This Readme contains information about NetIQ Cloud Manager 2.1.5 issues you might encounter. The Readme is divided into the following sections:
The following issues might be encountered during Cloud Manager installation:
The Cloud Manager Orchestration installation media does not include the RHEL monitoring packages.
If you want to monitor RHEL resources, we recommend that you download Ganglia 3.1.7 from the SourceForge Web site and install it on the resources to be monitored. Create a .conf file similar to one that exists on a SLES machine, editing the node name in the file so that the monitoring metrics display for the resource in the Orchestration Console.
If you do not install the Cloud Manager Monitoring Server package during the installation of the Cloud Manager Orchestration components, later attempts to set up the server for high availability by running the zos_server_ha_post_config.sh script fail.
Workaround: If you intend to use the Orchestration Server in a high availability environment, you must install the Cloud Manager Monitoring Server package with it.
For information about the Cloud Manager Monitoring installation pattern, see Cloud Manager Monitoring Server Pattern
in the NetIQ Cloud Manager 2.1.5 Installation Planning Guide.
For information about installing the Monitoring pattern in YaST, see Step 5 in the Installing the Orchestration Server to a SLES 11 Pacemaker Cluster Environment
procedure of the NetIQ Cloud Manager 2.1.5 Orchestration Server High Availability Configuration Guide.
For information about configuring Cloud Manager Orchestration Monitoring, see Configuring the Monitoring Server and Monitoring Agent
in the NetIQ Cloud Manager 2.1.5 Orchestration Installation Guide.
The following issues might be encountered during Cloud Manager installation:
If you are upgrading from a version of Cloud Manager earlier that 2.1.4 and if your current Cloud Manager environment has resource groups that include repositories, it is necessary to execute a command at the Karaf console of the Cloud Manager Application Server after you upgrade to version 2.1.5 and before you start the upgraded workloads.
cm:repo-groups-upgrade
The command executes a number of operations:
Ensures that the NCM_RGRepository policy is deployed on the Orchestration Server.
Ensures that the repository group is created on the Cloud Manager 2.1.5 Orchestration Server.
Sets the resource.vm.ncm.repository_group fact on the VMs that are associated with a resource group.
You should also run the command when you create a new workload in an upgraded business service or when you import a VM and associate it with an upgraded resource group.
The following issues might be encountered with the Cloud Manager Application components:
A Cloud Manager user might see intermittent display problems in the Cloud Manager Web console interface where some tabs are not properly displayed.
If you encounter this problem, we recommend that you restart the Cloud Manager Application Server.
When you attempt to save more than one Cloud Manager .pdf report from a Firefox browser (version 15.0.1) while viewing the Cloud Manager Application Server Console, attempts to save more than one .pdf report fail.
Workaround: Log out of the console and log back in to save one report at a time, or use another browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, to view and save multiple reports in .pdf format in the same session.
If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 with the Google Chrome Frame plug-in and a self-signed security certificate (in a test environment) to view the Cloud Manager Application Server console, and if you try to launch a remote session of a workload in a business service, the remote session fails.
Testing has shown that the failure occurs because Chrome Frame does not allow a self-signed security certificate.
Workaround: You can force Chrome Frame to accept the self-signed certificate as a trusted root in Windows by using the following steps:
NOTE:This procedure is effective only if the VNC proxy is configured to use the same certificate as the Cloud Manager Application Server console.
Open Internet Explorer as an Administrator, then, using Internet Explorer to open the Cloud Manager console, note the warning from the browser about an unrecognized certificate.
At the warning dialog, specify that you want to continue to the Website.
In the browser address bar, click the certificate warning, then click .
In the certificate pop-up, click then click .
HINT:The button does not display unless you are running the browser as Administrator.
Select , then click .
From the list, select , then click , click , then click .
At the confirmation dialog, click , then, at the next confirmation dialog, click.
At the certificate popup, click .
Test the workaround by closing the browser and reopening it to the Cloud Manager console. You should not see a certificate warning and you should be able to connect to the console using the Chrome Frame plug-in.
The following issues might be encountered with the Cloud Manager Orchestration components:
The following information is included in this section:
NetIQ Cloud Manager deploys workloads managed by the VMware ESX hypervisor only into resource pools that have been configured on an associated cluster. This requires that the Cloud Manager administrator assign these VMware resource pools to NetIQ Cloud Manager resource groups.
The following information is included in this section:
Testing has shown that using the Citrix XenServer (xenserv) provisioning adapter to provision a workload fails to properly set the repository.vmhosts fact to the set of XenServer hosts that can access the repository. This behavior is revealed if the display name of the datastore in XenCenter is “storage.”
Workaround: Rename the “storage” repository in XenCenter, then in the Orchestration Console click .
Documentation for custom job/policy writing is now archived in older versions (that is, Cloud Manager 2.1.1 and previous) of the product documentation. The most current Job Development Guide can be found in the .zip file of product manuals at the product documentation Web site in > > . The file is ncm2_orch_developer.pdf.
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