•Enhanced upgrade process reduces user interaction, detects and reports differences between the Cisco-supplied configuration files and prior ones modified by the user, automated backup and other enhancements

•The provisioning log lbmpProvisioned.log now contains the name of the Provisioning Role or Provisioning Role Template

•Enhanced setup.pl for better user experience

•Streamlined mechanism to start, stop, restart and check all services needed by the Provisioner PXE Server: linmin-services.sh replacing lbmp-checkstatus.sh

•Built-in workarounds for Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS bugs:

oTime zone parameters changed from GMT+/- to “Continent/City” format to work around the omission of GMT in ISO media (for RHEL/CentOS 5.3 only)

oKernel parameters now forced provision to eth0 (can be modified) to avoid imgstage2 error (for all kickstart-based Linux distributions)