Remote Supervisor Adapter Firmware update - IBM eServer xSeries 255

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New IBM xSeries firmware and device driver file naming convention

New firmware update file formats

Version 1.08, AVET26A

Problem(s) Fixed:

• Corrected a problem where incorrect power supply status could be sent to IBM Director when there was difficulty communicating with the power backplane controller possibly resulting in a false IBM Director power fault.
  

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• Added support for the year 2007 US Daylight Saving Time changes
  
• Added Daylight Saving Time support for western Australia Dependencies:

Version 1.07, AVET25B

Problem(s) Fixed:

• Corrected a counter problem that could result in a server clock skew in certain IBM Director environments.
  
• Fixed a Maximum Segment Size negotiation problem on the network interface which could have prevented oversized data packets from being delivered.
  
• Corrected a problem which caused the Remote Supervisor Adapter to not renew its DHCP lease when the DHCP server is not on the same subnet mask/network as the Remote Supervisor Adapter.
  
• Fixed a problem which caused the Remote Supervisor Adapter not to reaquire a new IP address when the former address is lost.
  
• Corrected a problem that caused the Remote Supervisor Adapter to report the final hours of April 30th in certain time zones as April 31st
  

Enhancement:

• Allow dashes in the LDAP ASM Group Filter Name
• Increased the time to live to 128 on all packets from the Remote Supervisor Adapter to accommodate an increased number of network hops.
  

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Version 1.06, AVET25A

Problem(s) Fixed:

• Corrected the MIB files to work with HP Openview.
  

Enhancement:

• Added VRM status bit monitoring.
  
• Added the ISMP gateway setting to the save/restore configuration feature.
  

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Version 1.05, AVET24A

Problem(s) Fixed:

Enhancement:

• Removed the ISMP and power backplane firmware packets from the diskette. The DMCFLASH.PKT file is now located on the ISMP firmware update diskette.
  

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Version 1.04, AVET23A

Problem(s) Fixed:

• Corrected an issue storing the administrator password
  

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Version 1.03, AVET22A

Problem(s) Fixed:

• Corrected an issue where temperatures and voltages were not being displayed over an ASM interconnection
  
• Fixed a problem where an early power off warning was being reported twice over an ASM interconnection
  
• Prevented the telnet login screen from displaying during a remote graphics session
  
• Corrected a problem where "firmware update" was given as a popup help screen when "remote boot" was in progress
  

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Version 1.02, AVET20A

Problem(s) Fixed:

• Changed ANSI interface to be consistent with other interfaces with respect to VRM voltage reporting
  
• Prevented certain voltages from showing when the server is powered off
  
• Alerted user to manually disable ASF if the Remote Supervisor Adapter is present
  

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Version 1.01, AVET18A

Problem(s) Fixed:

• Corrected drive numbers reported over ASM interconnect
  
• Corrected drive backplane temperature alerting over ASM interconnect
  
• Corrected DIMM slot number reporting
  
• Fixed a problem using remote video in 256 color mode
  
• Removed reference to drive backplane 3 and 4 over ASM interconnect
  
• Fixed ethernet driver interrupt masking problem
  

Enhancement:

• Added ambient temperature reporting over ASM interconnect
  

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Version 1.00, AVET16A

• Initial release