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Key Bug Fixes

The following defects have been resolved in the core CA AppLogic® 3.5 General Availability release:

• 4265: EDT: Safari styling problems
• 4573: EDT: "srv shutdown invalid" causes web shell to abort with error
• 5523: CAT: NAS appliance /etc/resolv.conf file is not being cleanup
• 5561: CAT: All appliance should have a meaningful Instance Name Template
• 5640: VPAT: CA AppLogic® Identifying Cols and rows in data tables criteria issue
• 6127: EDT: Open global grid shell If user not authorized for selected app
• 6629: Product: ESX: grid installation intermittently fails when using an NFS server
• 6678: EDT: Overlapping labels on Chrome 18
• 6713: APK (new-native): pagefile was not deleted after successful installation of Windows APK MSI with automation script.
• 6719: CAT: filer: volume browser help is redirecting to the CA AppLogic® 3.1 document
• 7059: EDT: terminal label text may overlap with terminal images
• 7093: EDT: Modify Boundary window should be adjusted according to screen size (ex: too big to view on laptops)
• 7109: CAT: VPN/VDSes: dns1, dns2 property type is set to string instead of IP
• 7120: WS_API: vdc info method with verbose flag is not working
• 7124: WS_API: Group modify without parameters returns success code instead of failing
• 7125: CLI: Group remove_principal returns success code for non-existing principal instead of failing
• 7130: Filer: Windows: _eXtplorer: volume name displayed as “unknown” in title bar
• 7144: CAT: MYSQLR* web console times out workaround: enable client TCP keepalives
• 7151: Product: MEI: ABS: raw interfaces are not working for windows 2003 appliances
• 7156: APK (new-native): Not able to generate the counter values for CPU summary and volume boot entities works for us, most likely not a bug
• 7159: EDT: No visual indication for drop down list to select VLAN and ip for a raw interface on the Application Configuration window
• 7173: CAT: Windows VDS does not enforce using IP addresses only from the allowed ranges (string vs ip addr prp type)
• 7199: EDT: web shells are closed automatically when number of live web-shells reaches the maximum limit
• 7203: CLI:UTL:wincfg: displays wrong message when component/application is in stopped state
• 7203: Product: wincfg: displays wrong message when component/application is in stopped state
• 7229: EDT: Application start fails silently on unsaved apps
• 7230: EDT: No user prompt when an unsaved application is closed
• 7231: EDT: Appliance status icons may get outside of the appliance box
• 7233: EDT: No button for saving/discarding in ‘Application Start/Restart’ dialog for the application changes before start/Restart of application
• 7234: EDT: PopUp dialog missing when starting the app from UI while vol repair is in progress
• 7238: EDT: Application Start Restart dialog layout is not properly displayed
• 7239: AL grid upgrades failed from 3.0 GA build to 3.5 Betarefresh build
• 7242: EDT: class names are converted to lowercase when dragged to canvas
• 7248: CLI: QTA: user id with description displayed in quota list even after destroyed
• 7255: APK (new-native): UI: Rt.click - Login(ssh) for Windows Filer provisioned application is failing during vol manage with external IP on ESX and Xen grids
• 7258: APK (new-native): IIS base package installation gets stuck during the install and does not work
• 7261: CLI (3tshell.help): The description for --debug and --cap_cpu options needs updating for application start/restart
• 7264: 3tcollect: The log information collected for servers are incorrect when a grid reboots in middle of the execution
• 7266: Product: NWHA: SAN server should be not considered when discovering the network changes "3t grid net_discover" command
• 7269: Product: cannot add a reference server when using a SAN for volume storage
• 7271: CLI (enh): Add support for specifying units when setting vol_repair_speed
• 7272: CLI: Help topics for grid and server set are missing a description of bw_oversubscription parameter
• 7274: Product: removing node from a Xen grid triggers a reboot of the grid controller
• 7275: EDT: Dashboard Network Info, remove "Lan" and change "prefix" to "Netmask"
• 7280: EDT: Pop-up layout is not properly displayed in Chrome19 browser
• 7284: EDT: Round Robin and Round Robin random are working vice versa from UI
• 7285: CLI:MEI:-with 'app config -d' resetting one interface, resets both the interfaces
• 7286: EDT: (enh) Disable Login menu options if application/appliance "not running"
• 7291: Product: sometimes grid info reports Volume Repair Speed as mixed on a fresh build grid
• 7304: EDT: Volume removed from app if app saved after delete volume fails
• 7308: VRM: Controller HA failure on 3 server grid
• 7317: CTL: appliance doesn't restart on the other server when the server was killed
• 7318: MON: IE9: OK button is not working in the New Graph window of MON GUI.
• 7334: CLI:Vol repair speed by default is shown as 9.77 MB/sec
• 7339: VRM: Grid running without controller HA as all 3 servers are in 'none' role
• 7347: EDT: Chrome:PopUp dialog missing when starting the app from UI while vol repair is in progress.
• 7350: EDT:[SAN] Provisioning of a VDS application is failing from UI, whereas from CLI it is working fine.
• 7353: WSAPI: vol create should not require "mirrored" parameter
• 7367: Product: Network interfaces fail on Xen Kernel 3.2.2.11 in version 3.5.12 for Dell 1950/2950 hardware
• 7369: APK (new-native): Automatic Updates are not disabled for Windows 2003 64-bit appliances
• 7370: CAT: VPN appliance client server connectivity is failing
• 7386: CLI: QTA: Wrong output with quota info command in batch mode for available resources
• 7388: Product: NW HA:-The network mode of non-HA/degraded grids is shown as active-passive with HA network disabled/enabled

The following defects have been resolved in the core CA AppLogic® 3.5 beta refresh release:

• 5638: VPAT: CA AppLogic® Text equivalent criteria issue
• 5640: VPAT: CA AppLogic® Identifying Cols and rows in data tables criteria issue.
• 5644: VPAT: CA AppLogic® Language of page criteria issue
• 5955: EDT: FF8: Monitoring graphs do not show on the browser
• 6383: APK (new-native): Issues with Windows automation script that is bundled with APK MSI
• 6511: CAT:-Issues with the BCK Appliance
• 6585: CLI: QTA: Quota limits not enforced except disk immediately after grid reboot
• 6587: CLI: "Put_acl" and "modify_acl" for objects allows multiple owners in the command
• 6652: _eXtplorer : Unable to open eXtplorer(i.e. Volume Browser) for NTFS volumes
• 6663: RBAC & CLI: the can_own attribute of a global group cannot be modified
• 6692: Product: ESX: SAN: controller volume migration from san to local fails
• 6694: CLI: QTA:3t quota modify parent="" does not clear parent
• 6695: CLI: QTA: quotas don't allow user quotas to be modified when maximum level of nested quotas is reached.
• 6696: Product: SAN: The controller restart after local to san migration got failed due to the issue that the loop device that is attached to the metadata volume is being used by another script
• 6704: EDT: Singleton appliance right click view boundary grayed out in view mode
• 6710: CLI: QTA: Dashboard messages for global users and groups not getting displayed
• 6714: WS_API: Invalid XML tags in quota info output
• 6720: EDT: Hidden property value visible when unhidden for an appliance.
• 6727: WS_API: No provision to change quota resource limit to unlimited
• 6735: APK(new-native): fscheck operation is failing with Windows Filer created using Filer_Windows-3.5.4.exe with error 'fsck' mode for filer that is not supported
• 6736: APK(new-native): Files are missing in C:\appliance folder after successful installation of SQL_Windows-3.5.4.exe
• 6737: Product: Running app migration failed when it contains NAS and NASR
• 6739: CLI: 3tctl: volumes migrated from san to local are not mirrored
• 6740: Product: Doc links from appliance GUIs not opening latest docs
• 6742: CLI: QTA: Dashboard messages are not deleted when owners primary group is changed
• 6747: WS_API: Quota list returns error when principal parameter is specified
• 6767: APK(new-native): Shutdown.exe is not copied to SYSWOW64 folder on the WIN0364S and WIN0364E appliances
• 6771: APK(new-native): Color Management settings were in-correct for WIN 2008 (64-bit) Web Edition and the screen(desktop) is not showing up properly
• 6773: APK(new-native): Configure IE Enhanced Security are not disabled for all the editions of 64-bit of WIN 2008 appliances
• 6774: APK(new-native): Windows Updates are not disabled for all the editions of 64-bit of WIN 2008 appliances
• 6790: Product: 3tcollect and 3taudit fail to execute on an upgraded 3.5 grid
• 6808: EDT:-Controller UI logs out when user tries to view/edit the applications (BackupHelper and MigHelper)
• 6837: CLI: QTA: Used resources are not updated after app clean operation
• 6868: EDT: Grid user with valid login access can escalate his permissions
• 6900: CLI: QTA: quota list does not produce output in batch mode when resources have 0 limit
• 6918: EDT: Alert the user that the application changes will take place only when the application is restarted
• 6931: WISA_r11 template not useable, fails start and basic config operations
• 6937: VPAT: CA AppLogic® login Language of page criteria issue
• 6971: CLI: QTA: Exceeded is yes for a User with 0 resource limits
• 6981: CLI: vol creation aborted due to segmentation fault (rare issue)
• 6986: CLI (3tmigrate) - catalog migration fails when executed by a regular user and --preserve_xxx is specified
• 6997: 3tcollect: unable to successfully run 3tcollect on a running grid from the BFC
• 7000: VPAT: screen reader is unable to interpret the Resources graph using the colors
• 7011: EDT: Failed to update package desciptor file when we add and remove MEI interfaces
• 7032: Product: multiple apps can be incorrectly started using the same IP addresses
• 7046: RBAC: Removing a user from a his primary group leaves the group as the user's primary group
• 7052: Product: application migration: "Migrate from” is failing when used in GUI
• 7071: EDT:application migration ("Migrate To") is failing from 3.5.9 to 3.1
• 7088: Product: ESX: "grid set" command with switch ID throws unwanted error message after successful setting the required switch as "active"
• 7123: WS_API:Group put with principal parameter is not working
• 7134: Product: network HA: previously downed NICs are not re-discovered after rebooting the server and restoring the network
• 7137: network ha on external network does not work with 10/100mbps switches.
• 7142: Product: Xen: CA AppLogic® 3.5.7 kernel (v3.2.2) fails to boot on specific hardware when ioatdma is enabled
• 7146: EDT: No alert is displaying from editor window for a locked appliance when we tried to view class descriptor
• 7158: CLI: app config reports syntax error after clearing the iface connection
• 7170: CLI: QTA no dashboard messages displayed when quota for a user is added
• 7171: CLI: QTA: 3t user/group destroy does not delete quota dashboard messages
• 7180: APK (new-native): Windows Filer: boot volume resize operation sometimes fails
• 7201: EDT: Various issues when using FireFox 13
• 7209: APK (new-native): Unable to create NTFS volumes on ESX and Xen grids using the latest version (3.5.10) of APK/EXEs
• 7213: EDT: Chrome unload events not handled properly
• 7235: Product: Controller VM does not migrate when primary server role is changed using "set srv role" command in a 2 node grid
• 7250: EDT: start/restart dialogs should set start button to be the default
• 7251: Product: Security Vulnverability
• 7252: ABS: ESX: changing the network settings incorrectly requires a grid reboot for the changes to take effect

The following defects were resolved in the core CA AppLogic® 3.5 beta initial release:

• SCR 6160: Product: Security vulnerability
• SCR 6235: Product: Notes section in help of hvm2pv utility displays mismatch about state of aplication while executing hvm2pv
• SCR 6406: CPL: Unable to provision same application in different grids at the same time
• SCR 6078: EDT: Chrome: Changes are not saved in the infrastructure editor window
• SCR 6127: EDT: Open global grid shell if user not authorized for selected app
• SCR 6224: EDT: wrong message when try to drag appliance from catalog in view mode
• SCR 6572: EDT: The dialog button not big enough in error prompt dialog
• SCR 6203: CLI: ‘modify group –principal’ does not work when directly using user/group name
• SCR 6204: CLI: Inconsistency between "user" vs. "usr", when name contains non-AlphaNumeric characters
• SCR 6220: CLI: 3tcat import does not clean properly on fail/abort
• SCR 6399: CLI: 3tsrv: does not list the used block devices on an ESX server
• SCR 6563: CLI: perl warnings when importing an app with local catalog
• SCR 6567: CLI: app stop --all fails to stop all the apps if one of the apps is stopped explicitly while the operation is in progress
• SCR 6587: CLI: "Put_acl" and "modify_acl" for objects allows multiple owners in the command
• SCR 6640: CLI: An objects ”put_acl” fails to associate a user as a owner which is recreated
• SCR 6663: CLI: the can_own attribute of a global group cannot be modified
• SCR 5638: VPAT: missing alt text tags for html elements
• SCR 5641: VPAT: Assigned titles to the iframes in Application, Dashboard, logs and Support tabs
• SCR 5644: VPAT: Sets lang attribute on all except doc pages
• SCR 6232: VPAT: Fixed duplicate ID attribute discovered by QA
• SCR 6231: VPAT: Unable to Sort Application List and Navigate Toolbar Buttons Using Keyboard Only
• SCR 6232: VPAT: Parsing criteria - missing open/end tags
• SCR 6233: VPAT: Missing lang attribute
• SCR 6234: VPAT: Screen reader unable to read toolbar buttons and log msgs
• SCR 6140: WS_API: Doesn't work with couple app config parameters: --d mem.min and --template=App1
• SCR 6269: WS_API: WS_API App does not return any value or message for unsupported calls
• SCR 6610: WS_API: Incorrect error code returned for 'group put_newobj_acl' and 'grid put_acl'

The following BFC defects have been resolved in the CA AppLogic® 3.5 release:

• SCR 6069: LDAP loses cached data on BFC restart
• SCR 6131: BFC upgrade stuck at console if yum is locked
• SCR 6219: Race condition in Xen Deployment code which can cause GridOS deployment failures
• SCR 6229: "=" operator does not work for "Discovery Date" property in Edit smart tag window
• SCR 6230: In Edit smart tag window "Value" field for "Total Disk Capacity" property will not work for decimal values
• SCR 6262: Edit smart tag window does not display servers with required tag
• SCR 6275: BFC: Servers are not getting discovered after reinstalling the BFC
• SCR 6298: BFC API: Some wrong information present in output of Grid List Call
• SCR 6337: Incorrect network inventory data in network HA environment
• SCR 6344: Unable to add a new MAC address (es) to the existing MAC list through a text file.
• SCR 6355: Inventory info is not shown for server discovered in quarantined mode
• SCR 6379: Version delete can hang if done immediately after version import
• SCR 6425: BFC upgrade from 3.1.0 to 3.5.0 fails if there are grids that were never started
• SCR 6439: External storage test fails in Admin tab if other mandatory fields are not specified yet
• SCR 6442: Bare Metal: want to have support for USB disk in addition to memory stick
• SCR 6461: Grid servers sometimes failed to boot into Xen grid correctly due to timing issue
• SCR 6490: API: Remove of GNS criteria from a grid is not working
• SCR 6500: "Select All" checkbox not functioning for External and Power network tabs
• SCR 6538: Servers whose backbone connection are not GigE are allowed to go into a grid
• SCR 6554: BMI: Password / Password containing all alphabets, special characters, and numbers are not working
• SCr 6564: API: API call accepts the grid ID update but the grid subsequently fails
• SCR 6608: CentOS boots to grub prompt post BMI if second disk was chosen in disk layout screen
• SCR 6625: Grid creation fails if the license key is mentioned during the grid creation.
• SCR 6641: In the Grid Create wizard on Chrome the buttons on the bottom are cut off
• SCR 6665: Grids properties page-> Xen/VMware tab does not show scrollbar if more tag criteria values are specified.
• SCR 6668: Powering off a server via ssh shutdown can lead to ssh hangs in some instances
• SCR 6688: DR hung at "waiting for client interface..."
• SCR 6722: BFC service fails to start if NFS server hosting the data base replica goes offline and subsequently stop_replication script is run
• SCR 6796: Nnfs mount fails due to leading "/" on path
• SCR 6872: BMI recovery Failed with both NFS Share and USB Drive
• SCR 7005: IP addresses that are pingable by the BFC prevents Grid creation on tagged VLANs
• SCR 7018: Grid controller IPs are not released from untagged VLAN in-use IP list even after grid is deleted
• SCR 7087: BFC service restart takes up to two hours to finish
• SCR 7126: BFC upgrade fails when 3.1 grid is configured with multiple external networks and VLANs
• SCR 7117: Controller VM does not failover to the Secondary server in a 2 Node Grid when the primary Server is killed
• SCR 7040: "Incorrect VMware Servers count after SLA is increased, if no matching servers are found"

The following BFC defects have been resolved in the BFC 3.5.1 release:

• SCR 7625: Backbone with non-24 CIDR causes an issue for PXE
• SCR 7523: If a subnet is deleted in 3.1 which is used for application ips in a grid, upgrade will fail
• SCR 7503: Several values on a grid can't be set via the BFC API (Striping, DNS, Time server)
• SCR 7526: Inventory process incorrectly reports STP status in some cases
• SCR 7527: Scalability: Grid delete with many networks/vlans defined takes a long time
• SCR 7659: Grid monitoring can stack up "grid info" calls into the grid controller
• SCR 7675: VLAN-Server goes to quarantine state when external BFC’s switch port and server’s switch ports are in “access” and “trunk” modes respectively
• SCR 7312: Unattended install fails with password !"$%&/()=?'

The following BFC defects have been resolved in the BFC 3.5.2 release:

• SCR 7363: VLAN ID 0 is not permitted in BFC 3.5
• SCR 7411: BMI: Invalid check for ownership permissions on NFS Replica DB path during BMI
• SCR 7595: grid start order does not get grid controller started first
• SCR 7614: Server state shows incorrectly as Failed Running after reboot of 44 node grid
• SCR 7629: Server state for 60 node grid shows wrongly as “Joining Grid” due to collector timeout while running “3t grid info”
• SCR 7630: BFC UI unresponsive upon deletion of 10 servers (environment specific)
• SCR 7637: BFC operations are stuck after 30 sequential grid creation jobs are submitted
• SCR 7697: Improve UI performance when displaying external networks & for displaying them in grid create
• SCR 7698: When displaying VLANs, the UI takes too long
• SCR 7702: Grid handling of default VLAN during a BFC upgrade can cause the upgrade to fail
• SCR 7713: BFC start is very slow with large numbers of networks/VLANs
• SCR 7733: VLAN creation slowed by lookup of {subnet,user}_reserved pools
• SCR 7746: Slow performance when creating large numbers of subnets and vlans
• SCR 7747: Modifying grid application IPs needs to scale and perform
• SCR 7753: Grids go to uctl_breached after BFC upgrade from 3.5.0 to 3.5.2
• SCR 7754: Lots of redundant LDAP transactions being created which take a long time to replay during LDAP restore.
• SCR 7760: BFC quarantines servers after intermittent IPMI errors
• SCR 7763: Subnet and VLAN deletes take too long at scale
• SCR 7768: Deletion of 300 VLANs from a running grid gets stuck
• SCR 7770: db_restore does not restore bfcadmin key
• SCR 7776: Deletion of multiple grids caused BFC service restart
• SCR 7778: erlang container gets "too many processes" error at large scale
• SCR 7790: BFC start hangs on networking app
• SCR 7823: BFC: Updating application IPs and controller IP of a grid is not working
• SCR 7825: BFC: Adding 2000 VLANs to multiple grids simultaneously caused BFC service restart
• SCR 7832: Inventory Memory Calculation for older hardware ( Super Micro) is not correct
• SCR 7839: BFC: BFC UI is hanged for long time during deletion of grid with 2000 VLANs
• SCR 7843: At scale, grid update app ips operation blocks grids for a long time at BFC start
• SCR 7854: IP ranges grid is slow for select all and other things
• SCR 7885: Upgrading a BFC from 3.0 or 3.1 to 3.5.X can create duplicate grid ip ranges in the property