RHBA-2011:1569 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated matahari packages that fix multiple bugs and add various enhancements
are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The matahari packages provide a set of APIs for operating system management that
are exposed to remote access over the Qpid Management Framework (QMF).

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, the matahari services agent could not monitor the status

of a system service. As a consequence, matahari could not be used in
high-availability (HA) environments where status monitoring is a requirement.
With this update, the user of the services agent can specify the frequency for
the status check and the matahari services agent can now provide service health
information for applications such as HA. (BZ#688193)

• Prior to this update, the wrong CPU core count was returned when requesting

the CPU core count from the matahari host agent. With this update, matahari and
the supporting library, sigar, have been modified to ensure that the core count
is not improperly affected by hyperthreading support. Now, the expected CPU core
count is returned. (BZ#714249)

• Prior to this update, the host agent included only time related metadata when

producing heartbeat events. As a consequence, it was problematic to associate
heartbeat events with the host they originated from, especially in logs. With
this update, the heartbeat events produced by the Host agent include the
hostname and the hardware's Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) as additional
metadata. Now, it is easier to associate the host agent heartbeat events with
the host they originated from. (BZ#729063)

• Prior to this update, the data address for matahari QMF objects was

inconsistent. As a consequence, the data address for some agents was the class
name, for others it was a UUID. This update uses consistently the class name as
the data address. Now, the data address across all matahari agents is
consistent. (BZ#732498)

This update adds the following enhancements:

• Prior to this update, matahari only supported IBM eServer xSeries 366, AMD64

and Intel 64 architectures. This update adds support for PowerPC and IBM System
z architectures as a Technology Preview. (BZ#663468)

• This update adds support for QMF to allow for kerberos authentication.

(BZ#688181)

• With this update, matahari includes an agent for system configuration to

support updating the system configuration with both puppet and augeas.
(BZ#688191)

• Prior to this update, users could only specify a hostname or IP address. As a

consequence, a dynamically updated list of brokers to connect to was not
provided. With this update, matahari supports querying for DNS SRV records to
determine the broker, or the list of brokers to connect to. Now administrators
can use DNS SRV to control where matahari agents connect to. (BZ#735419)

All users of matahari are advised to install these packages, which fix these
bugs 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
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 663468 - expand matahari to support PPC and zSeries architectures
• BZ - 688181 - support kerberos authentication in matahari
• BZ - 688191 - Matahari Agent for configuration
• BZ - 688193 - Implement recurring actions for Matahari Services Agent
• BZ - 688199 - Include common lib function for looking up broker info via DNS SRV records
• BZ - 709649 - fails to build without upstream patches
• BZ - 714249 - matahari host agent reports wrong cpu core count
• BZ - 727192 - agent property uuid: Failed to open file '/etc/machine-id'
• BZ - 727194 - matahari-sysconfig-console start unrecognized option '--daemon'
• BZ - 727954 - matahari agents core dump w/ sigar-1.6.5-0.2.git58097d9
• BZ - 727961 - RFE: matahari agent reconnect too verbose
• BZ - 728360 - matahari broker config issue in init script, SSL config fails to load
• BZ - 728631 - matahari agents fail to determine domain name for DNS SRV record query
• BZ - 728977 - matahari-host agent coredumps when connected broker stops
• BZ - 728988 - matahari agents fail to reconnect after broker restarted
• BZ - 729063 - RFE: include hostname in matahari-hostd heartbeat event
• BZ - 729331 - clean up matahari log messages
• BZ - 729332 - matahari-qmf-service-cli specifies two -P, displays error
• BZ - 729516 - matahari-consoles rpm non-fatal install error
• BZ - 730044 - matahari-host shutdown/reboot not graceful
• BZ - 730066 - matahari-host custom uuid problems
• BZ - 730087 - matahari sysconfig crashes
• BZ - 731433 - RFE: matahari init script shouldn't allow multiple instances of the same agent
• BZ - 731534 - matahari agents unable to connect to remote broker
• BZ - 731858 - matahari agents fail to use broker from DNS SRV record
• BZ - 731914 - matahari service seg fault on multiple method timeouts
• BZ - 732498 - Data addresses populated with class name
• BZ - 733013 - package matahari-selinux should not exists
• BZ - 733150 - matahari sysconfig crash on is_configured()
• BZ - 733384 - sysconfig core dump with bad scheme parmeter
• BZ - 733393 - sysconfig agent doesn't execute puppet script
• BZ - 733451 - matahari-sysconfig query() segfaults
• BZ - 733468 - RFE: better error messaging for resource invoke() failures
• BZ - 733483 - windows agents fail to connect to broker
• BZ - 734522 - matahari-qmf-service-cli needs to require resource instance name
• BZ - 734536 - timeout/interval inconsistency with matahari-qmf-service-cli
• BZ - 734981 - matahari-brokerd needs execute permission
• BZ - 735419 - Agents should support multiple SRV records
• BZ - 735426 - Add support for DNS SRV to matahari-brokerd
• BZ - 735429 - Matahari agents on Linux should connect to localhost only by default
• BZ - 736468 - garbage printed on get_ip_address("badNicValue")
• BZ - 737088 - Include man pages in Matahari package
• BZ - 737137 - sysconfig run methods return zero on bad data
• BZ - 737541 - upgrade missing hostname, matahari should pre-req sigar v1.6.5-0.3?
• BZ - 737618 - matahari upgrade fails to stop correct processes
• BZ - 739666 - uuid generation returns NULL on minimal installation profiles
• BZ - 739952 - mingw32-matahari services agent lists "LSB" as a valid standard
• BZ - 740038 - sysconfig times out with existing key
• BZ - 740090 - Sysconfig key handling can be used to read/write to/from any file on the system
• BZ - 740091 - Store sysconfig keys in a sub directory of /var/lib/matahari
• BZ - 741965 - special characters in key results in error
• BZ - 746084 - matahari services missing from chkconfig
• BZ - 751799 - spec file need to change require qmf-devel to qpid-qmf-devel

CVEs

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References

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