Updated microcode for Machine-Type Models:

9110-51A; 9110-510; 9111-285; 9111-520; 9113-550; 9115-505; 9116-561; 9117-570; 9118-575; 9119-590; 9119-595; 9123-xxx; 9124-xxx; 9131-52A; 9133-55A; 9405-520; 9406-520; 9406-550; 9406-570; 9406-595

This Release Level of firmware is currently installed on all newly built systems shipping from the plant. This is also the final Release Level of system firmware planned for the Power5 product. Subsequent firmware Service packs for the SF240 Release Level will continue to be released.

Note for models 9119-590, 9119-595 and 9406-595:

Due to hardware prerequisites which must be verified prior to performing a firmware upgrade from release level SF230_xxx to higher release levels, customers are advised not to perform this upgrade on their own.

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Looks like a security fix and a few other various updates included.

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Fixes

The following fixes are addressed in this PTF:

Pegasus CIM Server Denial of Service Security fix.
Fix for Code Update failures with E302F842, B1818A0D and B1818A0E.
The following Daylight Savings Time (DST) updates:
Argentina: Changes to DST starting on 30 Dec 2007.
Venezuela: Changes to offset starting 09 Dec 2007.
Brazil: Changes to DST starting 14 Oct 2007.
Australia: Changes to DST starting 06 Apr 2008.
New Zealand: Extension of DST by 3 weeks starting 30 Sep 2007.
US, Canada, Bermuda, and Bahamas: Adjusting the DST start and end dates in 2007 and beyond.
Western Australia: Providing support for DST starting on 03 Dec 2006.
Brazil: Adjustments for the 2006-2007 DST period.

Hopefully we’re all running version 7 but now, but hey, just in case. There are a few fixes included.

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Virtualizing an Infrastructure with System p and Linux

Subsystem Device Driver Path Control Module

‘entstat ‘ will show you general Ethernet statistics in AIX. This will also give you link status, and show you the configured port speed/duplex settings.
Below you will see the output from entstat. The two important lines when determining speed and duplex are the ‘Media Speed Selected’ and ‘Media Speed Running’. The selected line displays the configuration of the adapter, whether its set to autonegotiate or configured to a specific setting. The one below is forced to 100/full. The running line will display what the adapter is actually running at. If this card were set to auto, you would see the negotiated speed.

-bash-2.05b$ entstat -d en1
————————————————————-
ETHERNET STATISTICS (en1) :
Device Type: 2-Port 10/100/1000 Base-TX PCI-X Adapter (14108902)
Hardware Address: xxx
Elapsed Time: 7 days 12 hours 47 minutes 48 seconds

Transmit Statistics: Receive Statistics:
——————– ——————-
Packets: 68946739 Packets: 56414525
Bytes: 182351384185 Bytes: 7089209177
Interrupts: 0 Interrupts: 52662037
Transmit Errors: 0 Receive Errors: 0
Packets Dropped: 0 Packets Dropped: 0
Bad Packets: 0
Max Packets on S/W Transmit Queue: 399
S/W Transmit Queue Overflow: 0
Current S/W+H/W Transmit Queue Length: 0

Broadcast Packets: 376 Broadcast Packets: 0
Multicast Packets: 1 Multicast Packets: 0
No Carrier Sense: 0 CRC Errors: 0
DMA Underrun: 0 DMA Overrun: 0
Lost CTS Errors: 0 Alignment Errors: 0
Max Collision Errors: 0 No Resource Errors: 0
Late Collision Errors: 0 Receive Collision Errors: 0
Deferred: 0 Packet Too Short Errors: 0
SQE Test: 0 Packet Too Long Errors: 0
Timeout Errors: 0 Packets Discarded by Adapter: 0
Single Collision Count: 0 Receiver Start Count: 0
Multiple Collision Count: 0
Current HW Transmit Queue Length: 0

General Statistics:
——————-
No mbuf Errors: 0
Adapter Reset Count: 0
Adapter Data Rate: 200
Driver Flags: Up Broadcast Running
Simplex 64BitSupport ChecksumOffload
PrivateSegment LargeSend DataRateSet

2-Port 10/100/1000 Base-TX PCI-X Adapter (14108902) Specific Statistics:
————————————————————————
Link Status : Up
Media Speed Selected: 100 Mbps Full Duplex
Media Speed Running: 100 Mbps Full Duplex
PCI Mode: PCI-X (100-133)
PCI Bus Width: 64-bit
Latency Timer: 144
Cache Line Size: 128
Jumbo Frames: Disabled
TCP Segmentation Offload: Enabled
TCP Segmentation Offload Packets Transmitted: 2893566
TCP Segmentation Offload Packet Errors: 0
Transmit and Receive Flow Control Status: Disabled
Transmit and Receive Flow Control Threshold (High): 45056
Transmit and Receive Flow Control Threshold (Low): 24576
Transmit and Receive Storage Allocation (TX/RX): 16/48

The Ethernet failover configuration basically combines two physical adapters into one virtual adapter. If you have one link fail, the traffic will failover automatically to the second running adapter. The output below is a failover adapter, en4. This is configured using ent0 and ent2. The speed and duplex are set per adapter, prior to configuring the failover adapter.

Here’s an example of an ‘Etherchannel’ failover configuration:

-bash-2.05b$ entstat -d en4
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ETHERNET STATISTICS (en4) :
Device Type: EtherChannel
Hardware Address: xxxx
Elapsed Time: 7 days 12 hours 51 minutes 19 seconds

Transmit Statistics: Receive Statistics:
——————– ——————-
Packets: 279573147 Packets: 285159987
Bytes: 118141661339 Bytes: 64784751636
Interrupts: 0 Interrupts: 268857629
Transmit Errors: 0 Receive Errors: 0
Packets Dropped: 0 Packets Dropped: 0
Bad Packets: 0
Max Packets on S/W Transmit Queue: 84
S/W Transmit Queue Overflow: 0
Current S/W+H/W Transmit Queue Length: 2

Elapsed Time: 0 days 0 hours 0 minutes 0 seconds
Broadcast Packets: 55 Broadcast Packets: 1135188
Multicast Packets: 1 Multicast Packets: 0
No Carrier Sense: 0 CRC Errors: 0
DMA Underrun: 0 DMA Overrun: 0
Lost CTS Errors: 0 Alignment Errors: 0
Max Collision Errors: 0 No Resource Errors: 0
Late Collision Errors: 0 Receive Collision Errors: 0
Deferred: 0 Packet Too Short Errors: 0
SQE Test: 0 Packet Too Long Errors: 0
Timeout Errors: 0 Packets Discarded by Adapter: 0
Single Collision Count: 0 Receiver Start Count: 0
Multiple Collision Count: 0
Current HW Transmit Queue Length: 2

General Statistics:
——————-
No mbuf Errors: 0
Adapter Reset Count: 0
Adapter Data Rate: 200
Driver Flags: Up Broadcast Running
Simplex 64BitSupport ChecksumOffload
PrivateSegment LargeSend DataRateSet

=============================================================
=============================================================

Statistics for every adapter in the EtherChannel:
————————————————-

Number of adapters: 2
Active channel: primary channel
Operating mode: Network interface backup mode

————————————————————-

ETHERNET STATISTICS (ent0) :
Device Type: 2-Port 10/100/1000 Base-TX PCI-X Adapter (14108902)
Hardware Address: xxxx

Transmit Statistics: Receive Statistics:
——————– ——————-
Packets: 279573211 Packets: 284507186
Bytes: 118141675002 Bytes: 64731620778
Interrupts: 0 Interrupts: 268350807
Transmit Errors: 0 Receive Errors: 0
Packets Dropped: 0 Packets Dropped: 0
Bad Packets: 0
Max Packets on S/W Transmit Queue: 83
S/W Transmit Queue Overflow: 0
Current S/W+H/W Transmit Queue Length: 1

Broadcast Packets: 55 Broadcast Packets: 567594
Multicast Packets: 1 Multicast Packets: 0
No Carrier Sense: 0 CRC Errors: 0
DMA Underrun: 0 DMA Overrun: 0
Lost CTS Errors: 0 Alignment Errors: 0
Max Collision Errors: 0 No Resource Errors: 0
Late Collision Errors: 0 Receive Collision Errors: 0
Deferred: 0 Packet Too Short Errors: 0
SQE Test: 0 Packet Too Long Errors: 0
Timeout Errors: 0 Packets Discarded by Adapter: 0
Single Collision Count: 0 Receiver Start Count: 0
Multiple Collision Count: 0
Current HW Transmit Queue Length: 1

General Statistics:
——————-
No mbuf Errors: 0
Adapter Reset Count: 1
Adapter Data Rate: 200
Driver Flags: Up Broadcast Running
Simplex 64BitSupport ChecksumOffload
PrivateSegment LargeSend DataRateSet

2-Port 10/100/1000 Base-TX PCI-X Adapter (14108902) Specific Statistics:
————————————————————————
Link Status : Up
Media Speed Selected: 100 Mbps Full Duplex
Media Speed Running: 100 Mbps Full Duplex
PCI Mode: PCI-X (100-133)
PCI Bus Width: 64-bit
Latency Timer: 144
Cache Line Size: 128
Jumbo Frames: Disabled
TCP Segmentation Offload: Enabled
TCP Segmentation Offload Packets Transmitted: 2709970
TCP Segmentation Offload Packet Errors: 0
Transmit and Receive Flow Control Status: Disabled
Transmit and Receive Flow Control Threshold (High): 45056
Transmit and Receive Flow Control Threshold (Low): 24576
Transmit and Receive Storage Allocation (TX/RX): 16/48

————————————————————-
Backup adapter - ent2:
======================

ETHERNET STATISTICS (ent2) :
Device Type: 2-Port 10/100/1000 Base-TX PCI-X Adapter (14108902)
Hardware Address: xxxx

Transmit Statistics: Receive Statistics:
——————– ——————-
Packets: 0 Packets: 652845
Bytes: 0 Bytes: 53137302
Interrupts: 0 Interrupts: 506852
Transmit Errors: 0 Receive Errors: 0
Packets Dropped: 0 Packets Dropped: 0
Bad Packets: 0
Max Packets on S/W Transmit Queue: 1
S/W Transmit Queue Overflow: 0
Current S/W+H/W Transmit Queue Length: 1

Broadcast Packets: 0 Broadcast Packets: 567594
Multicast Packets: 0 Multicast Packets: 0
No Carrier Sense: 0 CRC Errors: 0
DMA Underrun: 0 DMA Overrun: 0
Lost CTS Errors: 0 Alignment Errors: 0
Max Collision Errors: 0 No Resource Errors: 0
Late Collision Errors: 0 Receive Collision Errors: 0
Deferred: 0 Packet Too Short Errors: 0
SQE Test: 0 Packet Too Long Errors: 0
Timeout Errors: 0 Packets Discarded by Adapter: 0
Single Collision Count: 0 Receiver Start Count: 0
Multiple Collision Count: 0
Current HW Transmit Queue Length: 1

General Statistics:
——————-
No mbuf Errors: 0
Adapter Reset Count: 1
Adapter Data Rate: 200
Driver Flags: Up Broadcast Running
Simplex 64BitSupport ChecksumOffload
PrivateSegment LargeSend DataRateSet

2-Port 10/100/1000 Base-TX PCI-X Adapter (14108902) Specific Statistics:
————————————————————————
Link Status : Up
Media Speed Selected: 100 Mbps Full Duplex
Media Speed Running: 100 Mbps Full Duplex
PCI Mode: PCI-X (100-133)
PCI Bus Width: 64-bit
Latency Timer: 144
Cache Line Size: 128
Jumbo Frames: Disabled
TCP Segmentation Offload: Enabled
TCP Segmentation Offload Packets Transmitted: 0
TCP Segmentation Offload Packet Errors: 0
Transmit and Receive Flow Control Status: Disabled
Transmit and Receive Flow Control Threshold (High): 45056
Transmit and Receive Flow Control Threshold (Low): 24576
Transmit and Receive Storage Allocation (TX/RX): 16/48

For some reason, I tend to forget about fcstat. This is a very useful command when troubleshooting fiber channel issues.

firmo1# fcstat fcs0

FIBRE CHANNEL STATISTICS REPORT: fcs0

Device Type: FC Adapter (df1000fa)
Serial Number: XXXXX
Option ROM Version: 02881914
Firmware Version: T1D1.90A4
World Wide Node Name: XXX
World Wide Port Name: XXX

FC-4 TYPES:
Supported: 0×0000012000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Active: 0×0000010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Class of Service: 3
Port Speed (supported): 2 GBIT
Port Speed (running): 2 GBIT
Port FC ID: 0×010E00
Port Type: Fabric

Seconds Since Last Reset: 158286

Transmit Statistics Receive Statistics
——————- ——————
Frames: 80972 247978
Words: 1071104 84101632

LIP Count: 0
NOS Count: 0
Error Frames: 0
Dumped Frames: 0
Link Failure Count: 1
Loss of Sync Count: 5
Loss of Signal: 0
Primitive Seq Protocol Error Count: 0
Invalid Tx Word Count: 12
Invalid CRC Count: 0

IP over FC Adapter Driver Information
No DMA Resource Count: 0
No Adapter Elements Count: 0

FC SCSI Adapter Driver Information
No DMA Resource Count: 0
No Adapter Elements Count: 0
No Command Resource Count: 0

IP over FC Traffic Statistics
Input Requests: 0
Output Requests: 0
Control Requests: 0
Input Bytes: 0
Output Bytes: 0

FC SCSI Traffic Statistics
Input Requests: 4145
Output Requests: 12
Control Requests: 63356
Input Bytes: 330206300
Output Bytes: 49152

Primary service processor:
HMC1 = 169.254.2.147
HMC2 = 169.254.3.147

Secondary service processor:
HMC1 = 169.254.2.146
HMC2 = 169.254.3.146

Pretty simple stuff, sort of like in Linux where you can run ‘ifconfig eth0:1 x.x.x.x’ and so on. In AIX, you can assign multiple IPs to an interface by using the following command syntax:

mktcpip -h $hostname -a $virtual_ip -m 255.255.255.0 -i $interface

where
$hostname = Your system hostanme, example: testhost
$virtual_ip = IP to assign to interface, example: 10.10.10.3
$interface = Interface you wish to assign the IP to, example: ent0

ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS

* Newly Released Sun Alert Notifications

* Updated Sun Alert Notifications

==================================================================

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Newly Released Sun Alert Notifications
——————————————————————-
(Total Released: 8 )

Sun Alert ID: 103161 (RESOLVED)
Synopsis: Data Integrity Issues With PCI-E Write Transactions
Using LSI 1064et and 1068e HBAs
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Data Loss
Date Released: 08-Jan-2008
Date Closed: 08-Jan-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103161-1

——————————————————————-
Sun Alert ID: 103165 (RESOLVED)
Synopsis: A Security Vulnerability in libdevinfo(3LIB) May
Allow Unauthorized Access to Files on the System
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Security
Date Released: 11-Jan-2008
Date Closed: 11-Jan-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103165-1

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Sun Alert ID: 103171 (RESOLVED)
Synopsis: Security Vulnerability in FreeType 2 Font Engine
May Allow Privilege Escalation Due to Heap Overflow
Product: Solaris 9 Operating System, Solaris 10 Operating
System, Solaris 8 Operating System
Category: Security
Date Released: 06-Jan-2008
Date Closed: 06-Jan-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103171-1

——————————————————————-
Sun Alert ID: 103180
Synopsis: Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in the Sun Java
System Identity Manager May Allow HTML Injection,
Cross-Site Scripting Exploits or Unauthorized
Redirection
Product: Sun Java System Identity Manager 7.0, Sun Java
System Identity Manager 6.0, Sun Java System
Identity Manager 7.1
Category: Security
Date Released: 09-Jan-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103180-1

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Sun Alert ID: 103187
Synopsis: On Solaris 10 Systems, the KSSL Kernel Module may
Corrupt Incoming Data
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Data Loss
Date Released: 09-Jan-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
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Sun Alert ID: 103188 (RESOLVED)
Synopsis: Security Vulnerability in Solaris 10 Related to the
dotoprocs() Routine
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Security
Date Released: 11-Jan-2008
Date Closed: 11-Jan-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103188-1

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Sun Alert ID: 103197
Synopsis: Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL
Shipped with Solaris 10 May Allow Elevation of
Privileges or Denial of Service (DoS)
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Security
Date Released: 10-Jan-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
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Sun Alert ID: 103198 (RESOLVED)
Synopsis: Solaris 10 Systems Equipped With e1000g Drivers for
Intel 82571EB Chipset Based Intel Gigabit Ethernet
Controllers May Experience Ethernet Link Flaps
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Availability
Date Released: 09-Jan-2008
Date Closed: 09-Jan-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103198-1

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Updated Sun Alert Notifications
——————————————————————-
(Total Updated: 5)

Sun Alert ID: 103104 (RESOLVED)
Synopsis: The patchrm(1) Utility May Fail if the Patch Being
Removed was Installed Using a Japanese Locale
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Availability
Date Released: 05-Oct-2007, 07-Jan-2008
Date Closed: 07-Jan-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103104-1

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Sun Alert ID: 103111 (RESOLVED)
Synopsis: Under Certain Conditions, LUNs That Are Larger Than
2 Terabytes in Size Will Not be Accessible
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Availability
Date Released: 18-Oct-2007, 07-Jan-2008
Date Closed: 07-Jan-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103111-1
(before accessing this Sun Alert document please login to a
SunSolve Online Account with a Sun Spectrum Support Contract
at http://sunsolve.sun.com -> “Login”)

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Sun Alert ID: 103132 (RESOLVED)
Synopsis: Incorrect Script in Solaris 8 SPARC Patches
109896-34 and 109896-35 May Cause Duplicate Entries
in “/etc/name_to_major”
Product: Solaris 8 Operating System
Category: Availability
Date Released: 01-Nov-2007, 07-Jan-2008
Date Closed: 07-Jan-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103132-1

——————————————————————-
Sun Alert ID: 103151 (RESOLVED)
Synopsis: SPARC Enterprise Mx000 Servers with SAS DVD/DAT May
Panic on Reboot if Patch 125081-10 is Installed
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Availability
Date Released: 15-Nov-2007, 09-Jan-2008
Date Closed: 09-Jan-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103151-1

——————————————————————-
Sun Alert ID: 103155 (RESOLVED)
Synopsis: Solaris 10 Systems May Fail to Come up if Patches
Are Applied After Kernel Patches 120011-14 (SPARC)
and 120012-14 (x86) and Before the Reboot
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Availability
Date Released: 21-Nov-2007, 07-Jan-2008
Date Closed: 07-Jan-2008