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This Flash contains last-minute information and changes that could not be included in the final product documentation for IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center and IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication. This document also contains information about known issues.
 
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1.0 IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center and IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication: Flash for Version 4.1.1
1.1 Important notice about the WebSphere Application Server
1.2 Important notice about installation
1.3 Important notice about creating SAN Volume Controller VDisks
1.4 Important notice about performance monitoring of DS8000 storage subsystems
1.5 New in IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center and IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication Version 4.1.1
1.6 Installing, upgrading, or migrating to IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center and IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication Version 4.1.1
1.7 Using Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
1.8 Known limitations
1.9 Known issues
1.10 Documentation corrections

In addition to this document, you should read the following documents before using this product:
  • IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center and IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication Installation and Configuration Guide
  • IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center User's Guide
  • IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication User's Guide
  • IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center README (on the product DVD)

The Installation and Configuration Guide also contains pointers to other important documentation you will want to be familiar with, such as the DB2 and storage subsystem documentation.

Access the IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Information Center here:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v4r1/index.jsp

This site contains the most recent versions of the publications in PDF and HTML formats, or both. Translated documents are also available for some products.

You must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to view the PDF format of the publications. You can download the Adobe Acrobat Reader from:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html



1.1 Important notice about the WebSphere Application Server

Customers who have Web based applications, including Web services applications running on WebSphere Application Server, have a risk for an attacker to have the ability to remotely display or execute files on the server contained within a war file, including files under the web-inf and meta-inf directories. In addition, there is a potential risk for customers who are using the WebSphere administrative console with administrative security disabled.

WebSphere Application Server has updates available for APAR PK81387. The interim fix needs to be applied to the following WebSphere Application Servers for Tivoli Storage Productivity Center version 4.1.1 in the table below.

Note: This does not apply to the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Device Server, which is at version 6.1.0.23. Also, this does not apply to the WebSphere Application Server on z/OS.


Installed version Location
Tivoli Integrated Portal 6.1.0.21 <IBM_install_directory>\tivoli\tip\
Agent Manager 6.1.0.5<IBM_install_directory>\
<Agent_Manager_directory>

The default installation directory is C:\Program Files\IBM\TPC for Windows and /opt/IBM/TPC for UNIX and Linux.

For more information about this issue, see:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=638&context=SSPREK&dc=D600&uid=swg21380233&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8&lang=en

1.2 Important notice about installation
  • When installing the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center family, both the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center and Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication components will be installed. Canceling installation at any time during the install process will result in the uninstall of all components. For example, clicking the Cancel button during the installation of the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication component will result in the uninstallation of Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, Tivoli Integrated Portal, and Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication components.
  • The Tivoli Storage Productivity Center server requires a static IP address.
  • When you install a new version of Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication, DB2 is not used as the database. When you upgrade Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication from a previous release to version 4.1 or later, and have DB2 as the database, DB2 is upgraded for Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication. If you have the situation where DB2 is used as the database for Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication, WebSphere Application Security must be turned off before you upgrade.

    Note: This does not apply to z/OS.

1.3 Important notice about SAN Volume Controller VDisks

When creating SAN Volume Controller VDisks with Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, there could be a potential issue in some cases where the SVC cache function is disabled for the VDisk. This situation can lead to performance problems for applications using the VDisks.

For more information about this issue, see fqz0_r_svc_cache.pdf below.

1.4 Important notice about performance monitoring of DS8000 storage subsystems

When using Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.1.1 to run performance monitors for DS8000 storage subsystems with a microcode version between 5.4.2.1 and 5.4.3.51, the performance monitors might fail to collect performance statistics from the storage subsystems. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center contains new features to take advantage of recent additions to the set of DS8000 performance metrics supported by the subsystems. However, these earlier microcode releases might cause the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.1.1 performance monitors to fail. If the performance monitoring function is required for DS8000 storage subsystems in your environment, you should upgrade to DS8000 microcode version 5.4.3.52 (bundle 64.30.78.0) or higher before upgrading to Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.1.1.55. If you cannot upgrade your DS8000 at this time, you should apply the temporary fix or upgrade to 4.1.1 fix pack 1 when available. See this technical note for further information: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?&uid=swg21408590.

1.5 New in version 4.1.1

For more information about each of the features, go to the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Information Center. For information about how to use the features, see the IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center User's Guide or IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication User's Guide.

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.1.1 adds the following new features, functions, and enhancements:

IBM System Storage DS8000 4.3

Tivoli Storage Productivity Center supports the DS8000 4.3 features described in this section.
    data encryption
      IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center supports storage subsystem data encryption for DS8000. To use data encryption, DS8000 uses full disk encryption drives. At this time, DS8000 does not support a mix of full disk encryption and non-full disk encryption drives.

      For more information about data encryption for DS8000, see the DS8000 Information Center at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/dsichelp/ds8000ic/index.jsp. Search for DS8000 disk encryption.

      DS8000 microcode 5.4.3 is required to support data encryption.
    solid-state drives
      IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center supports solid-state drives for DS8000. Solid-state drives provide faster input/output (I/O) performance.

      For more information about DS8000 solid-state drives, see the DS8000 Information Center at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/dsichelp/ds8000ic/index.jsp. Search for solid-state drives.

      DS8000 microcode 5.4.2 is required to support solid-state drives.
    1 TB SATA disk drives
      Tivoli Storage Productivity Center supports high-capacity SATA drives for DS8000. SATA drives are available in a 1 TB configuration (900 GB of usable capacity) offering a lower cost per GB. Higher capacity drives can reduce the number of drives required and also lower energy costs.

      For more information about SATA drives, see the DS8000 Information Center at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/dsichelp/ds8000ic/index.jsp. Search for SATA.
    IBM System Storage DS8700
      Tivoli Storage Productivity Center now supports IBM System Storage DS8700. The CIM agent for this storage subsystem does not support solid-state drives, full disk encryption, and FRU location. Therefore, Tivoli Storage Productivity Center will not support these features until a later release. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center also does not support the Storage Optimizer for the DS8700.

    Performance management improvements
      Tivoli Storage Productivity Center release 4.1.1 provides performance management improvements for metrics, thresholds, and alert definitions. For more information, search for improvements to performance metrics in the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Information Center.
    Storage Optimizer
      The Storage Optimizer will now use a dynamic data model that is generated at run time rather than a static data model. This change provides more accurate utilization numbers in both analysis and optimization jobs. If the storage type is SSD (solid-state drives), the Storage Optimizer will also indicate the SSD pool in analysis and optimization jobs.

      The Storage Optimizer also supports analysis and optimization jobs for the DS5000. SSD pool support for the DS5000 in analysis and optimization jobs will be available when the new LSI SMI-S Provider is supported by Tivoli Storage Productivity Center.
    Advanced Brocade Discovery
      The Advanced Brocade Discovery function has been removed from Tivoli Storage Productivity Center. This function uses the Brocade API. If you have a fabric that is managed by the Brocade API and do not have a Brocade SMI-S agent, install and configure the Brocade SMI-S agent to manage the fabric before or after you upgrade Tivoli Storage Productivity Center. You must install and configure the Brocade SMI-S agent to view zoning data or perform zone control through Tivoli Storage Productivity Center. When you upgrade Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, you receive a warning message if you are using the Advanced Brocade API but no Brocade SMI-S agent is configured to manage the fabric.
    Discovery Library Adapter
      Tivoli Storage Productivity Center provides a Discovery Library Adapter which can be used in a multiple IBM Tivoli product environments to exchange data with other Tivoli products. The data gathered by Tivoli Storage Productivity Center is put in a common data model format and written to a file using the Identification Markup Language. This file can be loaded into IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Management database (CCMDB) so that other Tivoli products such as IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager or IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager can use that data.

      For more information about Discovery Library Adapter, see the Information Center and search for Planning for the Discovery Library Adapter.
    XIV Storage System integration of CIM agent users and device users
      For the IBM XIV Storage System software release 10.2 and later, the XIV Storage System CIM agent must use user authentication credentials that are defined for the XIV Storage System system. XIV Storage System offers the option of using a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) repository for user authentication and authorization. For information about user authentication for XIV Storage System, see the IBM XIV® Storage System User Manual. This manual is available from the XIV Storage System Information Center at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ibmxiv/r2/index.jsp. The link for the manual is labeled XCLI Reference Guide.
    SAN Volume Controller
      Tivoli Storage Productivity Center now supports SAN Volume Controller 5.1.0. SAN Volume Controller 5.1.0 includes the following features:
      • Maximum managed disk size is 2 TB.
      • Maximum virtual disk size is 256 TB.
      • The SAN Volume Controller hardware platform runs in 64-bit mode rather than 32-bit mode.
      • Solid-state drives can be in a SAN Volume Controller node. Solid-state drives are an optional feature for SAN Volume Controller.
    Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
      IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication 4.1.1 contains the following functional enhancements:

      Using IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server 800 (ESS 800) volumes in the H1 volume role for Metro Global Mirror and Metro Global Mirror with Practice
        When performing Metro Global Mirror replication, you can use ESS 800 volumes in only the H1 volume role. You can also mix ESS 800 and DS8000 volumes in the H1 volume role. All other volume roles must use DS8000 volumes.
        Note: Because ESS 800 does not support the Incremental Resync (IR) function, a full copy is required when transitioning from H1>H2>H3 to H1>H3 and from H2>H1>H3 to H2>H3.

      z/OS connections without the need for TCP/IP connectivity
        The IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication management server that runs on z/OS can now connect to IBM storage systems through a z/OS connection. The z/OS connection is used to issue replication commands and queries to attached extended count key data (ECKD™) volumes. The commands and queries are sent over an existing FICON® fabric, which is also used to receive asynchronous events.

        The z/OS connection is limited to storage systems that are connected to z/OS systems that are running an IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center management server.

        New and enhanced CLI commands are available to manage z/OS connections:

        addstorsys
          Adds a specific storage system and its volumes through a z/OS connection.
        chlocation
          Changes the location associated with specific storage systems.
        lsdevice
          The lsdevice command (which lists attributes of storage subsystems) has been enhanced to include z/OS as a connection type (in addition to direct connect, and hardware management console (HMC)).

        lsstorcandidate
          Lists storage systems that can be discovered through the z/OS connection.
        rmstorsys
          Removes a specific storage system and its volumes that are attached through a z/OS connection.
        showdevice
          The showdevice command (which lists attributes of a single storage subsystem) has been enhanced to include z/OS as a connection type (in addition to direct connect, and hardware management console (HMC)).

      Connection management
          The Storage Systems panel has a new Connections page. This page lists all connections and the storage systems behind each connection. It also displays the connection status and connection type.
      Storage system locations
          You can set or change the location of a storage system that has been added to the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication configuration from the Storage Systems panel under the Location column in an editable drop-down field. You can no longer set the location when adding a storage system or connection.

          From the CLI, you can use the chlocation command to change the location of a storage system that has been added to the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication configuration.

          Note: The -location parameter has been deprecated and therefore removed from the documentation for the adddevice, addmc, and rmmc commands. Use the chlocation command to set the location for a storage system.
      Metro Mirror sessions with HyperSwap® capabilities
          On IBM System z®, you can now create Metro Mirror (with failover/failback) sessions that have HyperSwap capabilities. Enabling HyperSwap when Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication is installed on System z combines an availability solution with a business continuity solution.

          Using the Metro Mirror with HyperSwap sessions means that, if an error occurs on a primary device, z/OS will redirect I/O requests to the secondary devices (for example, HyperSwap), thereby masking the application and the system from the I/O error.

          If an error occurs on a secondary device, or on a replication link between primary and secondary devices, a freeze occurs, ensuring that the target site remains consistent. This allows the customer to recover at the secondary site if the link failure was actually the start of a primary site failure.

      Backing up the database
          If you are using the zero-administration embedded repository (not DB2®) as the persistent datastore for the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication database, you can back up the database from the CLI using the new mkbackup command.
      Port connections
          The standby management server port is used for communication between the active and standby management server. You can initially set this port at installation time. You can view the current port for each management server from the graphical user interface (GUI) by clicking Management Servers from the navigation tree pane, or from the CLI using the lshaservers command.

          The client port is used to log on to the graphical user interface and command line interface from a remote system. You can initially set this port at installation time, as well. You can view the client port number on the local management server by clicking About from the navigation tree pane.

          You can also modify the standby management server and client ports after installation.

          Important: The standby management server port number must be the same on both management servers in a high-availability relationship. The client port number must also be the same on both servers. If you change either port number on one management server, you must also change it on the other.

      Installation graphical user interface (GUI) change
          The Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication Defaults port panel checks for port conflicts on ports 5110 and 5120. If there is a conflict, a new port is assigned by increasing the port number and then retesting for a port conflict until an available port is found. You can also specify a different port number at installation time.

    1.6 Installing, upgrading, or migrating IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Version 4.1.1

    When installing, upgrading, or migrating to IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Version 4.1.1, follow the instructions in IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center and IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication Installation and Configuration Guide

    Note:
    IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Version 4.1.1 is only available in English. There are no language packs available for this version of the product. See issue 46187.

    1.7 Using Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

    This section provides additional information about how different components work when used with Tivoli Storage Productivity Center.

    SLP Discovery
      One method for automating the discovery of devices is to use Service Location Protocol (SLP). However, a common problem with SLP discovery is due to IP multicasting being disabled on the network router. Communication between the SLP Service Agent and User Agent is done with IP multicasting. There are two recovery procedures when there are SLP discovery problems and IP multicasting is disabled on the network router:
      1. Configure one SLP Directory Agent for each subnet within the environment.
      2. Enable IP multicasting on the router, which is actually disabled by default. The following are the common router configurations for multicasting:
      • Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) is used to register individual hosts in particular multicast groups and to query group membership on particular subnets.
      • Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP) is a set of routing algorithms that use a technique called Reverse Path Forwarding to decide how multicast packets are to be routed in the network.
      • Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM) comes in two varieties: dense mode (PIM-DM) and sparse mode (PIM-SM), that are optimized to networks where either a large percentage of nodes require multicast traffic (dense) or a small percentage require the traffic (sparse).
      • Multicast Open Shortest Path First (MOSPF) is an extension of OSPF. It is a link-state unicast routing protocol that attempts to find the shortest path between any two networks or subnets to provide the most optimal packet routing.

    1.8 Known limitations

    This section lists known limitations when using IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center. Also check the following Web site for IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center limitations:

    http://www-01.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTotalStorageProductivityCenterStandardEdition.html

    LSI SMI-S Provider
      The LSI SMI-S Provider for DS4000 and DS5000 storage systems which supports the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) 1.3 specifications is not currently supported by Tivoli Storage Productivity Center.  
    SAN Volume Controller with more than 10,000 VDisk maps might cause probes to fail
      IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center data probes may fail against SAN Volume Controllers running 4.3.1.x or 5.1.0.0 when there are more than 10,000 host-VDisk maps. To correct the problem, upgrade the SAN Volume Controller cluster to level 5.1.0.1 or later.

    Hitachi Data Systems CIMOM limitation
      The correlation between LUNs created on virtual storage with the virtual disks that those LUNs are created on cannot be displayed because of a CIMOM limitation. However the correlation of LUNs created on local storage of the virtualizer and the local disks is supported. All reports that show this correlation and also reports correlating host assigned LUNs with virtual disks will contain only local storage LUNs.
    Hitachi Data Systems performance monitoring 38553
      A fabric probe fails for a Brocade fabric when an SMI-S Agent is managing the fabric.
      Possible Cause: A non-standard FA_HOST exists in the zoning configuration.
      FA (Fabric Assist) Zone is an old legacy feature and discontinued starting from the Brocade FOS 5.3 release. This was originally designed, like Brocade QuickLoop, to allow new customers with legacy non-FC capable equipment to take advantage of FC zoning capabilities. Commands to create and modify FA Zones and QuickLoops were subsequently dropped from the Brocade switch CLI. The Brocade switch CLI cfgshow command would still passively recognize such features if they were created from older legacy switches in the fabric.
      The Brocade SMI-S Agent will return exceptions while discovering zone configurations which would contain FA_HOST as members.
      To identify if you have FA_HOSTs as members, run the Brocade switch cfgshow command and look for WWN members with brackets around them, such as: H{210000E08B841E1B}
      Work around:

      1. Telnet to the switch.
      2. Delete the alias or zone containing the FA_HOST using the Brocade switch alidelete command or zonedelete command, respectively.
      3. Save the configuration changes using the cfgsave command and enable the same using the cfgenable command.
    43945
      The Volume planner may not reuse an existing unassigned volume on ESS storage subsystems even if the "Use existing unassigned volumes (if available)" option is selected. The Volume planner creates a new volume instead of reusing an existing one.
    45658
      In the topology viewer, clicking the expansion button (the plus sign) in the Group column of the tabular view will display the members of that group. Very infrequently, multiple members of that group will be selected when the group expands. This does not affect the functions that can be performed on those group members.
    45923
      If two different versions of a CIMOM are being used to obtain data from a DS4000 or DS5000 device, the older version of the CIMOM should be removed to assure that the functionality of the newer version of the CIMOM is used. IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center does not provide a method for specifying the order in which CIMOMs are used to obtain data in these environments.
    46084
      An authentication error can occur when Tivoli Storage Productivity Center is installed using OS Authentication in Domain, if the same userid also exists as a domain user.
    46169
      When upgrading from Tivoli Storage Productivity Center v4.1.0 to v4.1.1, there are several installation panels that the user will not see. These include the Tivoli Integrated Portal (TIP) installation panel and the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) installation panel. This is because these components are already installed by the v4.1.0 installer. However, new v4.1.1 installations will walk the user through these panels.
    46187
      After you upgrade Tivoli Storage Productivity Center from version 3.3.2 or 4.1 to version 4.1.1 and have previously installed the Language Pack, you must reinstall the Language Pack after an upgrade.

      Note: Any new or changed information in version 4.1.1 will appear in English only.

      If you are upgrading Tivoli Storage Productivity Center from version 4.1 to 4.1.1, only the Language Pack for the Device server needs to be installed. If you are upgrading from TotalStorage Productivity Center version 3.3.2 to 4.1.1, then the Language Pack for all the components needs to be installed.
    1.9 Known issues

    This is a list of known issues that have not been fixed.

    Alert Window help panels should list TEC/OMNIbus as a selectable option for Triggered Actions
      The help panels for the various nnn Alerts - Alert Window product panels should list TEC/OMNIbus as one of the triggered actions. Currently they list only TEC as the triggered action. This does not affect the function of the product.
      Note: nnn refers to the type of alert.
    IC63652
      When upgrading from Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.1 to 4.1.1, the database upgrade schema fails when upgrading the database using other languages besides English.

      Replace the DB2 message file db2clp.mo from the language-specific directory with msg/en_US.iso88591/db2clp.mo. Do this only at the time of the upgrade. After the upgrade, restore the original message file.

      For more information about this APAR, see https://www-304.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=swg1IC63652.
    IC64141 36227
      Frequent progress polling from Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication can cause the ESSNI agent running on DS8000 clusters or DS6000 clusters to stop responding to Copy Services queries and commands. To recover from this, a Customer Engineer must restart the ESSNI agent on the clusters.
      Work around:
      Adjusting the progress polling performed by Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication helps avoid this problem. If you adjust the progress polling, the Progress Reporting feature shows only 0% or 100% progress. To modify the progress polling interval, perform the following steps:

      1. Find the rmserver.properties file under the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication installation directory <TPC-R_base_directory>/profiles/CSM/properties/rmserver.properties.
      2. Open the file for editing and add the following lines at the end of the file:
        csm.server.progress.query.interval.max=31536000
        csm.server.progress.query.interval.initial=31536000
        csm.server.progress.query.interval.min=31536000
        csm.server.progress.query.interval.step=31536000
      Ensure that you do not change any other properties when editing this file. This will set the progress polling to an interval of 31,536,000 seconds, or approximately one year, effectively forcing the progress querying to turn off.
        A DS8000 firmware fix for this is being developed and the minimum level of microcode needed for Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication will be updated on the Supported Products List matrix support Web site after it is available. After you install a DS8000 firmware fix, you can safely undo the changes made to the rmserver.properties file. Undoing the changes to this file will enable regular Progress Reporting status updates.
        37308
          There is a known problem that occurs when you suspend sessions that contain ESS 800 machines in the H1 role. If you issue a suspend event while running any session with ESS 800 in the H1 role of Metro Mirror pairs, then all pairs are marked as suspended. It is possible that some full-duplex events could be generated, which will cause some pairs to be marked as prepared.
          At this point, if you attempt to perform a recovery operation, Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication will display the session as inconsistent. If the suspend command is successful, the data on the secondary site will be consistent. However, Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication will incorrectly report this as inconsistent. If you wait for the suspend events to be processed before you issue a recovery operation, or wait approximately 10 minutes and then issue a refresh pair states command, the pairs will show the correct state of suspended, but will still be flagged as inconsistent, even though they might actually be consistent. If this occurs, verify that the suspend command completed successfully while all pairs were prepared. Then, validate the consistency of the data on the secondary site.
        37745
          When installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication, InstallShield can cause the installation to hang at the end of the installation process. Sometimes you can click Cancel and the issue goes away. Sometimes you have to stop the setup process and exit the installation.

          If the installation has completed, stopping the process should not adversely affect the installation and Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication will work as expected. The installation has completed if you see the "success" panel at the end of installation or the following message at the end of the TPCRMInstall.log:

          Install, com.installshield.project_1.event.dialog.swing.PanelPostInstallSummary, dbg, Original summary message = The InstallShield Wizard has successfully installed $P(displayName).
          Choose Finish to exit the wizard.
        45055.NF
          The Port Peak Send/Receive Data Rate metric values reported in Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Brocade switches at a code level earlier than FOS 6.2.2 are incorrect. The switch under-reports the data rate values by a factor of 4, as visible in the Fabric Manager > Reporting > Switch Performance > By Switch and By Port reports. Please reference Brocade Tracking ID TR000264662 for the solution to this issue.
        45113
          The Port Send/Receive/Overall Utilization Percentage metric values reported in Tivoli Storage Productivity Center do not properly indicate a port performance bottleneck for IBM ESS storage subsystems. The user might be unable to appropriately set the threshold values for this metric, and as a result might receive unexpected and false alerts in Tivoli Storage Productivity Center.
        46025
          The Read Cache Hit Percentage metric value reported in Tivoli Storage Productivity Center might exceed 100% for EMC storage subsystems. The EMC SMI-S provider in rare cases over-reports the number of read cache hits, as visible in the Disk Manager > Reporting > Storage Subsystem Performance > By Storage Subsystem report. However the Read Cache Hit Percentage values in the By Volume report should be accurate.
        46046
          Performance monitors for DS8000 storage subsystems at a microcode level earlier than 5.4.3.52 might fail in Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.1.1. The storage subsystem reports invalid metric values which can cause errors in the performance statistics collection, or can cause errors when attempting to display the performance reports.
        46114
          In rare cases the By Controller report (Disk Manager > Reporting > Storage Subsystem Performance > By Controller) might fail to display properly in Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.1.1. The following error message is displayed instead: GEN7022E: A server error occurred while retrieving performance data.
        46150
          This issue refers to the L2 Computer view in the topology viewer. For any Computer with an HBA interface installed and the HBA ports connected to the fabric, the Connectivity Group of the selected computer shows the HBA boxes for each individual HBA WWPn containing 0 used/0 unused FCPports. Therefore, no FCports exist for that specific HBA WWPn.
          The expected HBA FCPorts appear under Connectivity Group under FCPorts box, a separate box, and not inside of any HBA boxes above. This is an incorrect behavior. The fibre connection of any selected FCport inside of FCPorts box to their Switches can be displayed in the L2 Computer view > Connectivity view as expected.

          This issue also refers to the Data Path Explorer view of any assigned volume of the Computer with the Fabric agent installed. The Data Path Explorer view of the volume does not contain an HBA box under Initiator Entities box; it shows the FCPorts box instead of the HBA box. This is an incorrect behavior. The user cannot identify which HBA corresponds to those ports if multiple HBA cards exist on the system.
        46171
          The service.sh script on /opt/IBM/TPC/service for a remote Fabric agent does not work.
        46178
          The Tivoli Storage Productivity Center splash screen in Tivoli Integrated Portal has the wrong version number after an upgrade.
        46260
          When upgrading from TotalStorage Productivity Center version 3.3.2 to Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.1.1, the role to group mapping fails. This occurs when you have LDAP configured. This issue is a display issue only; the new entered groups are saved correctly.
        46271
          The procedure for changing the authentication method from operating system to LDAP did not work. See the doc_corrections_v11.pdf below. Search for 46271.
        46462
          The Tivoli Storage Productivity Center installation program is unable to run in graphical mode on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS Version 4 and 5 or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server version 9 and 10. You must install a Linux RPM package on these operating systems. For more information, see http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21303823.

        1.10 Documentation corrections

          For information about documentation corrections, see doc_corrections_v411.pdf below.


         
        fqz0_r_svc_cache.pdf
        doc_corrections_v411.pdf
         
        Cross Reference information
        Segment Product Component Platform Version Edition
        Storage ManagementIBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Basic EditionNot ApplicableAIX, Linux, Windows4.1.1All Editions
        Storage ManagementIBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for DataNot ApplicableAIX, Linux, Windows4.1.1All Editions
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         Product categories:
         Software
         Storage Management
         Storage Resource Management
         IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Standard Edition
         Operating system(s):
          AIX, Linux, Windows
         Software version:
          4.1.1
         Software edition:
          All Editions
         Reference #:
          1406484
         IBM Group:
         Software Group
         Modified date:
         2009-11-06

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