HP Array Configuration Utility
Version 9.0.24.0 - 2/2/2012


Description
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  The HP Array Configuration Utility (ACU) is the web-based 
  disk configuration utility for array controllers.
  
* All other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their 
  respective companies.

Support
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Supported Operating Systems

  32bit Platforms:
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, 11

  64bit Platforms:
  SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64)
  SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (x86_64)
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86_64)
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (x86_64) with the "Compatibility Package" installed to include the 32-bit libraries.
  
  * All these platforms need to have the following drivers upgrades:  
  CPQARRAY driver version 2.4.25 or later
  CISS driver version 2.4.50 or later

  These drivers and Fibre Channel HBA drivers are available from http://www.hp.com.

   
Supported Client Side Browsers

  Netscape 6.2 and Mozilla 1.5 or later with Personal Security Manager (mozilla-psm) on Linux.
  Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or above 
  on Microsoft Windows 2000 or Microsoft Windows Server 2003.

  * Please make sure the following browser options are enabled:
    1. Automatically load images and other data types.
    2. JAVA script.
    3. Style sheet.


Supported Controllers

  Smart Array 5312 Controller
  Smart Array 5302 Controller
  Smart Array 5304 Controller
  Smart Array 532 Controller
  Smart Array 5i Controller
  Integrated Smart Array Controller
  Smart Array 4200 Controller
  Smart Array 4250ES Controller
  Smart Array 431 Controller
  Smart Array 3200 Controller
  MSA500 Controller
  MSA1000 Controller
  Smart Array 641 Controller
  Smart Array 642 Controller
  Smart Array 6400 Controller
  Smart Array 6400 EM Controller
  Smart Array 6i Controller
  MSA500 G2 Controller
  MSA1500 CS Controller
  MSA20 Controller
  Smart Array P600 Controller
  Smart Array P400 Controller
  Smart Array P400i Controller
  Smart Array E200 Controller
  Smart Array E200i Controller
  Smart Array P800 Controller
  Smart Array E500 Controller
  Smart Array P700m Controller
  Smart Array P410i Controller
  Smart Array P411 Controller
  Smart Array P212 Controller
  Smart Array B110i SATA RAID
  Smart Array P712m Controller
  Smart Array P812 Controller
  Smart Array P220i Controller
  Smart Array P222 Controller
  Smart Array P420 Controller
  Smart Array P420i Controller
  Smart Array P421 Controller
 
Installing & Running the Array Configuration Utility
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  Installation:
    ACU requires "HP's System Management Homepage" installed. If you have not
    installed "HP's System Management Homepage", please download and install 
    it from hp.com first.
    ACU is distributed using Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) packages. 
    If there is an older version of ACU (or ACU-XE) installed on the system, 
	please use "rpm -e cpqacuxe" to remove it first. Use "rpm -i <file name>" 
	to install the service.
    Please type "man rpm" for other details regarding RPM.
    The software resides in /opt/compaq/cpqacuxe and the executable 
    name is cpqacuxe which is located in /usr/sbin.

  Run the ACU server:
  
    Make sure that you have gone through the following checklist:
    . Only run ACU on servers that are on a local intranet
      or a secure network.
    . Secure the management port (port 2301) on your network.
    . You run cpqacuxe as root.

    To start the server:
    If /usr/sbin is already added in your path, just type:
    "cpqacuxe" for local access only or 
    "cpqacuxe -R" for remote access.
    More options can be found by "cpqacuxe --help".

  Run the ACU client:
    1. Open your browser (Netscape Navigator 6.2 or Mozilla 1.5 on Linux or 
    Internet Explorer 5.5 or above on Microsoft Windows 2000).

    If remote access is enabled:
    2a. Type "http://SERVERNAME:2301" into the url field. The servername should 
       be the IP address or server name of the host on which the ACU server
       is running.

    If remote access is disabled:
    2b. Type "http://127.0.0.1:2301" into the url field on the machine on which
       the ACU server is running.

    3. You are required to log in as an Administrator in "HP's System Management 
       Homepage". Please refer to the online help of the System Management Homepage 
       for the account management details.

    4. Click the ACU button near the bottom of the screen.

  Exiting ACU:
    1. To exit the ACU client, close the browser by clicking on the Exit link.
    2. To exit the ACU server, type "cpqacuxe -stop".
    
    
 LocalApp Mode:
  Starting with the 8.35.x.x releases, cpqacuxe can be run in local application mode 
  under Linux. In this scenario, the Systems Management Homepage is not required to
  be installed. To invoke, enter the following at the command prompt: 
		
		cpqacuxe -nosmh
		
  The command will start ACU in a new Firefox browser window. When the
  browser window is closed, ACU will automatically stop. This is only valid
  for the loopback interface, and not visible to external network connections.


Additional Notes
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  1.  Users will automatically be logged out after a predetermined period of 
      inactivity when using ACU and will have to re-login.  
  2.  System Management Homepage login timeouts will not work properly while 
      running ACU unless the "Anonymous Access" option is checked on the 
      System Management Homepage under "Settings->Options". 
      If you decide not to check "Anonymous Access" and a login timeout occurs,
      the System Management Homepage login screen will appear in an ACU frame
      and will not work correctly. If this happens, close the ACU browser
      and go back to the System Management Homepage and re-login as administrator.
      Click on the Array Configuration Utility link to restart the ACU session.
  3.  When clicking on a controller that is currently being configured in a different 
      ACU session, a message will appear which allows you to override the other 
      ACU session or cancel. If you choose to override the other ACU session, 
      any unsaved changes in the other session will be discarded.
  4.  To properly exit out of ACU session, click on the Exit link in the
      ACU window.
  5.  ACU is best viewed in Netscape with Verdana and Arial fonts. It is 
      recommended that you install these fonts.
  6.  After creating or deleting logical drives with ACU, under some special 
      circumstances, the device name mapping might change after you first reboot
      the system. Also, Linux might see previously not visible logical drives after 
      rebooting. This name mapping problem is common to all SCSI devices on 
      linux. Please refer to drive_reordering.htm in the installation directory
      for detailed explanation.
  7.  Do not insert or remove a controller driver module when cpqacuxe is running.
  8.  Please stop the HP Storage Agents when deleting logical drives
      since HP Storage Agents keeps all logical drives open.
  9.  If all physical drives on a controller fail or are removed, software keys will 
      not be saved to the controller.
  10. When using Mozilla or Netscape, dragging and dropping pages in ACU
      frames is not supported.
  11. If you have logged into the Device Homepage through http://localhost:2301, 
      on Netscape 6.2, attempts to access the ACU will fail.  You must first log out, 
		then access the device homepage using http://127.0.0.1:2301, log in, and then 
		access the ACU.
  12. ACU may appear unresponsive during heavy array controller I/O conditions, such as
      during a partition format or a logical drive rebuild.
  13. Some browsers allow pop-ups to be turned off or blocked.  For ACU to run, pop-ups
      must be enabled in the browser.
  14. When running ACU with Mozilla, drop-down list controls may not appear until 
      the field has been clicked multiple times. For example, the drop-down list of 
      stripe sizes will not appear until the Stripe Size selection field has been 
      clicked multiple times. The input fields normally turn yellow when clicked under 
      Mozilla, but instead of turning yellow on the first click, the first click gives 
      the field focus, the second click turns the field yellow, and the third click 
      displays the drop-down list of stripe sizes.
  15. Clicking on "Rescan Controllers" rapidly several times in a row may cause ACU to
      show no controllers detected. If this occurs, wait for the outstanding rescans 
      to complete. Click on "Rescan Controllers" only once and wait until it is 
      complete.
  16. On SLES9 systems, after deleting logical drives, please reboot the system or reload 
      the driver to sync up the OS's volume devices with the controller.
  17. When using Linux as the host operating system, if a Smart Array controller has 16
      or more volumes configured, deleting any volume in the ACU will not update the
      /proc/partitions to reflect the deletion of the device node associated with that
      volume. Rebooting the server will cause the update to happen. Note that there is
      also a limitation that only the first 16 volumes configured will be available to
      the operating system.
         
Feedback
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  For support for ACU or Smart Array controllers, please visit the web at 
    http://support.hp.com.
  For feedback or suggestions on ACU, please send comments to acu@hp.com;
    however, we regret support cannot be provided through this address.