This release note and the software that accompanies it are copyright (c) 2004, Intel Corporation, and may only be installed and used in accordance with the license that accompanies the software. version = 2.6-00-1 OS supported = NetWare* 5.1 & 6.5 This download supports Intel(R) RAID controllers using software stack 2 (the SRCU42X, SRCU42E, SROMBU42E, SRCZCRX, SRCU42L, & SRCS16), please verify that this driver has been tested with the RAID card you have chosen to use by checking the drivers web page for your controller at //Support.Intel.Com. This package is not compatible with the SRCU21, SRCU31, SRCU31L, SRCMR, SRCZCR, SRCU32, SRCU42L, or SRCS14L RAID controllers. Attention! =========== This application is dependent on the Java Runtime environment(JRE) being installed prior to installation of this application. The JRE is provided with the NetWare* 6.5 package or must be downloaded from the NetWare support Website. Please refer to the RAID controller's software guide for detailed installation instructions for the JRE and WebConsole application. Contents ========= The following files are included in this zip: Name DAte Size Description 2.6-00-1.JAR 08/30/04 6701KB Web Console Installation Package Web License.rtf 07/02/04 13KB License file Netware_WebConsole_readme.txt 10/01/04 13KB This file Installation ============ 1) Install the Java run-time environment and add it to the environment path, the package should be available with the OS or can be downloaded from the NetWare support Website. 2.) Switch to GUI screen (KDE/GNOME etc) as the installation will only work on X-Terminal screens. 3.) Mount the CD where you have installation file (*.jar) is located. 4.) At the shell prompt, type “java –jar [cd mount point]/installation file”. e.g. java –jar /mnt/cdrom/1.6-00-1.jar” 5) It is expected that the driver is installed in systems where the “RAID Server” (the remote RAID management agent.) module is being installed. 6) Follow the screen prompts. Fixes/Updates ============== -Added support for the SRCU41L Controller Known Restrictions ================== The current limitations in Browser of Novell Netware are: 1. Sometimes (at some un-predictable times, once in twenty tries(?)) one of the frames of MCC might pop up as a new window. We cannot prevent it, but we detect the condition, and give a message: ”webConsole: To continue, please close this window”, and then a “close window” message comes, and the user can safely close the window and continue with the rest of the session. Once in a blue moon ( we have never seen this happen, and no tester reported this either, but its theoretically possible) the window that pops up might be an essential part of webConsole, and webConsole might not be able to continue. Again, this is a very remote possibility. If that happens, user would have to start a new webConsole session. 2. Sometimes (again about once in about 20 times) a script error message might come. It comes only once, and after OK is pressed, the user can continue with the rest of the session. Again, there is a very remote possibility that webConsole might not be able to continue after this happens, but I have never seen this, nor have anybody reported it. 3. Incorrect “Power Cycle” and “Power-on-minutes” display in “Enclosure Properties” page. We have found that some of the enclosure boxes do not implement the command to get these values. However, it returns success and sends wrong values. We may have to be remove the display of these properties in the next release of webConsole. 4. Text that describes the operations to be done in each step during “Config Wizard” needs correction. Will be done in next Release of webConsole. Intel(r) RAID Web Console Installation requirements and Instructions for Netware ================================================================================ Contents: 1. Requirement 2. Installation Steps 3. Uninstallation Steps 4. Set & Modify Password 5. Miscellaneous points System Requirements: 1) Ultra 320 controllers 2) IX86 based processors OS Requirement: 1) Netware 6.0 or above Client Requirement: 1) Installation will work only on Xterminal Screens. Information below lists all the features of Intel(r) RAID Web Console and their requirements. NOTE: Features are from the user's point of view and may consist of one or more components. RAID Web Server: There is no requirement for installing Web Server. Web Server is installed in sys:\PUBLIC\MCC directory. JRE 1.3.x or above is required. The Web Server files are simply copied to sys:\PUBLIC\MCC directory. Registration Server: TCP Stack needs to be up and running for Registration Server to function. RegSvr file will be copied to SYS:\PUBLIC\MCC directory. Default Registration server name is "localhost". RAID Server: RAID server and its sub features can be installed only if RAID card is found and driver is loaded. 2. Installation Steps: a. Please insure that JVM is installed(jvm141sp1.exe file is supplied along with the release of RWC under the folder called jvm) and path system variable is updated with JRE location. User .jar file to install RAID Web Console Package. Installing NJVM =============== 1)Close the NetWare GUI if it is running. 2)Attach to the target servers(Windows Client Workstation) as a user with administrator rights to the SYS: volume. 3)On Novell system, type "java -exit". 4) mount the CD on Novell system. 5)Run NJVM self-extracting executable file on the Windows Client Workstation. 6)This expands the archive and launches the InstallShield installation script. 7)At the Welcome screen, click Next. 8)Accept the license agreement. 9)At the Installation Components screen, click Next. 10)At the Installation Requirements and Information screen, review the installation prerequisites and product compatibility issues, then click Next. 11)At the Destination Servers for Installation screen, select the servers you want to install NJVM on and click Next. 12)If xinit.nlm, java.nlm, or xlib.nlm is still loaded, an alert screen appears, if the Alert screen appears, close the NetWare GUI. 13)InstallShield displays an installation progress bar. 14)The installation process copies the java.zip file to the destination servers and unzips the file on each server. 15)Confirm that installation completes successfully. 16)On Novell system, type "restart server". b. Raid Web Console Installation Steps: 1) switch to GUI screen. 2) Copy netware.jar(where as netware will remain same and version number of the package will be changed) into a directory. 3) Change to above directory where you store .jar file to. 4) At the shell prompt, type "java -jar netware.jar" to run installation thru GUI installation or type java -jar netware.jar -console or -silent to go thru non-GUI instllation . 5) Click finish when installation completes. Raid Web Console Uninstalling Steps: Switch to GUI screen. At the shell prompt, type java jar Sys:\PUBLIC\MCC\_uninst\uninstall.jar". NOTE: Intel(r) RAID Web Console Installation does not support component updates currently. One must uninstall a feature and reinstall that particular feature. 3. Reconfiguring Web Server and RAID Servers: There are two ways to run Intel(r) RAID Web Console. First is locally, where all the components are in a single machine. The other is where there are multiple systems running RAID Servers in the network. Following description applies to both. Running locally must be treated as a special case of the former. Installation will install component based upon user's choice whether they want to install "standalone" or "networking". Installation starts RAID Server, Registration Server and RAID Server automatically depending up on user's choice. * Web Server is UNAWARE of registration server. It knows only about RAID Servers. * RAID Servers are UNAWARE of Web Server. They know only about Registration Server. * Registration Server is UNAWARE of both - Web Server and RAID Servers. Follow these steps to configure Web Server and RAID Servers. INSTALLATION DOES THESE STEPS AUTOMATICALLY DURING INSTALLATION DEPENDING UP ON USER'S CHOICE. * There must be only one Registration Server running in the network. It can co-exist with either Web Server or any RAID Server. Of course, in the LOCAL (standalone) setup, all the components run on a same machine. * Registration Server must be running before the RAID Servers are started. Registration Server can be started by typing /usr/sbin/RegSvr at the prompt. (/usr/sbin/RegSvr -stop to stop). Installation does this automatically before completing installation. * First task is to make a RAID Server become aware of the Registration Server. To do this: a. Registration Server: * Open SYS:\etc\regserv.dat * Type either the IP or the name of the server running the Registration Server. * If you are using the name instead of IP, make sure the name is resolvable. (Try pinging the server using name). * If the name is not resolved, you can add the name to "hosts" file. (/etc/hosts) * If everything is running locally, you may type "localhost" or 127.0.0.1 in the first line of SYS:\etc\regserv.dat * The above steps must be done in each machine where RAID Server is running. Once that is done, all RAID Servers may be started. To start a RAID Server type sys:\PUBLIC\MCC\RAIDSERV.nlm at the prompt. (Type sys:\PUBLIC\MCC\StopServer to stop a RAID Server) b. Web Server: * Now Web Server must be made to point at any of the RAID Servers. To do this: * Open the file sys:\PUBLIC\MCC\mcc.properties * This file contains many NAME=VALUE pairs. * Locate the name "RAID_SERVER_NAME" * Type either the name or IP of a RAID Server. * If you are using the name, make sure it is resolvable. (Try pinging the machine using the name). * If the name is not resolved, you can add the name to "hosts" file. (/etc/hosts) * If everything is running locally, you may type RAID_SERVER_NAME=localhost * Now start the Web Server by typing "sh sys:\PUBLIC\MCC\startup.ncf". * To stop Web Server type "sh SYS:\PUBLIC\MCC\shutdown.ncf". 4. How to set & modify Full Access Password: * Password must be set on every machine that runs RAID Server (RAIDSERV). * To set the password for the first time, type C:/NWSERVER/SetPass.nlm at the shell prompt. * SetPass utility prompts user to enter a new password and confirm it. * Length of the password must not be more than 40 characters. * If a password has already been set, then SetPass allows a user to modify it. * Password is maintained in the file /etc/raidpass.val * Password needs to be set every time you uninstall and install Intel(r) RAID Web Console 5. Miscellaneous points: * log files (RSMessages.log & PollMessages.log) are created in the directory /var/log * SYS:\PUBLIC\MCC\RAIDSERV -ver will now print version information. * Starting from Version 1.21-1, a new facility to limit the size of log files is added. * This is basically an INF kind of file with parameters in the form of NAME=VALUE. * The NAME "max_log" specifies the maximum size (in bytes) up to which a log file can grow. * RAID Server periodically examines the file size and trims the file to half the maximum size set. For example, if the maximum size is 2MB, then when the file crosses 2MB, it is truncated to roughly 1MB size. The default value is 1MB. * The NAME "trim_interval" specifies the length of the period after which next size check for trimming is scheduled. The default value is 120 minutes. * The oldest messages are deleted first. *Third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.