HP-UX 11i December 2004 Release Notes

HP-UX 11i Version 1 Operating Environment Applications
HP-UX 11i v1 Mission Critical Operating Environment (MCOE)
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— A new method for non-root access for Serviceguard commands, both on command
line and with the graphical interface. Non-root access to view or to issue
administration commands is now defined in the new Access Control Policy
parameter in the configuration files. If a node has a cluster configuration file,
Serviceguard will no longer look at the cmclnodelist or .rosts files.
— Clusters and packages can now be configured through Serviceguard’s graphical
user interface. The Serviceguard Manager graphical user interface now replaces
all the functionality of the SAM Cluster Tool, which has been obsoleted and is no
longer available in SAM.
— Another new parameter, Network Failure Detection, gives users two choices
about how a network monitor will declare a LAN card down.
— A new auxiliary product is available that works with Serviceguard version 11.16.
The Serviceguard Extension for Faster Failover can be purchased through
http://software.hp.com. The Release Notes are posted at
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/ha. At the same location, there is a new technical
white paper, “Failover Optimization,” that can tell you how to cut failover time,
with or without the purchased product.
NOTE If you want to use these new features, then the existing ASCII configuration files and
control scripts may need to be edited and must be reapplied to the cluster.
• HP Serviceguard Manager has been updated to version A.04.00 with the following
changes:
— Allows the creation and configuration of clusters and packages
— Supports the new Serviceguard Roles Based Access
— Supports the new Serviceguard networking monitoring feature
— No longer supports IT Operations
— No longer supports installation on the Windows NT platform
• HP Serviceguard Quorum Server has been updated to version A.02.00.01 to support
future Itanium and PA-RISC platforms. No new functionality has been added.
updated for June
2003
MC/ServiceGuard has been updated to version 11.15 with the following changes:
• Support for IPv6, with some restrictions which are listed in the product Release
Notes.
•The cmrunnode and cmruncl commands now do a validation check of networks by
default. ServiceGuard probes the existing network setup to be sure it matches the
information in its configuration files. The check is recommended, but can be skipped
with an option.
• ServiceGuard configuration commands cmcheckconf and cmapplyconf have a new
option that enables these commands to respond faster on systems with large storage
networks, such as a SAN. With the -K option, ServiceGuard will check connectivity
for only the cluster lock volume groups, and will skip all other LVM volume groups.
• The user's manual Managing MC/ServiceGuard (B3936-90065) has been revised
and corrected for this release.