For use with HMC Version 10 Release 3 M1060

Contents

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

• PTF MF71697
• PTF MF71698
• Package information
• Fixes included
• Known issues and limitations
  
• Best Practices
• Installation

Enhancements

• Enables multipath capability for NVMe expansion drawers.  When the server firmware level is FW1060.10, an additional 24 redundant partner slots are available for each NVMe expansion drawer.  The HMC must be used to assign both partner slots to the same partition.
• Enables Linux partitions running KVM on top of PowerVM to virtualize assigned resources and create hosted guests. KVM on PowerVM enables the KVM industry standard interfaces and cloud characteristics on enterprise Power servers.

General fixes

• Fixed an issue that can cause a system that is powered on to Standby state to go into Recovery state when the system is connected to the HMC for the first time.
  
• Fixed an issue that can cause the 7063-CR1 HMC to intermittently hang. For more information, please review this document: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7157787

Security fixes

• Fixed Apache httpd vulnerability: CVE-2024-27316
  Fixed less vulnerability: CVE-2022-48624

Command Line Changes

• The following commands have been enhanced to support multipath capability for NVMe expansion drawers:  chhwres and lshwres.
• The following commands have been enhanced to support KVM on PowerVM:  chsyscfg, lssyscfg, and mksyscfg.

Known Issues and Limitations

• The physical attention LED state shown on the GUI may not reflect the actual state for Enterprise BMC-based managed systems. The lsled command does show the actual state. A system rebuild will correct the GUI issue.
  
• Setting the Microsoft Edge browser to a language not supported by the HMC will cause Learn More links on the GUI to fail to launch help pages with the message "The requested help document was not found." 
  
• The recover profile data task fails to restore partition Platform KeyStore (PKS) data. If you have partition data stored in the PKS, it is recommended that you regularly backup profile data for your managed system in case there is a failure in restoring the PKS data in the future after a managed system has gone into Recovery state.
  
• The Add system GUI page may intermittently go blank after clicking Connect and not complete the add system request.  When this occurs, refresh the GUI and try the operation again, or use the mksysconn command to add the system.
  
• The power off of an Enterprise BMC-based managed system may fail from the GUI with the error "Target reached unsuccessful terminal state STATE_NO_CONNECTION", even though the power off was successful.
  
• The GUI window may intermittently go blank, especially when performing a system firmware update operation. A browser refresh will fix the issue.
  
• Dates, times, and numbers on the GUI Performance dashboard are shown in the format based on the HMC language instead of the browser language.
  
• Occasionally a Kerberos user login may fail even when the credentials are valid. As a workaround, try logging in again with the same credentials after a short delay of 15 to 30 seconds.

Best Practices

• User sessions - The following best practices helps avoid performance degradations gradually over a period of time due to increased login sessions as well as security vulnerabilities such as unauthorized access to the active HMC sessions.
• It is a best practice to logoff from HMC UI and then close the browser tab instead of directly closing the tab
• Set Idle session timeout for all the users and not leave the timeout as '0' which leaves it as no timeout.

Upgrading or restoring HMC Version 10 Release 3

Updating, upgrading, and migrating your HMC machine code

Update(s)for HMC V10R3M1060