The long weekend of Memorial Day, on May 30th, 2011, HP released patch for HP Server Automation - 9.00. The patch version is HPSA 9.04. [After 14 months HP release the patch for SA.]
I downloaded it in the same day and started to play with it in my VMs and Lab Physical Blades.
* Installation on a standalone core is very simple and easy. HPSA 9.04 goes smooth without any issue as normal.
* Installation on a single or two slices, also simple but little bit of additional patience. :)
Here is my HPSA 9.04 Core's Version Page :)
After patching, I tested a few HPSA functions, it worked as expected. :) Nothing much to complaint or log a case with HP Support.
An issue occurred during installation,
The HPSA (Opsware) installer failed, with the following error msg in verbose log :
CVerifying crypto DB: FAILURE (unable to decrypt /var/opt/opsware/crypto/cadb/realm/opsware-crypto.db.e): CHECK_CRYPTO_OUT=Aborted: Unable to decrypt crypto DB; CHECK_CRYPTO_RC=1
[Jun-01-2011 03:18:51] Component installation script encountered an error (exit status 1)
[Jun-01-2011 03:18:51] Exiting Opsware Installer.
For more details, please see the following file:
/var/log/opsware/install_opsware/patch_contents.2011-06-01.02:35:47_verbose.log
To Fix this issue, I noticed that my oiresponse.word_uploads has wrong parameter for the argument %%decrypt_passwd. After fixing it to the correct one, the installer works fine.
So far, I have patched HPSA 9.04 on a multiple slices core and in a multi-master mesh about 10 times. No failures faced.
Good Luck.
-Rameshkumar
EMail I'D : RameshKumar132@gmail.com
