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 June 2004 Release?
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• HP Serviceguard Quorum Server updated to version A.02.00.01 to support future
platforms. (See “HP Serviceguard” on page 145.)
• HP-UX Apache-based Web Server updated to version A.2.0.49 as a feature release
which contains support for Microsoft FrontPage 2002, more pHP extensions, and
numerous version upgrades. (See “HP-UX Apache-based Web Server” on page 127.)
• HP-UX HIDS v1.0 deprecated and planned for future obsolescence. (See “HP-UX
Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS)” on page 165.)
• HP-UX IPFilter updated to version A.03.05.09 with support for multi-level groups
and for IP address ranges in IPFilter rules, as well as enhancements to DCA and to
logging, memory allocation, and commands. (See “HP-UX IPFilter” on page 166.)
• HP-UX Tomcat-based Servlet Engine updated to version A.4.1.29.02 with Tomcat
version upgraded to 4.1.29.02; mod_jk and related configuration files shipped with
HP-UX Apache-based Web Server; and defect fix to the Tomcat Admin application.
(See “HP-UX Tomcat-based Servlet Engine” on page 128.)
• HP-UX Webmin-based Admin updated to version A.1.070.00 as a full-feature release
that contains numerous enhancements, including support for 32-bit Apache (if
installed); backup, version management (RCS); retrieval of Apache configuration
files; and others. (See “HP-UX Webmin-based Admin” on page 128.)
• HP-UX Workload Manager updated to version A.02.02 with a new GUI that allows
local and remote management of WLM systems; automatic resizing of node
partitions (nPars) that use iCOD software; support for more WLM configuration
options by the Configuration Wizard; and other changes. (See “HP-UX Workload
Manager” on page 149.)
• HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits updated to version A.01.05 with utilities now
using /opt/perl/bin/perl, as well as support for Apache 2.
x
and enhancements to
utilitydc. (See “HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits” on page 150.)
• HP-UX XML Web Server Tools updated to version A.2.00 as primarily a version
upgrade release, with upgrades to Xerces-J, Xalan-J, Cocoon, and FOP. (See “HP-UX
XML Web Server Tools” on page 129.)
• Ignite-UX updated to version B.5.4.
x
with several changes, including updates to the
make_[tape/net]_recovery tools, update to the save_config command, and
enhancements to the GUI. (See “Ignite-UX (IUX)” on page 167.)
• New Product: Java for HP-UX Add-on Standard C++ Runtime Libraries for the
SDK and for the RTE now default-installed in all OEs. (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 2.03.00 to incorporate defect fixes. (See “Java
Out-of-Box (JAVAOOB)” on page 169.)
• Mozilla Application Suite updated to version 1.4.00.01 with full Japanese
localization as well as other defect fixes and enhancements. (See “Mozilla
Application Suite” on page 131.)
• New Product: OpenSSL added. OpenSSL is an open source cryptography toolkit
that implements the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2 and v3) and Transport Layer
Security (TLS v1) network protocols and related required cryptography standards.
(See “OpenSSL” on page 132.)