PTF MH01785 and MH01786 Readme

Hardware Management Console Readme

For use with Version 8 Release 8.7.0 Service Pack 2

Date: 27 August 2018
(C) Copyright International Business Machines Corp., 2018 All rights reserved.

The information in this Readme contains the fix list and other package information about the Hardware Management Console.

PTF MH01785
PTF MH01786
List of fixes
Installation

PTF MH01785

This package includes fixes for HMC Version 8 Release 8.7.0 SP2. You can reference this package by APAR MB04173 and PTF MH01785. This image must be installed on top of HMC Version 8 Release 8.7.0 SP 2 (PTF MH01754) with or without any additional PTFs.

*Package information*
Package name	Size	Checksum (sha1sum)	APAR#	PTF#
MH01785_x86.iso	2634461184	637c8aad373832aa3ac964f3ade4195008455fa0	MB04173	MH01785
Splash Panel information (or lshmc -V output)
version= Version: 8 Release: 8.7.0 Service Pack: 2 HMC Build level 1808202046 MH01754 - HMC 870 Service Pack 2 Release [x86_64] MH01785 - Required fix for HMC V8R8.7.0 SP2 [x86_64] ","base_version=V8R8.7.0 "

PTF MH01786

This package includes fixes for HMC Version 8 Release 8.7.0 SP2. You can reference this package by APAR MB04174 and PTF MH01786. This image must be installed on top of HMC Version 8 Release 8.7.0 SP2 (PTF MH01755).

*Package information*
Package name	Size	Checksum (sha1sum)	APAR#	PTF#
MH01786_ppc.iso	2592833536	78fc3e643bb33074ccbbba8555400307b5b8a682	MB04174	MH01786
Splash Panel information (or lshmc -V output)
"version= Version: 8 Release: 8.7.0 Service Pack: 2 HMC Build level 1808202046 MH01755 - HMC 870 Service Pack 2 Release [ppc64le] MH01786 - Required fix for HMC V8R8.7.0 SP2 [ppc64le] ","base_version=V8R8.7.0 "

General fixes

Fixed an issue where opening multiple vterm applets intermittently fails after the first open.
Fixed an issue that can cause /var to fill up and report service event E212E134 when snmp is enabled.
Fixed an issue that can cause /var to fill up and report service event E212E134 when cloud connector process is running.
Fixed an issue that can cause /var to fill up and report service event due to a log rotation policy issue for ssl and httpd logs
Fixed an issue that can cause /var to fill up and report service event E212E13D under heavy use of REST APIs due to incorrect log rotation of credmgr.log.
Fixed an issue that can cause /var to fill and report service event E212E134 due to improper log rotation of journald logs.
Fixed issue with PCM dashboard showing "no activity" for network use when networking is configured but usage is very low.
Fixed an issue with 7063-CR1 where the HMC may fail to boot to the log on panel with "error 1901" and all network adapters disabled when one or more adapters are plugged into a dcbx capable switch that has dcbx enabled.
Fixed a persistence issue when the capacity field of SRIOV Adapter in Edit partition Template is reset by switching between use captured IO and do not use captured IO modes.
Fixed an issue where non-hscroot users may experience significantly worse performance then hscroot user for the same tasks.
Fixed an issue where using the server/vios/partition "informational click-card" (i icon) to turn off an attention indicator can cause unintended modifications to other properties. The unintended modifications may include deletion of in use virtual adapters resulting in an impact to running partitions/VIOS.

Security fixes

Apache Header fix for Qualys QID 11827
Addressed Kerberos vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-11368 and CVE-2017-7562
Added Security fix for openssh CVE-2017-15906
Addressed Kernel vulnerabilities:CVE-2018-1000004, CVE-2018-6927, CVE-2017-1000410, CVE-2017-1000407, CVE-2017-18017, CVE-2017-15126, CVE-2017-15116, and CVE-2016-8633
Addressed NTP vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-6464 and CVE-2017-6463
Addressed OpenSSL vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-3737 and CVE-2017-3736
Addressed glibc vulnerabilities:CVE-2017-15670, CVE-2017-12132, CVE-2015-5180, and CVE-2014-9402

Installation

Installation instructions for HMC Version 8 upgrades and corrective service can be found at these locations:

Upgrading or restoring HMC Version 8

Installation methods for HMC Version 8 fixes

Instructions and images for upgrading via a remote network install can be found here:

HMC V8 network installation images and installation instructions

Hardware Management Console Readme

Contents

PTF MH01785

PTF MH01786

Installation