HP-UX 11i December 2002 Release Notes

HP-UX 11i Version 1.0 Operating Environment Applications
HP-UX 11i Operating Environment
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• The following new hardware is now supported:
— 10/100 BT PCI Single Port LAN Card
— A8068A: HLDS GDR-8161B ATAPI CD-RW Drive
— A7853A: LITE-ON LTR-48126S ATAPI CD-RW Drive
— A8070A: TEAC DW224E-B ATAPI DVD-ROM/CD-RW Combo (slim)
• SMART support has been added for new and legacy HDD drives.
• The existing Firmware Update tool has been enhanced.
updated for
December 2001
With the December 2001 release, STM has been updated to version A.29.00.
The rest of this section describes the major differences between Support Tools on HP-UX
11i and Support Tools on previous releases (HP-UX 10.20 and 11.0).
Impact
The HP-UX Support Tools have been modified to support new products, such as
Superdome systems.
With HP-UX 11i, the Support Tools are automatically installed with the HP-UX 11i
Operating Environment CD. It is no longer necessary to load the Support Tools from the
Support Plus media. (The Support Plus media, however, still contains the Support Tools,
and will continue to be distributed. Offline tools are run from the Support Plus CD and
cannot be run from the HP-UX 11i Operating Environment CD.)
NOTE As of HP-UX 11i, Predictive Support is no longer distributed with the Support Tools.
Disk space required by the HP-UX 11i Support Tools is comparable to the disk space
required for previous releases (in the range of 60-70MB).
Compatibility
There are minor changes in monconfig, the user interface for configuring EMS
Hardware Monitors. These changes relate to the client configuration files which have
been added to support the multiple-view (Predictive-enabled) feature.
If you have scripts which invoke monconfig, they may have to be modified.
For more information on these changes, refer to “Adding a Monitoring Request” in
Chapter 2 of the EMS Hardware Monitors User’s Guide (June 2000 or later edition)
available by searching on the manual title at:
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/diag/
Alternately, you can just run monconfig on HP-UX 11i to see the revised dialog.
Documentation
The http://docs.hp.com/hpux/diag/ web site also has tutorials, FAQs, Release Notes,
and manuals documenting the Support Tools. Although some documentation is also
available through other means, such as through the Support Plus CD, the web pages
provide the latest information.