Remote Supervisor Adapter II Firmware update - IBM eServer xSeries 235

Download Description

New IBM xSeries firmware and device driver file naming convention

Severity: Suggested

Version 1.08 - GRE836C

Problem(s) Fixed:

• Improved the handling of invalid network data to make the Remote Supervisor Adapter II more robust
  
• Corrected the IP address reported in the Service Location Protocol data. When one of the "dot" fields is set to 0, the RSA II previously reported the address field as "000" instead of just "0". IBM Director will not recognize IP addresses reported with multiple 0's ("000") in the fields
  
• Corrected a condition where the remote client console appeared to freeze when the servers was displaying constantly scrolling text
  
• Corrected a problem where the DHCP lease does not get renewed when the DHCP server is not on the same subnet mask/network as the RSA II
  
• Corrected a problem that caused the Remote Supervisor Adapter II to not aquire a new DHCP IP address when the old IP address is lost
  
• Corrected a caching problem that caused LDAP DNS look-ups to fail
  
• Corrected a problem that intermittently caused the Remote Supervisor Adapter II to not respond to SNMP requests if the Remote Supervisor Adapter II is sent multiple SNMP requests while being reset.
  

Enhancement:

• Added support for the year 2007 US Daylight Saving Time changes
• Added a feature to lockout the command line interface for a period of time after 5 unsuccessful login attempts.
  
• Added support for md2WithRSAEncryption certificates
• Added support to authenticate through LDAP using an account that has the display name and SAMAccount name set to different values.
  
• Added French-Canadian keyboard support
• Changed maximum size of login string from 32 to 64 to support longer UPN or DN names.
  
• 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.
  

Limitations: N/A

Version 1.07 - GRE834A

• Stopped generating the periodic SMIs used for Machine Check Architecture support

Version 1.06 - GRE833A

• Corrected a problem where the server could become non-responsive 76 days after the Remote Supervisor Adapter II has been reset.
• Allow BIOS to disable the periodic SMIs that are generated by the Remote Supervisor Adapter II.

Version 1.05 - GRE832A

• Added SSH support
• Added DNS support for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
• Enhanced the command line interface
• Allow dashes for the ASM Group Filter Name under the LDAP configuration.

Version 1.04

• Restore Network Protocol Settings when flashing from earlier firmware levels to this one.

Version 1.03

• Added LDAP security fixes
• Changed the remote disk port number from 4444 to 1044
• Added to readme that Red Hat Linux does not support multi-lun USB functionality
• Corrected an issue where a connection could not be made via ASM interconnect when SSL is enabled
• Corrected a problem where remote recipient data was not restored properly using the configuration restore utility
• Removed SSH ports assignment using SNMP
• Changed a power nonredundant state to a warning from an informational alert
• Implemented an event log entry to notify in a case of CPU/VRM mismatch
• Disabled a command which shows non-pertinent CPU/Memory configuration
• Fixed a problem where the event log entries failed to show after using severity filter
• Fixed a problem with remote OS installation where mouse cursor is lost
• Corrected a problem with rebooting the ASM corrupting settings
• Fixed an issue where the Remote control screen did not close
• Fixed a problem where video was lost after canceling remote disk image
• Stopped a USB memory device from mounting as a CD ROM drive
• Fixed a problem with the ASM not detecting an analog modem connected to the serial port
• Removed the dialback command from the supported command list
• Fixed a problem with remote graphics over a PPP connection
• Fixed a problem that caused the ASM to reset when the Security link on the Web interface was clicked
• Fixed a problem where the Windows blue screen capture would fail
• Improved the recovery procedure for an ASM interconnect bus hang
• Added support for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
• Added support for the Blue Identification LED
• Added Remote Disk Multi Drive Support
• Added Serial Console Redirection capability
• Added support for the Belgian keyboard
• Corrected an ethernet connection problem
• Fixed the save and restoration of the ISMP gateway setting

Version 1.02

• Corrected the remote disk feature which would not work if it was run with a Japanese user name
• Fixed a condition where alerts would not be generated after the system recovered from a CPU over temperature or system over voltage condition
• Added SNMP command support
• Added support for French, Italian, German, Spanish and UK keyboards

Version 1.01

• Provided the numeric pager alerts with different codes to distinguish faults from recoveries
• Corrected the firmware to recognize recoveries from ISMP detected faults on other systems connected via the ASM interconnect

Version 1.00

• Initial release