Ilo Boot Hang; Amd Memory Scrubber; Snmp Master Agent - HP Dl180 - G6 E5504 2X2gb 4Lff Svr Deployment Manual

iLO boot hang

Solaris becomes unresponsive intermittently, but frequently at boot, just after the Solaris copyright
banner appears. If the console is viewed from iLO, the virtual console goes blank. A power cycle or
reset is required to restore the system.
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OS releases affected—Solaris 10 6/06
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Servers affected—All supported ProLiant servers
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Description—A change to the Solaris device enumeration during boot that conflicts with iLO was
introduced in the Solaris 10 6/06 release. It causes the system to become unresponsive
intermittently during boot.
This issue is also documented as Customer Advisory c00775941.
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Resolution—This issue has been corrected in the Solaris 10 11/06 release.
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Workaround—Disable iLO

AMD memory scrubber

System becomes unresponsive after a fixed amount of uptime (usually between 1 and 6 hours),
regardless of system load.
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OS releases affected—Solaris 10 1/06 with patches, 6/06, 11/06, 8/07, 5/08, 10/08,
5/09
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Servers affected—HP ProLiant DL385, DL585, BL25p, BL35p, BL45p
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Description—Beginning with the Solaris 10 6/06 release and equivalent kernel patches, Solaris
is enabling the AMD™ memory scrubber. However, there is a known issue with AMD processors
in which the memory scrubber causes the system to become unresponsive with certain memory
configurations. First-generation AMD-based ProLiant servers with 4GB or more of system memory
are subject to this issue.
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Workaround— for Solaris 10 8/07 or earlier, disable the memory scrubber by adding the
following line to /etc/system and then reboot:
set cpu\.AuthenticAMD\.15:ao_scrub_rate_dram = 0
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Workaround— for Solaris 10 5/08 and later, add the following to /etc/system and reboot:
set mc-amd:mc_no_attach=1

SNMP master agent

The System Management Homepage shows no data and other SNMP clients are unable to get data
from the Insight Management Agents.
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OS releases affected—Solaris 10 6/06, 11/06, 8/07, 5/08
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Servers affected—All supported ProLiant servers
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Description—A change was introduced with the Solaris 10 6/06 release that causes SNMP
subagents, such as the HP Insight Management Agents, to lose communication with the master
agent when the system is running in 64-bit mode.
With the Solaris 10 6/06 release, Sun has introduced a 64-bit version of the master agent,
which is started if the system is running in 64-bit mode. Prior to this release, only a 32-bit version
of the master agent was available. The 64-bit master agent is unable to communicate with any
subagent, including the HP Insight Management Agents, which results in SNMP clients, such as
the System Management Homepage, being unable to collect MIB data provided by subagents.
The 32-bit master agent does not have this issue.
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Workaround— Disable the 64-bit master agent and enable the 32-bit version as follows:
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