Summary for Patch 396 (Verified)

Version 4.9.0.2

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Summary Client update needed to allow for new perl version
Platform Unix
Category functionality
Requires
Server Required Patch/es
Supersedes 367, 357, 349, 328, 267, 325
Superseded by
Affects Client: Core
Last Updated September 30, 2009

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Description

Update to avoid a conflict with an internal perl function. Needed when
updating to new perl version. The patch also includes small pacct fix.

NOTE: If an OpeniT server resides on the same host, patch #397 must
be installed together with patch #396.

Supersedes Patch Description

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Patch 367 — Improve control of pacct data collection
This patch adds an additional configuration parameter

  PACCT_OFFSET

to

  /etc/opt/openit/openit.cfg

which can be used to tune the timing of pacct data collection.
This parameter takes an offset value (in seconds) that will be
added to the default collection times specified by PACCT_RESTART.

E.g

  PACCT_RESTART   86400
  PACCT_OFFSET     7200

will make pacct be collected once every 24 hours. The collection
is shifted 2 hours + a random offset (1-3600 seconds) after midnight.
The random offset is not configurable and is intended to help prevent
all clients from trying to transfer data at the same time.
Patch 357 — Extpacct: Validity check for time stamps. Fewer warnings in syslog.
Extended pacct: End time as calculated from ps output is checked not
to be in far future.  The log message given when a field in the ps
output it too wide, is now a debug message, not a warning. This will
reduce the number of monips entries in syslog.
Patch 349 — Fix parsing of sar output (kbswpfree) on Linux with systat 5
In the latest version of the sysstat package (which contains sar)
the memory usage fields have been changed a bit. This update
adds checking of the field headers to determine wheter it's
systat 5 or an earlier version and sets field position according
to this test.
Patch 328 — Minor improvement in network protocol
A slight improvement in protocol when exchanging string/file
sizes in the protocol. The protocol will now try to
send size values in single chunks and not byte by byte. Some
extra error handling has also been added.
Patch 267 — Increased merge precision in extended pacct.
Processes recorded with pacct and ps are merged in a better manner.
Patch 325 — Fix data conversion of sar data on AIX 5
The number of header lines for AIX 5 sar output varies. Updated 
parsing to handle any number of header lines in output.

Installation

Unpack tar file in e.g /tmp/patch on the Open iT client. Do the
following as root:

  cd /tmp/patch
  ./patch.pl

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