driver installation, these servers need to be rebooted to start the ASR driver. See the note in the Windows NT 4 installation topic in section 3 below.

  • For xSeries 232 and 342 servers running Windows 2000 without the Remote Supervisor Adapter, and for xSeries 300 servers running Windows 2000:
    To enable the Automatic Server Restart feature, a special asrsetup.exe routine needs to be executed. See the Windows 2000 installation topic in section 3 below.

  • For xSeries 220 servers running Novell NetWare 5.1 with Support Pack 2, and the Remote Supervisor Adapter:
    A code bug that prevented the IBM Advanced System Management device driver for Novell NetWare from running properly, has been fixed.

  • For xSeries 220 servers running Windows NT or Windows 2000 with the Remote Supervisor Adapter:
    The Remote Supervisor Adapter can now perform a graceful shutdown off the host operating system without requiring a management application, such as IBM Director, or Netfinity Director running on the server.

Symptoms corrected by version 1.21

  • For xSeries 220 servers running Windows 2000 with the Remote Supervisor Adapter:
    There are new drivers installation and update instructions included within this README.TXT file.

  • For xSeries 220 servers running NetWare:
    Changes have been made to the Automatic Server Restart (ASR) device driver to properly enable the ASR hardware circuit.

Symptoms corrected by version 1.20

  • For all server models running Windows 2000 or Windows NT-4: Changes have been made to the device driver installation instructions in this readme.txt file.
  • Support was added for future IBM xSeries servers.

Symptoms corrected by version 1.19

For Netfinity Server models 4500R, 5000, 5100, 5500, 5500-M10, 5500-M20, 5600, 6000R, 7000-M10, 7100, 7600 or 8500R running SCO Unixware:

  • Support was added for non interactive installation and removal of the device driver. For more information, please refer to the installation instructions for SCO Unixware in this document.

For Netfinity Server models 4500R, 5000, 5100, 5500, 5500-M10, 5500-M20, 5600, 6000R, 7100, or 7600 that have the IBM Advanced System Management PCI Adapter installed, and are running Windows 2000:

  • A cosmetic change was made to the IBM Advanced System Management PCI Adapter item in the System Devices list under Device Manager to remove the "yellow bang" symbol that incorrectly indicated the card was not operating properly.

Symptoms corrected by version 1.17

  • Added support for future IBM servers.

For Netfinity Server models 4500R, 5000, 5100, 5500, 5500-M10, 5500-M20, 5600, 6000R, 7000-M10, 7100, 7600 or 8500R running SCO Unixware:

  • When the service processor device drivers are installed in SCO Unixware, the installation script modified the permissions of /tmp directory. This problem has been corrected in this release.

Symptoms corrected by version 1.16

For Netfinity Server models 5000, 5500, 5500-M10, 5500-M20, 5600, 7000-M10, 7100R, 7600 or 8500R running SCO Unixware:

  • Support was added for Advanced Systems Management Extensions Tool for Netfinity Director. This driver upgrade is required in order to support Netfinity Director version 2.12 (or later) with the Advanced Systems Management Extensions Tool version 1.1 (or later).

Symptoms corrected by version 1.15

  • Support was added for future Netfinity servers.

For Netfinity Server models 5000, 5500, 5500-M10, 5500-M20, 5600, 7000-M10, 7100R, 7600 or 8500R running SCO Unixware:

  • If the PANICBOOT=YES was defined in /etc/default/init, then the unloading of the service processor device driver was preventing an automatic reboot when a kernel panic was experienced.

Symptoms corrected by version 1.14

For Netfinity Server models 5000, 5500, 5500-M10, 5500-M20, 5600 running Windows 2000:

  • This code solves a problem where the service processor device driver fails to shut down properly during unattended installation.

Symptoms corrected by version 1.13

For Netfinity Server models 7000-M10 or 8500R running SCO Unixware:

  • The service processor device driver has been upgraded to support Unixware 7.1.1.

For Netfinity Server models 5000, 5500, 5500-M10, 5500-M20, 5600 running Microsoft Windows 2000:

  • The service processor device driver was not allowing the Microsoft HCT Driver Verifier test to shut down when it completed, causing the test to be logged as failed. This has been fixed.

Symptoms corrected by version 1.12
For Netfinity Server models 5000, 5500, 5500-M10, 5500-M20, 5600 running Microsoft Windows 2000:

  • The service processor device driver was unable to interface with the systems management device upon return from a state of hibernation.
  • Alert notifications being sent to the host were not being received by the service processor device driver.
Symptoms corrected by version 1.11
For Netfinity Server models 5000, 5500, 5500-M10, 5500-M20, or 5600 running SCO/Unixware:
  • Fixed a symptom regarding improper handling of data passed back to Netfinity Manager whenever multiple alerts are generated. If this new driver is not installed, there is a possibility that a kernel panic may occur.
Symptoms corrected by version 1.10
For Netfinity Server models 5000, 5500, 5500-M10, 5500-M20 or 5600 running OS/2 or Novell NetWare:
  • The service processor device driver interrupt handler has been improved for these two operating systems.
  • The service processor device drivers are loaded shortly after an operating system boots up, and there may be an opportunity for spurious interrupts to occur before the driver and service processor hardware are fully initialized. To better handle the rare occurrences of these interrupts, improvements have been made to the initialization piece of the NetWare and OS/2 service processor drivers.
For Netfinity Server models 5000, 5500, 5500-M10, 5500-M20, 5600, 7000-M10 or 8500R Microsoft Windows 2000:
  • Service processor device drivers have been added to support Windows 2000. Please refer to the installation instructions below for installing these drivers on Windows 2000.

Version 1.00 is the initial release of the drivers.

 

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Modified date:
23 January 2019

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