HP-UX 11i Release Notes (December 2000)

General System Administration and Performance Monitoring
Changes to System Administration Manager (SAM) (new)
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Changes to System Administration Manager
(SAM) (new)
The /usr/sbin/sam command starts a menu-driven System
Administration Manager (SAM) program that makes it easy to perform
system administration tasks with only limited, specialized knowledge of
the HP-UX operating system.
SAM has been enhanced to support new devices and features in the
following areas within the SAM interface: Disks and File Systems,
Kernel Configuration, Network File Systems and Interface Cards,
Peripheral Devices, Printers and Plotters, and Terminals and Modems.
HP-UX and SAM discontinued support of NFS Diskless as of HP-UX
11.0.
Disks and File Systems Area
• Added support for the HP SureStore Disk Array FC60. This allows
you to manage larger volumes of mass storage. This support was also
added in a patch to 10.20 and 11.0.
• Added support for the HP SureStore Disk Array XP256. This allows
you to manage larger volumes of mass storage (up to 11 Terabytes).
This support was also added in a patch to 10.20 and 11.0.
• Added recognition of disks being used by HP VERITAS Volume
Manager (VxVM) and their associated Disk Groups and Volumes.
This allows launching of the HP VERITAS Manager Storage
Administrator (vmsa) tool from within the SAM Disks and File
Systems area.
Kernel Configuration
• Added support for dynamic tunables. These changes allow the user to
tune dynamic tunables using SAM and have the values take effect
immediately. The user will see differences in modifying tunable
parameters and in applying tuned parameter sets. When modifying a
tunable, the value/formula selected by the user will take effect
immediately if the tunable is dynamic. In applying tuned sets, the
entire tuned set will take effect immediately if every tunable in the
set is dynamic. Otherwise, the tuned set won't take effect until the