HP-UX 11i September 2001 Release Notes

General System Administration and Performance Monitoring
Changes to System Administration Manager (SAM) (updated for June 2001)
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Possible Future Changes
Performance improvements are planned for Card OLAR code in the Peripherals
Devices area.
In the future, SAM is planning on obsoleting 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
• The Routine Tasks area
• Backup and Recover - The fbackup and frecover commands will still be available
from the command line.
• Distributed Print Service
• Kernel Configuration - This will be replaced with a new tool
• Uninterrupted Power Supply section under the Peripheral Devices area
• In the Performance Monitors area, the following areas will be removed as SAM
provides no added value above the existing commands (listed in parenthesis):
— Disk and Terminal Activity (iostat)
— Inter-Process Communication Facility Status (ipcs)
— Process with the Highest CPU Usage (top)
— System Activity (sar)
— Virtual Memory Activity (vmstat)
Additional SAM Changes
The Guardian Service Processor was introduced for the N4000 mid-range servers with
the May 1999 Extension Pack and subsequently on all new servers. (See “Service
Processor (GSP or MP)” on page 45 in Chapter 3 for more information.) The new card
has a port for the system console, as well as optional ports that can be used to connect
terminals, modems, and Uninterruptable Power Supplies (UPS). SAM has been modified
to aid in the configuration of these optional ports.
SAM allows you to launch the Partition Manager (parmgr), the new system
administration tool that supports the initial and ongoing configuration of Superdome
systems. See “Partition Manager (parmgr) (new at 11i original release)” on page 33 in
Chapter 2 for details.
In this release, SAM allows selecting workstation kernel parameter sets to tune your
system for CAE/ME or EE applications. See “Workstation Tuned Kernel Parameters” on
page 53 in Chapter 3 for more information.
NOTE Updated for HP-UX 11i June 2001
SAM patch PHCO_23004 for 11i (included in the HWEnable11i patch bundle and
automatically installed) changes the behavior of the PCI card slot LED (Attention
Indicator) to conform with the newly implemented PCI SHPC (Standard Hotplug
Controller) specification.