Date: November, 2005

	About this interim fix

This readme describes the Tivoli Inventory, Version 4.2.1, interim fix 
4.2.1-INV-0020. This interim fix provides the support for the following platforms:

- Sun Solaris Operating Environment for IA32, Version 8, 9, 10
- Sun Solaris Operating Environment for AMD64, Version 10


It includes the following sub-sections:

- Extracting the interim fix
- Compatibility, interoperability and prerequisites
- Included interim fixes 
- Fixed problems
- Traditional interim fix installation
- Limitations

	Extracting the interim fix
	Extracting the interim fix

1) Copy the interix fix contents into a scratch directory, suppose $PATCH.


2) From this directory, untar the 4.2.1-INV-0020.tar file as follows:
    tar -xvf 4.2.1-INV-0020.tar
   
    Under the $PATCH directory, the /images directory is created.

     /images      Contains Software Distribution Server and Gateway components 



	Compatibility, interoperability and prerequisites

This section contains information about the compatibility, interoperability and 
prerequisites of IBM Tivoli Inventory, Version 4.2.1, interim fix 4.2.1-INV-0020. 
The terms compatibility, interoperability and prerequisites are defined in the following sections.

. Product compatibility

Compatibility is defined as whether different versions of a Tivoli product can communicate
with different version of Tivoli Management Framework.
IBM Tivoli Inventory, Version 4.2.1 Interim Fix 4.2.1-INV-0020 was tested using 
IBM Tivoli Inventory, Version 4.2.1 Interim Fix 4.2.1-INV-0019, that contains the 
following fixes: 

- 4.2.1-INV-0019 interim fix for Tivoli servers and managed nodes
- 4.2.1-INVGW-0019 interim fix for Tivoli gateways


. Interoperability

Interoperability is defined as whether different versions of the same Tivoli product 
can communicate with each other.


. Prerequisites

This interim fix prerequisites IBM Tivoli Inventory, Version 4.2.1, 
Tivoli Management Framework, Version 4.1.1 and the following interim fix for endpoints:

	Tivoli Framework Interim Fix 4.1.1-LCF-0032 for Solaris-ix86  (build 11/16)


	Fixes included in this interim fix

The following list describes the fixes included in this interim fix:

Interim fix	                     Component/Service	

4.2.1-INVSRV-0020		Inventory, Version 4.2.1, Interim Fix 4.2.1-INVSRV-0020 (Solaris on ix86 support)	 
4.2.1-INVGW-0020 		Inventory Gateway, Version 4.2.1, Interim Fix 4.2.1-INVGW-0020 (Solaris on ix86 support)



	Fixed problems

The code level for this interim fix is the same shipped with 4.2.1-INV-0019.
For more details refer to the specific readme files.


Traditional Interim Fix Installation
	

You can install the interim fixes 4.2.1-INVSRV-0020 and 4.2.1-INVGW-0020
using any of the following different installation mechanisms:

- Installing interim fixes using the Tivoli desktop
- Installing interim fixes using the CLI


	Installing interim fixes using the Tivoli desktop

When installing interim fixes using the Tivoli desktop, the images are located in the $PATCH/images 
directory (from 4.2.1-INV-0020.tar). The Tivoli desktop can upgrade the same product on 
multiple machines serially.
The basic procedure for using the Tivoli desktop to upgrade a product is as follows:

1. From the Tivoli desktop, select Install -> Install Patch from the Desktop menu.
2. Select the media and component to be upgraded.
3. Select the machines where the component is to be upgraded.
4. Click Install.

For detailed information about using the Tivoli desktop to install or upgrade products, 
see Tivoli Enterprise Installation Guide. 

	Installing interim fixes using the CLI 
When upgrading products using the wpatch command, specify the name of the index file 
using the file shown in below. When using the wpatch command to upgrade a product, 
you specify the following information on the command line:

- The location of the image on the installation media.
- The name of the index file associated with the product to be installed or upgraded.
- The machines where the image is to be installed.

Example:

wpatch -c $PATCH/images -i <index file> <managed node>

where:

-c $PATCH/images Specifies the path where images are located
-i <index file> Specifies the product installation index file to which the interim fix is 
                 installed.
<managed node>  Specifies the managed node on which the interim fix is installed.

If you do not specify a machine when running the wpatch command, the image is installed on 
all managed nodes in the Tivoli region when there is a prior version of this image.
For detailed information about using the wpatch command, see Tivoli Management Framework 
Reference Manual. The following list contains a list of .IND files you can find in this interim.


.IND file	Component name						Tag	
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
421INV20	Inventory, Version 4.2.1	     4.2.1-INVSRV-0020
421LCF20	Inventory Gateway, Version 4.2.1   4.2.1-INVGW-0020	


Limitations
On solaris-ix86 workstations, the manufacturer is not identified.
