any bad experience with PSP 7.60 ?

[Juergen.Kopp]

Hi all,
I want to know, which Proliant Support Pack you prefer. I installed PSP 7.60A on 10 servers and on one of them (prev. PSP7.30) the NIC teaming settins were lost. Would you recommend to install a newest PSP or it's better to use the next to last one (7.51)?
Thx for any feedback.
Cop

[Rob Buxton · Accepted solution]

I'd go for 7.60.
There are issues with 7.51 where if you remove or add sub-agents then the SMH gets into a mess and will not show all details and the VCA stops working.
The only fix is a reboot. 7.60 fixed that.
That's my 2c worth.

[Rancher]

I have had troubles with the NIC teaming with every PSP I have installed. For that matter, just updating the NIC drivers on server 2003 has caused many headaches. I still go with the latest PSP, after testing.

[Ondra Ernyei]

Hello,

I can also confess that losing teaming configuration after installing the NIC driver is a typical problem since a long time. Only workaround is to do the configuration manually after applying the patch.

Cheers,

Ondra

[OlivierV]

I also had some troubles with the NIC teaming. See this thread too :http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1071416

[Lars Nilsson_1]

About the problem with PSP breaking NIC teaming - Have you tried to edit the XML-file discussed in the last post in this thread?

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=1034017

[Juergen.Kopp]

Thx Lars,
Jim Miller's solution sounds very plausibly.
In fact, the NIC driver package cp006641.exe placed before NetConfig utility cp006331.exe in the bp000286.xml (PSP 7.60).
Could somebody confirm this workaround helped?
Regards,
Cop

[Ken Horn]

Using 7.60 will depend on the server. I have a couple of DL380G2 with RILOE boards that register minor status even though there is nothing wrong (have checked all the normal suspects for this on the RILOE such as power and memory resets after BIOS upgrade). Reverting to 7.51 on these servers resolved the problem. All other servers I've tried seem to work just fine with 7.60.