HP-UX 11i December 2002 Release Notes

General System Administration and Performance Monitoring
Changes to System Administration Manager (SAM)
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Printers and Plotters
• Added support for the Super I/O parallel interface. This allows SAM to recognize this
parallel interface and configure a printer for it.
• Updated the software products supported by SAM that allow the user to configure a
network printer that has a JetDirect interface card.
• Removed obsolete JetDirect software (/usr/lib/admin/hpnpcfg) and added support
for the new HP JetDirect Printer Installer (/opt/hpnpl/admin/hppi) software. You
can now use SAM to configure a network printer using the new HP JetDirect Printer
Installer. SAM still supports the HP JetAdmin Software
(/opt/hpnp/admin/jetadmin).
Terminal and Modems
• Added support for PCI multiplexer cards.
• Added support for modems with hardware flow control.
Documentation Change
• The sam (1M) manpage and online help have been updated.
Possible Future Changes
Performance improvements are planned for Card OLAR code in the Peripherals
Devices area.
In the future, SAM is planning to obsolete the following:
• Instruments section under the Peripheral Devices area - HP-IB instruments will
no longer be supported.
• Run SAM on Remote Systems area - The ServiceControl Manager product will be
handling multi-system management.
• The Process Management area
• The Routine Tasks area
• Backup and Recover - The fbackup and frecover commands will still be available
from the command line.
• Distributed Print Service
• Kernel Configuration - This will be replaced with a new tool
• Uninterrupted Power Supply section under the Peripheral Devices area
• In the Performance Monitors area, the following areas will be removed as SAM
provides no added value above the existing commands (listed in parenthesis):
— Disk and Terminal Activity (iostat)
— Inter-Process Communication Facility Status (ipcs)
— Process with the Highest CPU Usage (top)
— System Activity (sar)
— Virtual Memory Activity (vmstat)