HP-UX 11i June 2004 Release Notes

General System Administration and Performance Monitoring
Changes to System Administration Manager (SAM)
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•In the Tape Devices and Backup and Recovery areas, added support for the
following new tape drives:
— HP C7145/C7146 Autochangers
— HP Surestore SDKT 220 tape drive
• Added device support for PCI multiplexer in Terminals and Modems area.
• Added device support for HP SureStore Disk Array FC60 and the HP SureStore Disk
Array XP256 (as described in the section “Disks and File Systems Area” on
page 203).
System Properties
new for
June 2001
•In the System Properties area, SAM recognizes new processors, if available on the
system, and displays information.
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