Cisco IMC Supervisor Release Notes, Release 1.1
New and Changed Features in Cisco IMC Supervisor Release 1.1.0.2
New and Changed Features in Cisco IMC Supervisor Release 1.1.0.1
Support for Hyper-V Deployment
Support for HTTP(S) Based Network Images for Firmware Upgrade
Collecting Inventory for Multiple Rack Accounts or Rack Groups
Support for Selecting Multiple Servers
Managing Tags for All Rack Groups
New and Changed Features in Cisco IMC Supervisor Release 1.1
Managing Policies and Profiles
Enhancement to Managing Firmware
Supported Upgrade Paths for Release 1.1.0.2
Supported Upgrade Paths for Release 1.1.0.1
Supported Upgrade Paths for Release 1.1.
Upgrading Cisco IMC Supervisor
Resolved Bugs in Release 1.1.0.2
Resolved Bugs in Release 1.1.0.1
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
First Published: August 17, 2015
This document describes the features and open issues for Cisco IMC Supervisor Releases 1.1, 1.1.0.1, and 1.1.0.2.
This document includes the following sections:
Cisco IMC Supervisor is a management system that allows you to manage rack mount servers on a large scale. It allows you to create groups of rack mount servers for monitoring and inventory purposes.
You can use Cisco IMC Supervisor to perform the following tasks for a rack mount server:
This release includes defect fixes only, and no new features. For information on the defects fixed in this release, see Resolved Bugs.
This section provides an overview of the significant new and changed features in this release. This section does not provide an exhaustive list of all enhancements included in this release. Following updates are available in Cisco IMC Supervisor, Release 1.1.0.1:
Support for Hyper-V installation is introduced in this release. You can now deploy Cisco IMC Supervisor in a Hyper-V environment.
Documented in Cisco IMC Supervisor Installation on Microsoft Hyper-V Manager, Release 1.1.
You can now download and add a firmware image from a network server using the HTTP/S server type option available in the Firmware Management menu.
Documented in Cisco IMC Supervisor Rack-Mount Servers Management Guide, Release 1.1.
You can now manage your rack accounts or servers better by collecting inventory for one or more rack accounts or rack groups.
Documented in Cisco IMC Supervisor Rack-Mount Servers Management Guide, Release 1.1.
You can now assign a server or multiple servers to a rack group from the Systems menu.
Documented in Cisco IMC Supervisor Rack-Mount Servers Management Guide, Release 1.1.
This section provides an overview of the significant new and changed features in this release. This section does not provide an exhaustive list of all enhancements included in this release. Following updates are available in Cisco IMC Supervisor, Release 1.1:
Support for managing policies and profiles has been introduced in this release.
You can now create hardware policies by configuring various properties such as BIOS, LDAP, Users and so on. A combination of existing set of hardware policies make up a profile. You can now apply configuration details of a rack server profile for example, to multiple rack-mount servers. You can also associate this hardware profile to specific rack-mount servers.
You can perform various management tasks such as adding, editing, and deleting hardware policies and profiles.
Documented in Cisco IMC Supervisor Rack-Mount Servers Management Guide, Release 1.1.
New UI enhancements are available for Firmware download and upgrade and you can view the images hosted in IMC Supervisor and on the network separately from the UI. It now supports downloading local images for new M4 models and E-Series.
Documented in Cisco IMC Supervisor Rack-Mount Servers Management Guide, Release 1.1.
You can now create, update, or delete multiple email alerts. Alert levels are introduced for each email alert sent.
Documented in Cisco IMC Supervisor Rack-Mount Servers Management Guide, Release 1.1.
You can now view the details of FlexFlash adapters used in the server such as Controller Info, Physical Drives and so on.
Documented in Cisco IMC Supervisor Rack-Mount Servers Management Guide, Release 1.1.
The Cisco UCS C3160 C-series platform has been validated and is added in this release.
Note We recommend that you take a snapshot of the VM before you begin the upgrade. If you do this, you do not need to back up the existing configuration database through an FTP server.
Upgrade for the following Cisco IMC Supervisor releases are supported.
Direct upgrade for the following Cisco IMC Supervisor releases are supported.
Direct upgrade for the following Cisco IMC Supervisor releases are supported.
Step 1 Open your SSH application and enter the Cisco IMC Supervisor appliance IP address and port number.
Step 2 Login as shelladmin with password changeme.
Step 3 From the Cisco IMC Supervisor Shell Menu, choose 3) Stop Services.
Step 4 To verify that all services are stopped, choose 2) Display Services Status.
Step 5 (Optional) If desired, you can choose 7) Backup Database to back up the Cisco IMC Supervisor database.
Note You do not need to back up the database if you took a snapshot of the VM before you started.
Step 6 To upgrade, choose 16) Apply Patch.
Step 7 When prompted, enter the location of the patch. For, example, ftp: // username : password @ hostname | IP_address / software_location_and_name
Step 8 Wait for the download and installation to complete.
Step 9 Choose 5) Stop Database and then 6) Start the Database.
Step 10 When prompted, 4) Start Services and complete the upgrade process.
Note The upgrade process is not complete or successful until the Cisco IMC Supervisor services have started, Cisco IMC Supervisor is available, the login screen is displayed, and the admin user can log in to Cisco IMC Supervisor. All services must be started before you attempt to perform other shelladmin procedures, such as apply additional patches, take a database backup, or restore a database from a backup.
Step 11 When the upgrade is complete, choose 11) Show Version in shelladmin to verify the current version of Cisco IMC Supervisor.
Note To view the status of services, choose 2) Display Services Status.
In addition to these Release Notes, the following Cisco IMC Supervisor documentation was created for Release 1.1.
The open and resolved bugs for this release are accessible through the Cisco Bug Search Tool. This web-based tool provides you with access to the Cisco bug tracking system, which maintains information about bugs and vulnerabilities in this product and other Cisco hardware and software products.
This section includes the following topics:
Tip You must have a Cisco.com account to log in and access the Cisco Bug Search Tool. If you do not have one, you can register for an account.
For more information about the Cisco Bug Search Tool, see the Bug Search Tool Help & FAQ.
All open bugs for this release are available in the Cisco Bug Search Tool through the following searches.
The results of that search include workarounds for the open bugs, if any.
You can find detailed information about all open bugs in Release 1.1.0.2 through the open bug search. This search uses the following parameters:
You can find detailed information about all open bugs in Release 1.1.0.1 through the open bug search. This search uses the following parameters:
You can find detailed information about all open bugs in Release 1.1 through the open bug search. This search uses the following parameters:
All resolved bugs for this release are available in the Cisco Bug Search Tool through the following searches.
You can find detailed information about resolved bugs in Release 1.1.0.2 through the fixed bug search.
You can find detailed information about resolved bugs in Release 1.1.0.1 through the fixed bug search.
You can find detailed information about resolved bugs in Release 1.1 through the fixed bug search.
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