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Table Of Contents
Release Notes for Cisco UCS C-Series Software, Release 1.5(1)
Overview of Cisco UCS C460 and C260 Rack Servers
Overview of Cisco UCS C420 M3 Rack Servers
Overview of Cisco UCS C220 M3 and C240 M3 Rack Servers
Overview of Cisco UCS C22 M3 and C24 M3 Rack Servers
Overview of the Pre-Installed Cisco Flexible Flash Card
Hardware and Software Interoperability
Upgrading BIOS and CIMC Firmware
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Release Notes for Cisco UCS C-Series Software, Release 1.5(1)
First Published Date: March 04, 2013Part Number: OL-28995-01
This document describes the new features, system requirements, open caveats and known behaviors for C- series software release 1.5(1) including Cisco Integrated Management Controller software and any related BIOS, firmware, or drivers. Use this document in conjunction with the documents listed in the "Related Documentation" section.
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We sometimes update the documentation after original publication. Therefore, you should also review the documentation on Cisco.com for any updates.
Table 1 shows the online change history for this document.
Contents
This document includes the following sections:
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Introduction
This section includes the following sections:
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Overview of the Server Models
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Overview of Cisco UCS C460 and C260 Rack Servers
The Cisco UCS C460 High-Performance Rack-Mount Server is designed with the performance and reliability to power compute-intensive, enterprise-critical standalone applications and virtualized workloads. The system is a four-rack-unit (4RU) rack-mount server supporting up to four Intel Xeon 7500 series processors, up to 512 GB of DDR3 memory in 64 slots, and 12 small form-factor (SFF) hot-pluggable SAS and SATA disk drives. Abundant I/O capability is provided by 10 PCI Express (PCIe) slots supporting the Cisco UCS C-Series network adapters, with an eleventh PCIe slot reserved for a hard disk drive array controller card. Additional I/O is provided by two Gigabit Ethernet LAN-on-motherboard (LOM) ports, two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports, and two dedicated out-of-band (OOB) management ports.
The Cisco UCS C260 High-Performance Rack-Mount Server is designed with the performance and reliability to power compute-intensive, enterprise-critical standalone applications and virtualized workloads. The system is a two-rack-unit (2RU) rack-mount server supporting up to two Intel Xeon 7500 series processors, up to 1 TB of DDR3 memory in 64 slots, and 16 small form-factor (SFF) hot-pluggable SAS and SATA disk drives. Abundant I/O capability is provided by 7 PCI Express (PCIe) slots supporting the Cisco UCS C-Series network adapters and hard disk drive array controller cards. Additional I/O is provided by two Gigabit Ethernet LAN-on-motherboard (LOM) ports, two optional 10 Gigabit Ethernet LOM ports, and two dedicated out-of-band (OOB) management ports.
This server is shipped from the factory with one pre-installed Cisco Flexible Flash card. The slots for these cards are on the I/O riser.
The Cisco UCS 460 M2 and the Cisco UCS 260 M2 interfaces with Cisco UCS using the Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC); 1225 and P81E. The Cisco UCS VIC is a virtualization-optimized Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 x8 10-Gbps adapter designed for use with Cisco UCS C-Series servers. The VIC is a dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe adapter that can support up to 128 (P81E) or 256 (1225) PCIe standards-compliant virtual interfaces, which can be dynamically configured so that both their interface types-network interface card (NIC) or host bus adapter (HBA) and identity (MAC address and worldwide name (WWN))-are established using just-in-time provisioning. In addition, the Cisco UCS VIC can support network interface virtualization and Cisco® Data Center Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) technology.
Overview of Cisco UCS C420 M3 Rack Servers
The Cisco UCS C420 M3 Rack Server is a high-density, 4-socket, 2-rack-unit (2RU) rack server designed for computing, I/O, storage, and memory-intensive standalone applications. The Cisco UCS C420 M3 extends the capabilities of the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS) using Intel Xeon processor E5-4600 Series multicore processors to deliver increased performance and efficiency.
The Cisco UCS C420 M3 is part of the Cisco UCS solution, which combines rack and blade servers with networking and storage access into a single unified system. Centrally configured through unified, model-based management, Cisco UCS simplifies and accelerates deployment of enterprise-class applications running in bare-metal, virtualized, and cloud-computing environments.
Designed for enterprise-class performance and scalability, the Cisco UCS C420 M3 combines the advantages of 4-socket computing with the cost-effective Intel Xeon processor E5-4600 product family for demanding virtualization, database, and high-end high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. The dense and expandable Cisco UCS C420 M3 is a balanced, high-performance platform that complements the Cisco UCS Rack Server portfolio. The 2RU Cisco UCS C420 M3 supports 48 DIMM slots, 16 disk drives, seven PCIe expansion slots, and four 1 Gigabit Ethernet LAN-on-motherboard (LOM) ports. It uses unique Cisco UCS and virtual interface card (VIC) technology and delivers one-wire participation in Cisco UCS domains. The Cisco UCS C420 M3 interfaces with Cisco UCS using another Cisco innovation: the Cisco UCS VIC 1225. The Cisco UCS VIC 1225 is a dual-port Enhanced Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP+) 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)-capable PCI Express (PCIe) card designed exclusively for Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers. It incorporates Cisco's next-generation converged network adapter (CNA), providing investment protection for feature releases. The card enables a policy-based, stateless, agile server infrastructure that can present up to 256 PCIe standards-compliant interfaces to the host that can be dynamically configured as either network interface cards (NICs) or host bus adapters (HBAs). In addition, the Cisco UCS VIC 1225 supports Cisco® Data Center Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) technology, which extends the Cisco UCS fabric interconnect ports to virtual machines, simplifying server virtualization deployment.
Overview of Cisco UCS C220 M3 and C240 M3 Rack Servers
The Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server is designed for performance and density over a wide range of business workloads, from web serving to distributed databases. The enterprise-class Cisco UCS C220 M3 server extends the capabilities of the Cisco UCS portfolio in a 1RU form factor with the addition of the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family. In addition, the Cisco UCS C220 M3 server offers up to two Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 product family, 16 DIMM slots, eight disk drives, and two 1 Gigabit Ethernet LAN-on-motherboard (LOM) ports.
The Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Server is designed for both performance and expandability over a wide range of storage-intensive infrastructure workloads, from big data to collaboration. The enterprise-class Cisco UCS C240 M3 server further extends the capabilities of the Cisco UCS portfolio in a 2RU form factor with the addition of the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family. The Cisco UCS C240 M3 offers up to two Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family, 24 DIMM slots, 24 disk drives, and four 1 Gigabit Ethernet LOM ports.
The Cisco UCS C220 M3 and the Cisco UCS C240 M3 interfaces with Cisco UCS using the Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC); 1225 and P81E. The Cisco UCS VIC is a virtualization-optimized Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 x8 10-Gbps adapter designed for use with Cisco UCS C-Series servers. The VIC is a dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe adapter that can support up to 128 (P81E) or 256 (1225) PCIe standards-compliant virtual interfaces, which can be dynamically configured so that both their interface types-network interface card (NIC) or host bus adapter (HBA) and identity (MAC address and worldwide name (WWN))-are established using just-in-time provisioning. In addition, the Cisco UCS VIC can support network interface virtualization and Cisco® Data Center Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) technology.
Overview of Cisco UCS C22 M3 and C24 M3 Rack Servers
The Cisco UCS C22 M3 Rack Server is a low cost UCS server designed for both performance and density over a wide range of business workloads, including enterprise web/file/print server and HPC. The enterprise-class Cisco UCS C22 M3 server extends the capabilities of the Cisco UCS portfolio in a 1RU form factor with the addition of the Intel Xeon E5-2400 product family. In addition, the Cisco UCS C22 M3 server offers up to two Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2400 product family processors, 12 DIMM slots, 8 disk drives, and two 1 Gigabit Ethernet LAN-on-motherboard (LOM) ports.
The server is orderable in two different versions, each with one of two different front panel and back plane configurations:
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Holds up to eight 2.5-inch hard drives or solid state drives
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Holds up to four 3.5-inch hard drives
The Cisco UCS C24 M3 Rack Server is designed for both performance and expandability over a wide range of storage-intensive infrastructure workloads, from big data to collaboration. The enterprise-class Cisco UCS C24 M3 server further extends the capabilities of the Cisco UCS portfolio in a 2RU form factor with the addition of the Intel® Xeon® processor Intel Xeon E5-2400 product family. The Cisco UCS C24 M3 offers up to two Intel® Xeon® E5-2400 processors, 12 DIMM slots, 24 disk drives, and two 1 Gigabit Ethernet LAN-on-motherboard (LOM) ports.
The server is orderable in three different versions, each with one of three different front panel/backplane configurations:
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Holds up to twenty-four 2.5-inch hard drives or solid state drives.
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Holds up to sixteen 2.5-inch hard drives or solid state drives and enables embedded RAID to be used in the server.
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Holds up to twelve 3.5-inch hard drives
The Cisco UCS C22 M3 and the Cisco UCS C24 M3 interfaces with Cisco UCS using the Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC); 1225 and P81E. The Cisco UCS VIC is a virtualization-optimized Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 x8 10-Gbps adapter designed for use with Cisco UCS C-Series servers. The VIC is a dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe adapter that can support up to 128 (P81E) or 256 (1225) PCIe standards-compliant virtual interfaces, which can be dynamically configured so that both their interface types-network interface card (NIC) or host bus adapter (HBA) and identity (MAC address and worldwide name (WWN))-are established using just-in-time provisioning. In addition, the Cisco UCS VIC can support network interface virtualization and Cisco® Data Center Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) technology.
Overview of the Pre-Installed Cisco Flexible Flash Card
The Cisco Flexible Flash card is pre-installed with three software bundles, each on one of four preconfigured virtual drives (VDs). The fourth VD allows you to install an OS or an embedded hypervisor.
The VDs are configured with the following content:
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The links to these documents are in the C-Series documentation road map:
http://www.cisco.com/go/unifiedcomputing/c-series-doc
Hardware and Software Interoperability
For detailed information about storage switch, operating system, adapter, adapter utility, and storage array interoperability, see the Hardware and Software Interoperability Matrix for your release located at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10477/prod_technical_reference_list.html
Transceivers Specifications
The Cisco UCS C-Series servers supports a wide variety of 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity options using Cisco 10GBASE SFP+ modules.
Table 2 and Table 3 details the controllers and the supported transceivers.
Firmware Files
The C-Series software release 1.5(1) includes the following software files:
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Host Upgrade Utility
The Cisco Host Upgrade Utility (HUU) is a tool that upgrades the following firmware:
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10493/products_user_guide_list.html
Starting with 1.4 release, separate ISO images of Host Upgrade Utility are available for different server platforms.
The ISO image is now named as ucs-<server_platform>-huu-<version_number>.iso.
The Cisco Host Upgrade Utility contains the following files:
System Requirements
The management client must meet or exceed the following minimum system requirements:
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Updating the Firmware
Use the Host Upgrade Utility to upgrade the C-Series firmware. Host Upgrade Utility can upgrade the following software components:
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All firmware should be upgraded together to ensure proper operation of your server.
Upgrading BIOS and CIMC Firmware
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Cisco provides the Cisco Host Upgrade Utility to assist you in upgrading the BIOS, CIMC, LOM, LSI storage controller, and Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Cards firmware to compatible levels.
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To use this utility, use the Cisco Host Upgrade Utility User Guide which includes the instructions for downloading and using the utility ISO. Select the guide from this URL:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10493/products_user_guide_list.html
Supported Features
This section includes the following topics:
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The following new software features are supported in Release 1.5(1):
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The following platforms are supported in Release 1.5(1):
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SNMP
The supported MIB definition for Release 1.5(1) and later releases can be found at the following link: ftp://ftp.cisco.com/pub/mibs/supportlists/ucs/ucs-C-supportlist.html
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Supported Storage Controllers
SNMP supports the following storage controllers:
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Resolved Caveats
This section lists the resolved caveats for the following:
Release 1.5(1j)
Following are the resolved caveats for Release 1.5(1j):
Symptom Image transfers through CIMC dedicated port may fail with timeout.
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Symptom Spurious CATERR logged in System Event Log which will be deasserted immediately.
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Release 1.5(1f)
Following are the resolved caveats for Release 1.5(1f):
CIMC
Symptom An idle C240 system with LSI 9286 card may show higher card temperatures for 9286.
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Symptom When the KVM console is launched with a non-English locale, the following Java NullPointerException error will be shown in the Java Console and the KVM console will not start:
java.lang.NullPointerExceptionat java.util.Properties$LineReader.readLine(Unknown Source)at java.util.Properties.load0(Unknown Source)at java.util.Properties.load(Unknown Source)at com.avocent.app.kvm.macros.MacroKeyStrokeMap.init(Unknown Source)at com.avocent.app.kvm.macros.MacroKeyStrokeMap.init(Unknown Source)at com.avocent.app.kvm.macros.MacroHotkeyManager.initCustom(Unknown Source)at com.avocent.app.kvm.macros.MacroHotkeyManager.<init>(Unknown Source)at com.avocent.app.kvm.DefaultViewerMainController.initialize(Unknown Source)at com.avocent.nuova.kvm.NuovaViewerMainController.initialize(Unknown Source)at com.avocent.nuova.kvm.Main.runApp(Unknown Source)at com.avocent.nuova.kvm.Main.main(Unknown Source)at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeApplication(Unknown Source)at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeMainClass(Unknown Source)at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.doLaunchApp(Unknown Source)at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Unknown Source)at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)Workaround
Symptom FlexFlash operational profile is not preserved on upgrade, resulting in all FlexFlash partitions being visible to operating system.
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XML API
Symptom C-Series XML API method aaaLogin using LDAP user credentials fails.
The aaaLogin method inName property's regular expression on input validation in the API is not supporting the "@domain.com" portion of LDAP username.
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Release 1.5(1)
Following are the resolved caveats for Release 1.5(1):
BIOS
Symptom CIMC System Event Log reports "System Software event: Post sensor, HECI or ME Firmware initialization failed [0x5301] was asserted".
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Symptom Discovery and Association fails when a physical CD/DVD drive is connected to the system.
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Symptom In BIOS setup, under CPU Power management, the C1E option does not get disabled when "Power Technology" is disabled.
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Symptom When an external graphics adapter is present on the system and VGA priority is set to Offboard VGA Primary, the KVM Video screen gets stuck with the following message:
Configuring Platform Hardware.Workaround
Symptom Allow the user to manage the memory refresh rates from the BIOS setup menu.
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Symptom USB Thumb drive mapped through vMedia may not get enumerated as FSx in EFI Shell.
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Symptom On C460 servers, the CIMC Web GUI does not display Cisco P81E card details when the main CPU is powered off.
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Symptom The SNMPv3 traps are not received in the Net-SNMP receiver.
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Symptom The Web GUI and CLI are not consistent in displaying the PSU redundancy status in Cisco C22.
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Symptom The DRAM_PWRGD Sensor Reading is not shown.
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Symptom C420 SEL can get sporadic messages similar to this:
2012-10-18 06:51:54 Normal "FRU_PSU2 PSU2_PIN: Power Supply sensor for FRU_PSU2, warning event, Upper Non-Critical going high was deasserted"2012-10-18 06:51:54 Warning "FRU_PSU2 PSU2_PIN: Power Supply sensor for FRU_PSU2, failure event, Upper Critical going high was deasserted"2012-10-18 06:51:52 Informational "LED_PSU_STATUS: Platform sensor, AMBER was asserted"2012-10-18 06:51:52 Informational "FRU_MB LED_HLTH_STATUS: Platform sensor for FRU_MB, AMBER was asserted"2012-10-18 06:51:47 Critical "FRU_PSU2 PSU2_PIN: Power Supply sensor for FRU_PSU2, failure event, Upper Critical going high (1496 > 1400 Watts) was asserted"2012-10-18 06:51:47 Warning "FRU_PSU2 PSU2_PIN: Power Supply sensor for FRU_PSU2, warning event, Upper Non-Critical going high (1496 > 1376 Watts) was asserted"Workaround
Symptom When there are too many PCIe option ROMs enabled on C420, BIOS POST SEL messages will be generated but not decoded correctly by CIMC. These messages will be displayed as "System Firmware Error #0x06".
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Symptom Activating Locator LED for an HDD causes a fault for that HDD to appear in the SEL log.
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Symptom The keyboard can stop working in the Broadcom 57712 PCIe option ROM.
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Symptom When LSI controller is downgraded, you may view the information, for example, virtual drive, firmware, of the previous version of the LSI controller in the CIMC Web GUI and CLI.
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Symptom CIMC Web GUI does not reflect the "Reconstruction" virtual disk state after expanding the virtual disk.
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Symptom When mapping a removal media using Mac Client, the USB device only supports Read-Only mode.
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Symptom When running the KVM Viewer client on a 64 bit Linux OS, block devices such as a USB stick or floppy drive will have the read only box checked when you open the vMedia tab. Trying to uncheck the read only box will fail, and devices can only be mapped as read only.
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Symptom When using the KVM Viewer client application with a 64 bit Linux OS, mapping both floppy disk and removable disk at the same time will cause improper functioning of the application that is, the drive data is invalid and/or cannot be read. Even mapping only a single drive (floppy or removable disk) at a time can yield unexpected failures. For example, after mapping and unmapping a USB stick, click on the exit button of the vMedia tab and reopen the vMedia tab. Now, if you try map the device again the vMedia tab will crash and all the mapped devices will be unmapped.
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Symptom CIMC recognizes only the SuperCap and all other information like the charge and charging state is not available.
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Symptom RAID subsystem Virtual Drive write performance can drop without warning from the CIMC.
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Symptom When the LSI MegaRAID controller is used with the Cisco Flex Flash, SNMP_Inv_HDD:Disk_IDD N and RN shows 0,0,0 instead of 0,1,2 sequence.
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Symptom The power supply serial number is unavailable in the SNMP inventory because the Power Management Bus (PMBus) has not provided the power information.
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Symptom SSH session remains active even after termination using the terminate command.
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Symptom The 650W PSU shows 20-35W power usage in the standby mode.
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Symptom When the LSI MegaRAID controller is used in conjunction with Cisco Flex Flash card, the SNMP_Inv_HDD:DiskPresence displays missing(11) instead of equipped(10).
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Symptom The connection to the Virtual Media tab gets disconnected and OS iso that was mapped over the Virtual Media tab disappears as a result of the disconnection.
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Broadcom Adapters
Symptom UCS C-Series server with a Broadcom 5709 stops passing traffic.
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Symptom Ports on the N2XX-ABPCI02 do not come up after a reboot or power cycle when running Linux.
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Symptom An LSI 9266-8i Raid Controller may overheat in a C220 M3 server with a full compliment of HDD. An overheating LSI controller may behave unpredictably, losing VD's, and rebooting.
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Symptom The server hangs during BIOS POST when scanning LSI devices.
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Symptom The 2008-8i MEZZ Card Serial number and FRU information is missing in the LSI Web BIOS and the LSI Host Application such as MSM and MegaCli.
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Symptom OS installs with LSI inbox drivers even if its pointed to out of box driver v00.00.06.18.
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Symptom When a drive rebuild is ongoing in C420 and C260 servers, the SEL will show the following entries for the drive on which the rebuild is occurring:
Platform alert LED_HLTH_STATUS #0x01 | LED color is amber | AssertedDrive slot (Bay) HDD4_STATUS #0xe8 | Drive Fault | DeassertedWorkaround
Symptom User is given this message, indicating a problem with the RAID controller cache:
USB cache device is not responding.Workaround
Known Behaviors
This section lists the known behaviors for the following:
Release 1.5(1f)
Following are the known behaviors for Release 1.5(1f):
CIMC
Symptom FlexFlash operational profile is not preserved on downgrade from 1.5(1x), resulting in all FlexFlash partitions being visible to the operating system.
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Intel RSTe
Symptom Creating RAID volumes from Intel RSTe software RAID option ROM (Control-I) is not supported.
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Release 1.5(1)
Following are the known behaviors for Release 1.5(1):
BIOS
Symptom LSI Web BIOS may not launch on pressing Ctrl+H.
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Symptom BIOS Boot order is getting changed when a virtual media device is mounted and unmounted through CIMC WebUI vKVM console or CIMC CLI.
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Symptom C260/C460 system reboots during EFI Windows 2008 R2 installation.
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Symptom Serial port B cannot be enabled for console redirection in the Server Management —> Console Redirection page of the BIOS setup.
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Symptom If the current CIMC networking mode is shipping mode, then the BIOS F8 CIMC configuration utility does not allow a new networking mode and IP address to be set at the same time.
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Symptom When BIOS console redirection is enabled, the keyboard can stop working in the Broadcom PCIe option ROM at some baud rates.
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Symptom Occasionally, when BIOS starts, the following message is displayed:
Error on Getting CIMC IP/MAC Address.Workaround
Symptom When Broadcom 5709 Gigabit Ethernet adapter is plugged into one of the PCIE slots, the server gets stuck at the BIOS post screen during the booting process.
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Symptom EFI shell cimcconfig does not work on C260 and C460.
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Symptom BIOS downgrade using the iFlash32 utility, from 1.4.x to the older version 1.2.x fails.
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Symptom For a server with Virident card (or any card for which fan control has specific modifications), if CIMC is reset to factory defaults when host is on, then the fan control will go back non-card specific settings. This might imply lower fan speeds and can cause heating up of cards if there are cards present that require higher fan speeds (ex: Virident FlashMaxII card). This is because information about cards is available to CIMC from host, and when a factory default is done, this information is erased.
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Symptom When you power on the chassis with some PS power cables disconnected, the system health LED on the front panel stays green, though some power supplies have no input voltage.
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Symptom USB Key which is inserted on a Mac can be forced to be read-only.
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These steps are time-sensitive, as the Mac OS is aggressive about re-mounting drives that have been unmounted. If the drive does get re-mounted by the OS before completing the steps, repeat the steps.
Alternatively, unmap the USB stick, use the Finder to eject the device, wait for the device to disappear from the vMedia Client view, and then physically remove and re-insert it while the vMedia session is running. As above, click Yes to the questions asking about preventing automatic mounting of the drive. (CSCtz52715)
Symptom On some Macs with spaces enabled, the vKVM popup notification that the session has ended can not be closed because trying to click the button causes the focus to move away from the space with the popup.
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Symptom C460 CIMC network mode shared_lom_10g with active-active redundancy will lose connectivity temporarily when host OS is also using 10GE LOM port.
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Symptom SNMPv1 traps are sent when SNMPv2 and SNMPv3 traps are enabled.
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Symptom The KVM screen displays a blank screen.
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Symptom After firmware updates, the CIMC Web GUI and CLI might not display the Virtual Drive Information under the Virtual Drive tab and might display the Virtual Drive count as zero even though the Virtual Drive tab displays the list of virtual drives present in the system.
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Symptom The SNMP Hard Disk Inventory starts numbering with 0 while the CIMC HDD sensor starts with 1.
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Symptom The HDD presence cannot be viewed through SNMP.
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Symptom Duplicate SNMP traps are obtained when you insert Fan 2,4 and 5 in Cisco C22.
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Symptom "Unable to communicate with FlexFlash" error message is seen after downgrading CIMC to version 1.4.
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Intel Adapters
Symptom When multiple Intel network adapters are present and you enter the iSCSI configuration from one card, it allows you to change the configuration on all Intel cards. After the change, when one of the cards is removed, it appears that the option ROM of the remaining cards is overwritten by the card that was removed.
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LOM
Symptom C460 CIMC network mode shared_lom_10g with active-standby redundancy can stop working when host OS is also using 10GE LOM port and then is rebooted.
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LSI
Symptom If the number of Virtual Drives created in the LSI MegaRAID controller is greater than or equal to 50, the system will not boot from any of these Virtual Drives.
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Symptom RHEL 6.2 Install to iSCSI target hangs when 2008 MEZZ card Option ROM is disabled on C220/240 servers.
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Symptom The following error message is displayed in some LSI RAID controllers when you navigate to CIMC > Inventory > Storage > Battery Backup Unit.
Error: required HW is missing ( i.e Alarm or BBU )The server did not have BBU installed on it and it should have confirmed the absence of the unit.Workaround
WebUI
Symptom Printing from Web UI is not supported.
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Open Caveats
This section lists the open caveats for the following:
Release 1.5(1l)3
The following defects are open in Release 1.5(1l)3:
BIOS
Symptom When the number of boot enabled devices exceeds the maximum number of bootable devices supported by the server BIOS, the server does not boot.
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Symptom When firmware updates are tried with local files using IE 9 (Version: 9.0.8112.16421Ic), it fails and the following message is displayed:
Firmware Update is taking longer than expected. Please check the selected file is correct, refresh your browser, try again.Workaround
Release 1.5(1f)
Following are the defects that are open in Release 1.5(1f):
CIMC
Symptom CIMC CLI does not report PID of HDD when using Intel RSTe.
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Intel RSTe
Symptom Hard drive Critical events are seen in SEL during server bootup when using Intel RSTe.
Workaround
Release 1.5(1)
Following are the defects that are open in Release 1.5(1):
BIOS
Symptom UEFI OS install is not supported on Software RAID (Onboard SCU controller).
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Symptom The following error is reported in the CIMC SEL Logs:
System s/w event:Post sensor , DXE boot services driver unrecognized [0xB6A3] was asserted?Workaround
Symptom The boot device "Cisco Virtual CD/DVD 1.22" for the network mounted Virtual media device does not appear in the BIOS boot order.
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CIMC
Symptom Cisco Card and Shared LOM Extended mode cannot be set for the VIC 1225T adapter.
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Symptom SEL has memory entries, but no entries are seen in the fault page. Cisco UCSM fault codes are unavailable for these SEL.
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Symptom When using the CLI with the create-virtual-drive command, entering incorrect parameters for Physical drive slot number, such as like, exit, quit, is not flagged as an error.
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Symptom In the CLI, the create-virtual-drive command in the virtual drive scope does not display the largest possible size of the virtual drive being created.
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Symptom In the CLI, the create-virtual-drive command accepts non-existent Physical Drive numbers as well as invalid virtual drive size and creates a virtual drive. The show-virtual-drive command lists the virtual drive created with invalid parameters but marks the state of the virtual drive "Offline".
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Symptom No fault and no SNMP traps are reported when a virtual drive consistency check fails.
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Symptom No physical drive specific faults are generated during virtual drive changes.
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Symptom Occasionally after a CIMC upgrade, one may see an error dialog box "Error: Unexpected error" in Web UI on main page upon the very first login. The Storage data may also be blank or invalid.
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Symptom No fault and no SNMP trap are reported when a virtual drive rebuild fails.
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Symptom Certain character combinations in passwords are rejected by CIFS and HTTP(S) protocols.
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Symptom Faults to signify physical drive rebuild status are not reported.
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Symptom Two mappings with same volumeName may be created, causing undesired effect.
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Symptom Sometimes upon the initial login to the WebUI after restoring the CIMC to factory defaults, an error message saying "Error: unexpected error" displays.
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Symptom When creating Virtual drive from WebUI, sometimes the Virtual drive creation update in WebUI takes a long time and an error message stating Error Timed Out appears.
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Symptom Unplugging and plugging the MegaRAID controller's BBU is not detected by WebUI or pmcli without rebooting the CIMC.
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Symptom When learn cycle is started on TMM-C SuperCap from WebUI or PMCLI, it fails with an error message: " Failed to Set BBU properties". This error message displayed is not very meaningful to understand why starting learn cycle failed for the TMM-C SuperCap.
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Symptom Some LSI MegaRAID controllers support only a subset of the RAID levels (0, 1, and 10), but pmcli create-virtual-drive command additionally displays 5, 6, 50, and 60 as candidates for virtual drive creation. But if one of the latter RAID levels is selected, the virtual drive creation fails.
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Symptom When a RAID controller cannot load its drive configuration, no fault is generated.
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Symptom Sometimes after carving a new virtual drive out of an existing drive group, the new virtual drive does not show in the list of available virtual drives during a subsequent carve-virtual-drive command. The drive is created.
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Symptom On some MegaRAID controllers, a maximum of 16 virtual drives can be created. If the maximum number of virtual drives is created, then one is deleted, neither the WebUI nor pmcli will allow another virtual drive to be created, even though MSM and MegaRAID allow the last drive to again be created.
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Symptom When a physical drive is set as the boot drive via MegaCLI, this change is not picked up by the pmcli or WebUI display of virtual drives: The previously-set boot virtual drive is displayed as the current boot drive. The show detail command in the controller scope does show the correct information, both the PD's deviceID and the fact that the boot drive is now a PD.
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Symptom The bootable virtual drive is displayed in a column in the WebUI virtual drive tab, and in the show virtual-drive output in the controller scope, and show output in the virtual drive scope. Also, in release 1.5(1), the boot drive can be set via both the WebUI and pmcli. But if the boot drive value is changed via MegaCLI, that change is not picked up by the WebUI or pmcli. Note that the MegaCLI's command does succeed and the boot drive is changed, but the WebUI and pmcli do not display the correct value.
Workaround
Symptom Occasionally a spurious fault is generated that a nonexistent drive is missing.
Workaround
Symptom SEL entries not appearing in fault page
Workaround
Symptom Cannot setup the CIMC. System will try to boot up but no access to CIMC.
"Error locating IPMI Protocol" during CIMC setup.Workaround
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Symptom Sometimes a physical drive holding a foreign configuration may generate a fault, even though it is a good disk.
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Symptom Occasionally, spurious faults are generated when a physical drive is removed.
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Symptom Sometimes, the Storage Log in the CIMC WebUI and CLI does not show the latest events generated. This usually occurs after CIMC is upgraded to the new version.
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Symptom Virtual Drive long running operations such as Initialization. Rebuild, Consistency Check progress are not reported correctly on CIMC WebUI and PMCLI if multiple Virtual drives are undergoing the long running operations simultaneously. The progress will be reported correctly on the first virtual drive but on the subsequent virtual drives you see "Foreground Initialization is in progress" but 0 for Progress and Elapsed time values.
Workaround
LSI
Symptom RAID CD-ROM Drive appears in the Boot Options. Booting to this option will give blank screen.
Workaround
Web Management
Symptom Occasionally WEB UI shows Reset link for UCS VIC P81E card.
Workaround
VIC
Symptom In VIC 1225T, when the system is booted in the 1Gbps mode, the MAC sometimes does not detect the link. PHY seems to detect the link. But the MAC shows a link down error.
Workaround
SNMP
Symptom Duplicate SNMP traps are obtained for sensors.
Workaround
XML API
Symptom XML API does not support configuring of LSI RAID storage controller.
Workaround
Release 1.4(8)
This section lists the open caveats for release 1.4(8):
CIMC
Symptom C420 CIMC log can often contain many messages similar to this.
2012 Nov 13 20:55:02 Debug BMC:kernel:- <7>[i2c_controller_transfer_bytes]:1267:Receiver NACK to data byte on bus 0x17 and device 0xE0Workaround
Symptom There is no CIMC notification of Closed Loop Thermal Throttling (CLTT) when it occurs. CLTT happens automatically when the DIMM temperature crosses the UC (upper critical) temperature.
Workaround
Release 1.4(7f1)
This section lists the open caveats for release 1.4(7f1):
CIMC
Symptom The PWRGD Sensor's Normal events are logged in the SEL during the CIMC boot and Host boot.
Workaround
Release 1.4(7)
This section lists the open caveats for release 1.4(7):
BIOS
Symptom Server hangs with blinking cursor before loading the OS, in the follow on (turnup) boot after association is complete.
Workaround
CIMC
Symptom LSI storage controllers with external ports (-8e cards) do not show up in CIMC local storage management.
Workaround
Symptom Repeated VIC adapter resets using CIMC Web UI or CLI adapter-reset can cause VIC card to hang.
Workaround
Symptom vmedia is not usable in BIOS boot order when using a VIC P81E card.
Workaround
LSI
Symptom SSD Caching is enabled even when SSD is not part of the virtual drive.
Workaround
Symptom The LSI controller CLI Application MegaCli does not properly work under Windows Power Shell. A failure message is displayed when creating virtual drives for RAID levels 1,5,10,50 and 60.
Workaround
Web UI
Symptom Sometimes, on Windows 2008 servers and Internet Explorer 8.0 version, the CIMC WEB UI login prompt will not be seen.
Workaround
Release 1.4(6)
This section lists the open caveats for Release 1.4(6):
CIMC
Symptom The SEL event is not logged in the OS Watchdog timer expiration.
Workaround
Symptom The PSU firmware revision may only be partially available when the PSU does not have AC power.
Workaround
Symptom CIMC power capping is not supported on VMware ESXi 5.0.
Workaround
Symptom CIMC storage view of LSI 9260 card occasionally reports 0 Cache Memory size.
Workaround
Symptom When updating CIMC firmware through TFTP, if the image file is corrupted, the update status indicator is the same as if the file does not exist.
Workaround
Symptom The following symptoms are observed in RHEL 6.3
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Check and verify the switch configuration to ensure that only 1 VSAN and VLAN is configured on the FCOE interface. Verify Virtual Interface Information (FCOE interface) to check that only 1 VSAN is allowed.
Run the following command to check if multiple VSAN is configured:
switch> show interface vfc <vfc_num>Trunk vsans (admin allowed and active) (n-m)
Run the following commands to change the Virtual Interface Configuration to allow only 1 Vsan.
switch> config terminalswitch> interface vfc <vfc_num>switch> switchport trunk allowed vsan <n>Verify the bound interface configuration.
switch> show interface vfc <vfc_num>Bound interface is <bound_interface_name>
Run the following commands to change the Bound Interface Configuration to allow only 1 VLAN.
switch> config tswitch> interface <bound_interface_name>switch > switchport trunk allowed vlan <vlan>LSI
Symptom The system hangs when you type Exit in the EFI shell.
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Symptom The Storage Controller name in Device Manager, under Windows 2008 R2 SP1 for C240 server, displays the Server model number as C220 instead of C240.
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Symptom Servers using 2008M-8i MEZZ card display unusually high HDD temperatures sometimes in the range of 150 F.
Workaround
BIOS
Symptom Continuous beep sound is heard when the system is switched on.
Workaround
Release 1.4(5)
This section lists the open caveats for Release 1.4(5):
CIMC
Symptom Sometimes LUN details are not updated in SNMP inventory.
Workaround
Release 1.4(4a)
This section lists the open caveats for Release 1.4(4a):
CIMC
Symptom The LED sensor color is red or amber or blue (or any supported color) even though the LED state is set to OFF.
Workaround
Symptom The AES encryption field does not show the encryption level (128, 256, and so on) on the Web GUI and CLI.
Workaround
Symptom The SNMPv3 walk, with AES encryption enabled, produces a "Decryption Error" when an SNMPv3 trap is triggered by an event. An "authentication failure" error is also encountered on triggering an event with the secure hash algorithm (SHA) authentication. The SHA trap error is encountered with both "authpriv" and "authnopriv" settings. The issue is observed till the master agent is restarted by clicking Save All in the CIMC Web UI SNMP configuration page.
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Symptom The KVM viewer version does not display the FCS version, that is, 2.0.0.27. This means the client machine has not downloaded the new .jar file for the KVM/vMedia client and the old client is getting executed. This issue is seen when you use KVM with the old CIMC firmware and then upgraded the CIMC. To check the KVM viewer version, invoke KVM and go to Help >About KVM Viewer. The KVM Viewer version should be 2.0.0.27 for Release 1.4(4a).
Workaround
For Windows, go to in c:\Program Files\Java\<JRE VERSION>\bin and delete the cached Cisco Virtual KVM Console application and re-launch remote presence.
For Linux, go to the Java directory, for example ./usr/java/jre1.6.0_26/bin/ControlPanel.
Release 1.4(3)
This section lists the open caveats for the 1.4(3) release:
CIMC
Symptom When CIMC is booted, the HTTP Web UI does not start.
Workaround
LSI
Symptom The C460 server with 9240-8i card hangs and results in system panic or BSOD when a virtual drive is being deleted from Linux or Windows using the LSI host applications such as MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM) or MegaCli.
Workaround
Symptom The C460 server with 9240-8i card hangs during the virtual drive creation when you use either MSM or MegaCli LSI applications from any of the supported OS.
Workaround
Symptom LSI Storage controller firmware upgrade using LSI GUI Application MSM for 9240-8i cards fail with "Controller Out of Memory Error".
Workaround
Release 1.4(2)
This section lists the open caveats for release 1.4(2):
Web Management
Symptom The WebUI DIMM "Operability" field in the memory inventory does not indicate failed DIMMs correctly.
Workaround
Related Documentation
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