Greetings Red Hat Partners, We are pleased to announce the general availability (GA) of version 2.0 of the Red Hat Certification Hardware Test Suite. The new version of the test suite *is* an official release and should be used for new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x and 7.x hardware certification submissions. New submissions from the older 1.x version of the test suite will be allowed for 90 days from today, at which time all new certification requests must be performed using version 2.x of the test suite.
Highlights of the new version include: * The web interface for the local test server (LTS) has been updated to provide a better user experience * LTS functionality and management of all product testing has been moved into the "redhat-certification" package, which is available exclusively for RHEL 7 systems * A new package called "redhat-certification-backend" is available for RHEL 6 and RHEL 7 and acts as the client for the LTS * Support for certification of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 has been added An updated user guide for the new test suite is being uploaded to the Red Hat Customer Portal and will be available soon. A separate announcement will be sent when it is published. Until the guide is available at the official location, it may be viewed at the following link: http://people.redhat.com/gcase/docs_preview/rhcert-2/ The new Red Hat Certification Hardware Test Suite 2.x packages are available at the following locations. They will be moving to an official Red Hat Customer Portal location in the near future. We will send another announcement when the packages are available in their new Portal location. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Test Suite Packages ---------------------------------------------- redhat-certification redhat-certification-backend redhat-certification-information redhat-certification-hardware python-django python-django-bash-completion dt lmbench stress Download location: http://people.redhat.com/gcase/rhcert-2/rhel7/ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Test Suite Packages ---------------------------------------------- redhat-certification-backend redhat-certification-information redhat-certification-hardware dt lmbench stress Download location: http://people.redhat.com/gcase/rhcert-2/rhel6/ Note: The "redhat-certification" package is no longer used with version 2.x of the test suite on RHEL 6.x. Systems under test (SUT) should be configured to point to local test servers with redhat-certification 2.0 installed on RHEL 7.x. If you are having difficulty downloading the files, please contact your partner manager or engineering account manager for assistance. Known Issues ------------------------------------------------ * An updated full-virt guest configuration file is needed to complete certification of RHEL 7.2 systems. The file will be uploaded to the partners FTP site at the usual location, but until that happens the file is available here: http://people.redhat.com/gcase/rhcert-2/fv-images/hwcert-x86_64.xml.tar.bz2 You will need to manually place this file and the other two virt-related test files on your local test server (LTS) to allow virt guest testing to pass. Please see the section entitled "Using Locally-Hosted Pre-Built Guest Files" in the User Guide for further information. * The test suite files are available from the temporary locations mentioned above. They will be making their way to the official Portal download locations shortly. * The documentation is available from the temporary location mentioned above. It will be making its way to the official Portal documentation location shortly. Red Hat values your ongoing participation in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux development, testing, and certification efforts. Thank you for your continued partnership. If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact your partner manager or engineering account manager. Regards, The Red Hat Hardware Certification Team -- Hwcert-announce-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/hwcert-announce-list
