Release Notes for HP OpenVMS V8.4 System Management Using 
Insight Software V6.0



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This document is organized as follows:

1  Features Supported
2  Features Not Supported in this Release
3  Known Issues and Limitations



1  Features Supported 
=====================
The following features are supported in the HP OpenVMS V8.4 System 
Management using Insight Software V6.0:

- Insight Virtualization Manager software
- Insight Capacity Advisor software
- Insight Global Workload manager software
- Insight Control Power Manager
- HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM)


2  Features Not Supported in this Release
=========================================
The following features are not supported in the HP OpenVMS V8.4 System 
Management using Insight Software V6.0:

- Logical server operations, Insight Orchestration software and
  Insight Recovery software. 
- Integrity Virtual Machines Manager for OpenVMS V8.4 HPVM guests
- gWLM support for  GiCAP on OpenVMS.
- gWLM support for Conditional Policy and Process Map on OpenVMS.
- Troubleshooting VSE management for OpenVMS Managed Nodes.
- Configuration of VSE agents for OpenVMS managed nodes.
- Import of Capacity Advisor Data from OVPA for OpenVMS Managed nodes.


3  Known Issues and Limitations
===============================
The following are the restrictions and known issues in HP OpenVMS V8.4 
System Management using Insight Software V6.0:

- Utilization Data not Available for OpenVMS Sub-OS Workloads

  The OpenVMS Utilization WBEM provider supports collecting utilization 
  data only for OpenVMS whole-OS workloads. It does not support sub-OS 
  (monitored and managed) workloads under OpenVMS. This has the following 
  impact on ID-VSE:

  0 Virtualization Manager and Capacity Advisor display utilization data 
    for whole-OS workloads only.
  0 Utilization data from sub-OS workloads running under OpenVMS cannot 
    be used for capacity planning in Capacity Advisor.

- OpenVMS Instances not Reported in Capacity Advisor Scenario Comparison 
  Report

  When a scenario comparison report is generated using Capacity Advisor 
  for scenarios with OpenVMS systems, the resulting report does not include 
  information on number of OpenVMS systems present in each scenario.

- HP SIM Reports Errors During OpenVMS Alpha System Discovery

  During HP SIM discovery of an OpenVMS Alpha managed node, HP SIM V6.0 
  reports a critical error indicating the managed node does not have WBEM 
  support. The discovery also reports a major error that the model, serial 
  number or UUID is not available for the managed node. However, OpenVMS 
  Alpha System is discovered inspite of the reported errors.

- Delay in Display of SNMP Traps From OpenVMS Managed Node 

  HP SIM V6.0 may report SNMP traps generated from an OpenVMS system after 
  a finite delay.

- "Symbol Errors" Column Shown Empty Without any Data

  In HP SIM, while viewing the Instance properties for Network in the 
  'Configuration' tab, the "Symbol Errors" column is shown empty with no
  data. Also, there is one column shown with no title.

- Incorrect display of "Current Time Zone"

  In HP SIM, while viewing the Instance properties, the "Current Time
  Zone" is displayed incorrectly in the Identity section. The correct time 
  zone information is shown as part of the "Last Boot Up Time" property 
  in the same section.

- Improper display format for "Create Date"

  In HP SIM, under the Instance properties in the 'Status' tab, the "Create
  Date" for OpenVMS Process Information is displayed in the following format:
  yyyymmddhhmmss.

- Capacity Advisor Limitation With an OpenVMS System Running gWLM Workloads

  OpenVMS system running gWLM managed workloads cannot be used in Capacity Advisor 
  scenarios for planning purposes. This occurs due to OpenVMS WBEM Utilization 
  Provider not having support for sub-OS workloads. This limitation will 
  be addressed in a future release.