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MergePoint® Service Processor Manager Firmware Release Notes V 4.2.0.05 August 1, 2008 This document outlines: 1. Upgrade instructions 2. Features and enhancements 3. Constraints and conditions ================================================================ Upgrade instructions ================================================================ Please refer to the MergePoint appliance Installer/User Guide for more information on how to upgrade the MergePoint service processor manager to version 4.2.0.05. ================================================================ Features and enhancements ================================================================ The following SPs are now supported: 1 IPMI 1.5 2 IPMI 2.0 3 IBM® RSA II 4 IBM BladeCenter® 5 DELL® DRAC 3 6 DELL DRAC 4 7 DELL DRAC 5 8 DELL 10G 9 DELL BladeCenter DRAC/MC 10 HP® IPMI 11 HP iLo 12 HP iLo2 13 HP BladeSystem 14 SUN® iLom 15 SUN Alom 16 Fujitsu Siemens iRMC We have tested every SP type above. For each type of SP, we have tested at least one Firmware version. Here is the firmware list. Unit Type
Firmware
Bios
DELL 1850 DELL 2850 DELL 2850
1.4 1.4 1.5
A04 A04 A05
IPMI 1.5
IBM X346 IBM X346 IBM X346 DELL 1855 Blade server Intel® 7210
1.012 1.03 1.16
1.11 1.02 1.14
1.1
A04
2.4
AMIBIOS 6.00
DELL 1950
1.0.0
1.0.1
DELL 1950
1.17
1.1.0
HPIPMI
HP Proliant® DL145
1.23
2.09
HP iLO
HP Proliant DL320
1.75
D18
HP Proliant DL320
1.64
D18
HP Proliant DL360
1.82
P54
HP Proliant DL320
1.84
D18
HP Proliant DL 360
1.91
P54
HP Proliant DL320G4
1.20 1.27 1.29 1.40
HP BladeSystem c7000
2.04
DELL 750 with DracIII
3.2
A02
DELL 1850 with DracIV
1.23
A02
IPMI 2.0
HP iLO2
HP BladeSystem DRAC III
DRAC IV
1
DRAC V
PowerEdge® 2900 with Drac V DELL 1950 with DracV
BMC 0.21 Drac 1.0 BMC 1.14 Drac 1.0
DRAC/MC
DELL 1855
1.5.0
DELL 10G
r805v
1.44
IBM x346 with RSA II Slimline
KPEP25A KPEP26A KPEP27A
RSA II
RSA II
0.2.9 1.1.0
ILOM
Sun iLOM
1.0.117445512 2.0.2.1
ALOM
Sun ALOM
1.54 1.60
IBM Blade Center
1.16
IBM BladeCenter
FSC
iRMC PRIMERGY® RX100 S4
1.60A 1.70A
1.07
4.06 Rev. 1.04.2532
This release includes the following features and enhancements:
1. Support for IPV6 The MergePoint 52xx appliances support dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 networking in the external facing Ethernet interfaces. The MergePoint appliance does not apply to the target interfaces. However, the MergePoint 52xx family provides IPv4 to IPv6 translation capabilities between its interfaces when applicable (e.g. MergePoint 5224 appliance carrying traffic from IPv6 User Ethernet interface to IPv4 Server Ethernet interface and vice versa).
2. Support for Network VLAN (Only for MergePoint 5200 Appliance) The MergePoint 5200 appliances support VLAN configuration and VLAN tagging of multiple VLANs, so that they can interface with multiple logical network segments from its physical Ethernet interfaces. VLAN support shall be available on all external-facing Ethernet interfaces of the appliance.
3. Support for Network Bridge Mode (Only for MergePoint 5224/40 Appliances) The MergePoint 5224/5240 appliances have an operation mode called Bridge Mode, which bridges the internal (server) Ethernet ports with the external (user) Ethernet ports, allowing traffic to go through the MergePoint 5224/5240 appliance from a host on the external network to an SP on the internal network and vice versa, with no interference from the MergePoint 5224/5240 appliance itself. Operating the MergePoint 5224/5240 appliance in Bridge Mode eliminates the appliance's physical security functionality, yet makes the network setup for SPs easier, while still providing the Ethernet port cost savings and DSView® 3 integration value to the end user. In Bridge Mode, proper handling of the security of the SPs attached to the MergePoint 5224/5240 appliance is the responsibility of the end user, and should be done directly through the SP, not through the MergePoint 5224/5240 appliance.
4. Support for Selective Mode for Native IP(Only for MergePoint 5224/40 Appliances) The MergePoint 5224/5240 appliances have an operation mode called Selective Mode, which allows traffic to selectively go through the MergePoint 5224/5240 appliance from a host on the external (user) network to an SP on the internal (server) network and vice versa, based on specific configuration set by the appliance administrator. Selective Mode leverages the existing Native IP feature in the MergePoint 5224/5240 appliances to make it easier for administrators to set specific trusts between the server and the user networks.
5. Removed the CLP Utility 6. Support for DHCP Relay The MergePoint 52xx appliances support DHCP relay mode in their DHCP server as a configuration option, so that the internal DHCP server in the MergePoint 52xx appliances can integrate with existing DHCP servers at the user's network.
7. Support for TCPDump The MergePoint 52xx appliances have built-in network trace and debugging tools available from the web UI. These network trace and debugging tools allow a user to collect all network packets from an exchange between the MergePoint 52xx appliance and a target device, and save that into a trace file that can be sent back to Avocent technical staff for troubleshooting and problem resolution.
8. Update SP profile ‘SUN ALOM’ to ‘SUN ALOM_telnet’ and add SP profile ‘SUN ALOM_ssh’ When Alom firmware version is equal or greater than 1.6, default connection is SSh. So we added “SUN ALOM_ssh” as default option in the MergePoint appliance.
9. Add SP Profile ‘IBM RSAII_withoutSol’ for IBM RSAII slimline card The IBM RSAII slimline card does not support SoL, so the sp profile “IBM RSAII_withoutSoL” was added.
10. Support for New Service Processor: Dell 10G 11. Support for New Service Processor: Dell DRAC/MC 12. Support for New Service Processor: HP BladeSystem 13. Support for Sensor of IBM BladeCenter 14. Change the Usage Mode for BladeCenter (BladeSystem) The usage mode is the same with DSView usage mode.
15. Add Telnet Method to Access Target Device Support telnet connection directly for target device. User can specify the port number which he wants to use for telnet connections.
16. Add ssh Method to Access Target Device Support ssh connection directly for target device. User can specify the port number which he wants to use for ssh connections.
17. Support vKVM for Sun iLOM, even if Customer Doesn’t Config NativeIP 18. Support vKVM for Dell DRAC4, even if Customer Doesn’t Config Native IP 19. Support DirectCommand for FSC iRMC with the Latest Fireware (1.7A) 20. Support AutoLogin and KVM for Dell DRAC3 with Microsoft Windows Platform
21. Support for NTP Service The user can automatically or manually synchronize the appliance time with internet time server.
22. Allow User to Save NTP Setting Allow the user to save selection and value for NTP setting.
23. Allow User to Set Discovery Interval Added a method to allow a user to set the discovery interval in the web interface. The valid interval values should be between 5 and 65535. It is only used for “Automatic” discovery range.
24. Change the Web Page of SP Chassis There are three options for chassis indicator. They are “Indicator on with time limit”,”Indicator on” and “Indicator off”.
25. Split SP Group Page into Two Pages In order to avoid any misunderstanding, there are two pages for the SP group. One page is for the configuration, the other page is for action.
26. Update the SP “indicator on” Without Time Limit for Group Action Changed the time limit. Originally the indication would only stay on for 20 seconds. Now the indicator can remain on during group actions.
27. Improve the SOL Display Fixed the problem that SoL information was lost or replaced during display of some BIOS screens.
28. Support for SUSE® (64 bit) Web Client and DirectCommand Support web client in SUSE (64 bit) to access SP’s browser session, auto-login and vKVM session.
29. Support for DELL 10G Power Consumption 30. Support a Radio Button to Toggle Between Celsius and Fahrenheit if the SP is IPMI ================================================================ Constraints and Conditions ================================================================ This release contains the following constraints or conditions: 1. Usernames under User Configuration must be all lowercase letters. 2. BMC Provisioning can only be configured on the secondary Ethernet Interface (eth1). 3. We support alias for every SP. Do not use special characters in the alias. Only the following characters are allowed: “0—9”, “a—z”, “A—Z” and “-“. 4. Losing power during an upgrade is non-recoverable.
5. Please do not use special characters in the SP’s password. support >’, ‘<’, “’”, “””,”&”, “|”.
We do not
