RHBA-2011:0033 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated Conga packages that fix numerous bugs and add enhancements are now
available.

Description

The Conga project is a management system for remote workstations. It
consists of luci, which is a secure web-based front-end, and ricci, which
is a secure daemon that dispatches incoming messages to underlying
management modules.

This update applies the following bug fixes:

• Support for configuring the fence_ifmib, fence_cisco_mds, fence_ucs, and

fence_ilo_mp fencing agents has been added (BZ#637216, BZ#626817, BZ#637222,
BZ#628102)

• Support for configuring the "power_wait" attribute for fencing agents has been

added (BZ#584633)

• Support for designating resources in a service as non-critical has been added

(BZ#637259)

• Support for configuring broadcast network operation (instead of multicast) has

been added (BZ#525802)

• Support for configuring KVM VM resources has been updated (BZ#603114)
• Support for the fence_vmware fencing agent has been updated (BZ#590311)
• Support for deleting a failover domain has been added (BZ#555862)
• A bug that caused luci to timeout when communicating with ricci clients has

been fixed (BZ#564490)

• A bug that caused configuration of fence_drac5 to not populate the

cluster.conf correctly has been fixed (BZ#577913)

• The configuration of quorum disk has been updated (BZ#606509)
• A bug that caused adding new cluster nodes to sometimes fail has been fixed

(BZ#612300)

• A bug that caused configuring SAP database resources when using the Internet

Explorer web browser to fail has been fixed (BZ#513004)

• Support for configuring the Oracle resource type has been updated (BZ#587399)
• A bug that caused some valid hostnames to be rejected when added in the create

cluster or add node dialogs has been fixed (BZ#501780)

• A bug that caused the "auth" and "password" attributes to not be stored for

the fence_ipmilan fencing agent has been fixed (BZ#533246)

• Help output has been added to ricci (BZ#602459)
• Support for configuring fstype as xfs and ext4 in filesystem resources has

been added (BZ#636554)

• Man pages for ricci and luci_admin have been added (BZ#602362)
• Support for the new "orainstance" and "oralistener" resource agents has been

added. (BZ#493662)

All Conga users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
resolve these issues and add these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 493662 - RFE: Separate the Oracle 10g Failover Instance in Conga to two resources called "Oracle Instance" and "Oracle Listener".
• BZ - 501780 - Luci invalidates some "system hostnames" that are valid
• BZ - 513004 - Conga does not remember SAP database type in IE6/8 from shared resource
• BZ - 525802 - RFE - Request configuration of new broadcast option of openais integrated into conga
• BZ - 533246 - Conga does not write "auth" or "password" when creating IPMI LAN fence device
• BZ - 555862 - Luci does not have an option to delete failover domain
• BZ - 564490 - Luci will randomly timeout communicating with ricci clients
• BZ - 577913 - Fence_drac5 will not popluate the luci interface correctly when adding fence device to node
• BZ - 582348 - Remove the "interface" field from the multicast configuration dialog
• BZ - 587399 - Clarification on "type" when configuring oracledb resources
• BZ - 590311 - luci vmware fencing gui and fence_vmware script parameter conflict
• BZ - 602362 - ricci and luci_admin do not have man pages
• BZ - 602459 - ricci doesn't provide usage information when run with -h (or --help)
• BZ - 603114 - Can't create KVM guest resources without a path to the XML file
• BZ - 606509 - luci requires wrongly requires users to fill interval / minimum score / votes fields for qdisk configuration
• BZ - 612300 - conga will fail to start a new node that is added via luci
• BZ - 628102 - Support for iLO MP fence agent missing
• BZ - 636554 - Support ext4 and xfs file systems in conga for file system agents
• BZ - 637222 - [Cisco 5.6 feat] Include Cisco UCS Fencing Agent
• BZ - 637259 - RFE: Critical/Non-Critical services & resources luci support
• BZ - 639096 - Add luci support for configuring fence_rhevm

CVEs

(none)

References

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