=== Please do not reply to this email. Your reply will not be received === === due to anti-SPAM controls we have in place. Please see QUESTIONS AND === === SUPPORT below for info on how to contact us. === M A G N I C O M P S Y S I N F O Patch Release Announcement Patch Version 5.1.2 OVERVIEW A new bug fix release of MagniComp's(tm) SysInfo(tm) is now available for download. This bug fix release is available for free to all licensed users of version 5.1. Your existing 5.1 license.mcl file should be used in conjunction with this patch release. DETAILS PATCH VERSION: 5.1.2 DATE OF RELEASE: 2/9/2005 VERSION PATCHED: 5.1 AFFECTED PRODUCTS: SysInfo full runtime environment SysInfo Software Developers Kit SysInfo Runtime environment without any user interface AFFECTED PLATFORMS: All supported platforms PROBLEMS ADDRESSED IN THIS PATCH The following is a cumulative list of fixes included in this patch since the 5.1.1 GA product release: ######## NEW FEATURES ######## * doc/UserGuide Add chapter on SiteInfo data. ######## BUG FIXES ######## * build Add missing libmcsysinfo/os/sunos/netif.c to source dist. * build Fix problem with configure getting wrong $objdir value on Linux systems. It was being set to "linux-X.X-x86" where it should be "$osdist-X-x86". * class/hardware Fix DMI decoding of CACHE size to work properly with larger cache size values (>= 1MB). * dist Fix build distribution procedure to run strip(1) on binary executables and libraries to reduce size of distribution. * doc/ReleaseNotes Update to state we now support HPUX 11.23 (11i v2) on PARISC. * sie/class/hardware Fix "Reliant CSB6" pci-id.cf entry from type "raid" to "ata" to properly identify connected disks. * sie/class/storsys Fix storsys drivers to directly check for "nodemo" option in .cfg files so that the option works when "--format report" is specified. * sie/core Fix sie "--license --nodemo --format report" to not report auto-generated demo licenses. * sie/core Fix rpm(1) command to be run as user in order to avoid rpm hangs common when rpm is run as root. This fix also fixes a common bug with running external commands with excessive privs. * sie/platform/sun Fix LDI code on Solaris to implement correct decoding of CPU speed values obtained via LDI. We were reporting significantly incorrect speed values on newer, higher speed CPU's. * sie/platform/sun Fix bug which resulted in some devices being incorrectly attached to the wrong parent device. Bug was in new libdevinfo(7) code introduced in 5.1. * sie/platform/sun Fix problem caused by Solaris 8 SPARC patch which results in internal disks on systems such as the Sun Fire V880 to no longer be discovered. Part of this fix also includes using device names obtained from libdevinfo(7) in preference to our own device name database. This will more align reported device names with the names used by the Solaris kernel. * ui/cli Add $cfdir as set by "configure --with-cfdir=..." (at build time) to the list of dirs to search for .cfg files. * ui/cli Fix things so that "--nodemo" actually works. The initial/previous patch only partially implemented this feature. * ui/html Fix HTML output of Software class data not to be mixed with other class data. * ui/html Don't display class title for classes which have no data to present. * ui/html Fix bug causing output to be mixed and repeated when reporting on multiple classes simultaneously encoded as html. * ui/html Fix title of reports to correctly contain hostname report refers to. * ui/html Fix bottom of report to correctly provide version of SysInfo which produced report. * ui/mcsysinfocfg When comparing mcsysinfo.cfg variables with command line option equivilents, ignore case. * ui Include the version status in the cache directory path. i.e. Use "5.1.1-H10" instead of "5.1.1". * ui Fix '--format report' cache bug which caused the cache file path under /tmp to not include the product version. * ui Fix caching so that '--format report --repsep X' uses the cache. To do so, we now store and compare the '--repsep X' values. * ui Fix bug where by '--format report' was previously not using the file cache. If '--format report --cache no' is given, then we bypass the cache as before. ######## DOWNLOAD AND INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS 1) Use your Internet connected browser to go to the URL http://www.magnicomp.com/cgi-bin/mcdownload.cgi 2) From the "-- Select Product to Download --" menu, choose the bug fix version of this product as indicated by "VERSION PATCHED" above. 3) Read and accept the license if you wish to proceed. 4) The next page will be the actual download page. Click on the appropriate "Download" button to download each distribution you require. Note that the names of the download images will include the PATCH VERSION in their file names. 5) Become root and run "/bin/sh file" where "file" is the newly downloaded patched distribution file. IMPORTANT: When installing the new patched version, be sure to choose an empty directory. Do not install into the same directory which already has SysInfo installed in it. QUESTIONS AND SUPPORT If you have any questions or would like to request Technical Support, please visit: http://www.magnicomp.com/sysinfo/support/ USEFUL URLs SysInfo Product Page: http://www.magnicomp.com/sysinfo Customer Service https://www.magnicomp.com/cgi-bin/mcservices.cgi UNSUBSCRIBE MagniComp sincerely respects your right to privacy. You are receiving this email because you elected to receive announcements regarding SysInfo when you created an account on www.MagniComp.com. If you do not wish to receive future SysInfo announcements, please visit https://www.magnicomp.com/cgi-bin/mcservices.cgi and login. Once logged in, select Edit Account, unselect the item "SysInfo product and upgrade announcements", then click the Save button.