- APAR IY45495
- A memory leak has been solved on agents running on Windows platforms,
which, over a period of time, was causing excessive resource consumption.
- APAR IY49454
- On certain Windows platforms detailed below, the agent contacts
the domain server to determine information about the user of a Windows application
too frequently. This is causing performance problems.
The Windows agent
platforms to which this problem applies are as follows:
- Windows 2000 Professional
- Windows 2000 Server
- Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Windows NT 4.0 Server (service packs 6 and 6a)
- Windows NT 4.0 Workstation (service packs 6 and 6a)
- Windows XP (32-bit only)
After installing the fix, the agent will store the user information
in its cache memory after the initial contact with the domain server.
- APAR IY50092
- On SUN platforms some scripts are prevented from running by the agent's
kernel extension. For example, if you run the following command:
export DISPLAY=`who -m | awk -F"(" {'print $2'} | awk -F")" {'print $1'}`:0
the following error is received:
awk can not be executed
After installing the fix, the kernel extension no longer prevents such scripts
from running.
- APAR IY50094
- On AIX platforms, the agent causes the operating system to loop if more
than 15 different processes fail in less than 8 seconds. An operator cannot
telnet or log in to the console.
After installing the fix, the agent correctly
manages large numbers of failing processes in a short time.
- APAR IY50187
- On Windows, AIX and SUN platforms, under heavy system
stress and in exceptional circumstances, a system kernel panic could occur
during the unload of the Tivoli License Manager agent kernel extension.
An unload occurs when the agent code is uninstalled, upgraded, or reinstalled,
by any method (Web registration, the installagent command,
or the agent self-update option on the runtime server).
The agent platforms
to which this problem applies are as follows:
- All AIX platforms
- All SUN platforms
- Windows 2000 Professional
- Windows 2000 Server
- Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Windows NT 4.0 Server (service packs 6 and 6a)
- Windows NT 4.0 Workstation (service packs 6 and 6a)
- Windows XP (32-bit only)
Other platforms are not affected by the problem that this fix resolves,
and the fix should not be applied to agents running on them.
The fix
requires the upgrading of the agent code on the runtime servers that serve
agents running the above-listed operating systems. It then requires you to
upgrade the agent code at each agent by first applying a utility provided
with the fix, and then updating or re-installing the agent code. Full details
are provided in Install the interim fix on the servers.
After installing the fix, the agent
software can be unloaded without causing a kernel panic.
- APAR IY50491
- On Windows 9x platforms, after the agent is installed,
some in-house programs, for example those developed using Power Builder version
4 or Sybase version 11.0.3, cannot run.
After installing the fix these programs
can run.
- Inventory scan transmission algorithm
- On all platforms, if a large number of agents belong to the same division,
the inventory scans cannot be handled by the runtime server because they are
occurring in too short a time frame.
After receiving a request for a scan
from the runtime server, the agent determines when to send the scan by using
an algorithm that generates a random time for the transmission, based in part,
on the number of agents, information supplied to it by the runtime server.
This algorithm has, a maximum timeframe of 9 hours. Thus, with many agents
in the division, the runtime server is experiencing a severe backlog of requests
from agents, which affects its capability to respond immediately to license
requests.
After installing the fix, the algorithm no longer has this
limitation, and correctly schedules the scan transmission so that the runtime
server can handle all requests.
- Agent self-update on Windows NT(R)
- On Windows NT platforms, the self-update of the agent
did not work after installing the tlm-1.1.1-0002 interim fix (agent version
1.1.1.10). Agents attempting to self-upgrade terminated abnormally.
After
installing this fix, the agent should self-update without problems.
- Agent self-update on Windows 98 and ME
- Agents on Windows 98 and ME platforms can now use the self-update
facility, which did not work prior to the fix.
- Deploying agents on unsupported platforms
- It is possible to attempt the Web deployment of an agent on the unsupported Windows 2003 platform. The deployment appears to have worked, but as
there is no kernel extension available to these agents, no license enforcement
is possible..
After installing the fix, a Web deployment request for the Windows 2003 platform will be refused by the runtime server.