Remote Supervisor Adapter II Firmware Update (Microsoft Windows package) - IBM eServer xSeries 365

Download Description

New firmware update file formats

New IBM xSeries firmware and device driver file naming convention

1. The IBM eServer xSeries 365 POST/BIOS Flash should be at version 1.02, Build ID:RDJT21A, revision 02 or later.
2. Before flashing Remote Supervisor Adapter II Firmware Update version 1.00, shutdown the operating system first, as the xSeries 365 will power off and restart after the DMCflash.
   
   

Version 1.10, RDE833B
Note: Contains fix for year 2007 US Daylight Saving Time changes.

Problem(s) Fixed:
Enhancement:

• Added support for the year 2007 US Daylight Saving Time changes.

Limitations:
Dependencies:

Version 1.09 - RDE833A

Problem(s) Fixed:

• 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 mislabeled threshold values for under voltage monitoring.

Enhancement:

• 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 the 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.

Version 1.08 - RDE832C

Problem(s) Fixed:

• Fixed Maximum Segment Size negotiation on the network interface
  
• Fixed German keyboard support for remote control Linux clients
  
• The ISMP firmware was corrected to eliminate false fan failure indications
  
• Stopped generating the periodic SMIs used for Machine Check Architecture support

Version 1.07 - RDE831A

Problem(s) Fixed:

• The ISMP firmware was corrected to eliminate false readings that can occur immediately after the ISMP is rebooted
• Corrected a problem where the PCI Bus in the RXE-100 2RX could become lost after rebooting the server
• Fixed intermittent 178 POST errors when rebooting

Version 1.06 - RDE830B

Problem(s) Fixed:

• Corrected a problem where the server could become non-responsive 76 days after the Remote Supervisor Adapter II has been reset.
• Corrected a problem that would cause the Windows flash utility, wflash, to post an Error Code 8 when flashing under Windows Server 2003.
• Corrected a problem that would cause the Linux flash utility, lflash, to post an errorcode = 2 message when flashing.

Enhancement:

• Added DNS support for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
• Enhanced the command line interface

Version 1.05 - RDE826A

Problem(s) Fixed:

• Corrected a special situation where the time/date was saved incorrectedly

Version 1.04 - RDE823B

Problem(s) Fixed:

• Corrected a situation where the Event Log LED was lit for no apparent reason
• Send a Recovery Event after recovering from a VRM fault
• Assign RXE-100 events to the RSE-100 instead of to the server

Version 1.03 - RDE823A

Problem(s) Fixed:

• Fixed Alert LED blinking after remind condition clears and Power Supply Thermal Warning not turn LEDs On

Version 1.02 - RDE821A

Problem(s) Fixed:

• Fixed problems with IBM Director support reading server attributes.
• Fixed problems in handling Power Alerts.

Version 1.01 - RDE820A

Problem(s) Fixed:

• Fixed problem causing system to reset when flashing to version 1.00 from the Web

Version 1.00 - RDE819A

• Initial release