HP-UX 11i December 2004 Release Notes
Table Of Contents
- HP-UX 11i December 2004 Release Notes
- 1 Finding HP-UX 11i v1 Documentation
- 2 What’s New at a Glance
- What’s in This Chapter?
- What’s New in the December 2004 Release?
- What’s New in the June 2004 Release?
- What’s New in the December 2003 Release?
- What’s New in the September 2003 Release?
- What’s New in the June 2003 Release?
- What’s New in the March 2003 Release?
- What’s New in the December 2002 Release?
- What’s New in the September 2002 Release?
- What’s New in the June 2002 Release?
- What’s New in the March 2002 Release?
- What’s New in the December 2001 Release?
- What’s New in the September 2001 Release?
- What’s New in the June 2001 Release?
- What’s New in the Original 11i v1 Release?
- 3 HP-UX 11i Version 1 Release Overview
- 4 nPartition (Hard Partition) Systems
- 5 Workstation/Server Specific Information
- What’s in This Chapter?
- Supported Systems
- Hardware Enablement
- HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition
- HP-UX V-Class Changes
- SCSI Drivers scsi3 and c720
- SCSI Driver c8xx
- Service Processor (GSP or MP)
- N4000 and rp7400 Server Functionality
- ttytype Support for the N4000 and rp7400 Console
- New stty Options
- Workstations
- 6 HP-UX 11i Version 1 Operating Environment Applications
- What’s in This Chapter?
- The HP-UX 11i Version 1 Operating Environments
- HP-UX 11i v1 Foundation Operating Environment
- Always-Installed Networking and Mass Storage Drivers
- Base VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM)
- Codeword iCOD
- Event Monitoring Service (EMS)
- GTK+ Libraries
- HP CIFS Client and HP CIFS Server
- HP WBEM Services for HP-UX
- HP-UX Software Development Kit and Runtime Environment for the Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) Pla...
- HP-UX Support Tools (Diagnostics): STM, ODE, & EMS Hardware Monitors
- HP-UX Web Server Suite
- HP-UX Apache-based Web Server
- HP-UX Webmin-based Admin
- HP-UX Tomcat-based Servlet Engine
- HP-UX XML Web Server Tools
- Java for HP-UX Add-On Standard C++ Runtime Libraries for the SDK and the RTE
- Judy Libraries
- Mozilla Application Suite
- MySQL
- OpenSSL
- Partition Manager
- Perl Programming Language
- Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) Kerberos
- Plug-In for the Java 2 Platform for Mozilla
- Servicecontrol Manager (SCM)
- Software Distributor
- Update-UX
- HP-UX 11i v1 Enterprise Operating Environment (EOE)
- HP-UX 11i v1 Mission Critical Operating Environment (MCOE)
- HP-UX 11i v1 Minimal Technical Operating Environment (MTOE)
- HP-UX 11i v1 Technical Computing Operating Environment (TCOE)
- Selectable Applications
- 7 Networking and Mass Storage Drivers
- 8 Installation
- What’s in This Chapter?
- Cold Install Changed
- Update-UX
- Software Distributor
- Multiple Target Management Capabilities Enabled
- POSIX Enhancements and Exceptions
- Change in swlist Hides Superseded Patches by Default
- 64-bit Capability Determined from System, Not /etc/.supported_bits
- CD Searched For Only When Requested
- GUI Streamlined
- Products Rather than Bundles Shown After Auto-Selection
- Software Groups Added to GUI
- Layout Version No Longer Converted Automatically
- Messages Improved or Eliminated
- Output of swlist Changed
- swpackage Produces Note Vs. Warning
- Newest Bundle Selected by Default
- control_utils File Improved
- New Environment Variable, SW_COMPATIBLE, Created
- SD-UX Changes to Patch Installation
- Documentation
- set_parms Enhanced
- 9 General System Administration and Performance Monitoring
- What’s in This Chapter?
- EnhancedMMAP Available on Software Pack
- MtIOscan11i Available on Software Pack
- NEWFUSER11i Available on Software Pack
- HP-UX Buffer Cache Tunable Parameters Deprecated
- HP-UX Newadb Available on Software Pack
- Compressed Dump Available on Software Pack
- Interrupt Migration Available on Software Pack
- Processor Sets Available on Software Pack
- New Option for top
- Changes to System Administration Manager (SAM)
- syslog File Logging Changes for su and login
- HP Process Resource Manager (PRM)
- HP Distributed Print Service Deprecated
- Diagnostics: EMS Hardware Monitors
- Improved ioscan Description Field for PCI Devices
- On Demand Solutions
- 10 Process, Threads, Memory, and Kernel Parameters
- What’s in This Chapter?
- HP-UX Gang Scheduling
- Kernel Threads vs. CMA Threads
- Large Private Data Space
- Memory Windows
- HP-UX SCA Process and Memory Management
- Dynamic Tunables
- Asynchronous Disk Pseudo Driver (async) Compatibility
- System-V InterProcess Communications (IPC)
- SCSI Queue Depth Management
- Changes to mpctl() System Call
- 11 Disk and File Management
- What’s in This Chapter?
- Portable File System (PFS) Obsoleted
- Enhanced AutoFS Available on Software Pack
- DeviceIDs Available on Software Pack
- VERITAS VxFS 3.5 Available on Software Pack
- Additional Support for Striping and Mirroring
- New Whitepaper on File and File System Sizes
- New Version of Journaled File System (JFS)
- Network File System Support on TCP/IP
- Other NFS Changes
- Mounting and Unmounting NFS File Systems Automatically Using AutoFS
- HP Fibrechannel High Availability Disk and Closure
- Fibre Channel Mass Storage Diagnostic Message and Kernel Tunable
- 12 Internet and Networking Services
- 13 Security
- What’s in This Chapter?
- HP-UX Shadow Passwords
- HP-UX Strong Random Number Generator Available on Software Pack
- Boot Authenticator for Standard Mode of HP-UX Available on Software Pack
- HP-UX Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS)
- Generic Security Services for Developing Secure Applications
- Execute Protected Stacks
- Auditing Commands/System to be Updated
- Configurable Security Features
- Password History Feature on Trusted Systems
- Kerberos Client Software
- HP-UX Kerberos Server Version 2.0
- 14 Compatibility
- 15 Programming
- What’s in This Chapter?
- HP-UX Shared Memory Extensions Available on Software Pack
- HP-UX Software Transition Kit (STK)
- Libraries
- Miscellaneous
- The pstat_getfile() Interface Deprecated
- Transition Links Deprecated
- Perl Programming Language
- Linker and Object File Tools (ld, crt0.o, dld.sl, libdld.sl, chatr, and odump)
- Changes to the linker/dld Interface
- Instrumented Code Using PBO or +O4 Optimization
- HP DCE/9000
- Extensions to pstat()
- Changes to sendfile
- Machine Identifier Changes to confstr
- 16 Internationalization
- What’s in This Chapter?
- Deprecated Functionality
- Unicode Character Set
- Corrected Character Mappings to iconv(1) and iconv(3C)
- EURO (ISO 8859-15 Locales)
- Euro - ISO 10646/Unicode Support
- Asian System Environment (ASE)
- Enhanced Print Capabilities in the Asian System Environment
- Multibyte Support Extension and Unix98 Support
- 17 Licensing Products
What’s New at a Glance
What’s New in the December 2004 Release?
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• HP Process Resource Manager updated to version C.02.03.03 with changes in usage
of /var/tmp/, and changes to the products available in the bundles. (See “HP
Process Resource Manager (PRM)” on page 140.)
• HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit (formerly MC/ServiceGuard NFS Toolkit) updated to
version A.11.11.04 with improvement to the failover performance for rpcbind
failures. In addition, version A.11.11.04 specifies that the length of the
NFS_FLM_SCRIPT
variable is limited to 13 characters in the nfs.mon script. (See “HP
Serviceguard NFS Toolkit” on page 148.)
• HP WBEM Services for HP-UX updated with defect fixes as well as support for CIM
Process Indications as defined by the DMTF WBEM Specification. A version of the
OpenSSL software is no longer packaged with the product software. (See “HP WBEM
Services for HP-UX” on page 122.)
• HP-UX Apache-based Web Server updated to version 2.0.52.00 as primarily a
security and bug fix release with Apache and mod_perl upgraded. (See “HP-UX
Apache-based Web Server” on page 127.)
• HP-UX IPFilter updated to version A.03.05.10.04 to incorporate defect fixes. (See
“HP-UX IPFilter” on page 166.)
• HP-UX Software Development Kit and Runtime Environment for the Java 2
Platform updated to version 1.4.2.04 to provide more recent Java technology. (See
“HP-UX Software Development Kit and Runtime Environment for the Java 2
Standard Edition (J2SE) Platform” on page 123.)
• HP-UX Tomcat-based Servlet Engine updated to version A.4.1.29.04 with upgrades
to Tomcat and Commons-DBCP. (See “HP-UX Tomcat-based Servlet Engine” on
page 128.)
• HP-UX Webmin-based Admin updated to version 1.070.02 to incorporate defect fixes.
(See “HP-UX Webmin-based Admin” on page 128.)
• HP-UX Workload Manager updated to version A.02.03.03 with new options for
wlmaudit and wlmgui. (See “HP-UX Workload Manager” on page 149.)
• HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits updated to version A.01.07.03 with
modifications to PPUTK’s utilitydc and updated example configurations. (See
“HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits” on page 150.)
• Ignite-UX updated to version C.6.1.
x
with enhancements to the make_net_recovery
and make_tape_recovery commands. The impi and impi_psm drivers added to the
11i v1 and 11i v2 WINSTALL installation kernels. (See “Ignite-UX (IUX)” on
page 167.)
• Java for HP-UX Add-on Standard C++ Runtime Libraries for the SDK and for the
RTE updated to version 1.4.2.04 to incorporate defect fixes. (See “Java for HP-UX
Add-On Standard C++ Runtime Libraries for the SDK and the RTE” on page 130.)
• Java Out-of-Box updated to version 2.03.01 to provide enhancements and defect
fixes. (See “Java Out-of-Box (JAVAOOB)” on page 169.)
• Mozilla Application Suite updated to version 1.6.0.01 and contains full Japanese
localization as well as other defect fixes, security fixes, and enhancements. (See
“Mozilla Application Suite” on page 131.)
• OpenSSL updated to version A.00.09.07-d to eliminate extra messages at
installation time. (See “OpenSSL” on page 132.)