HP-UX 11i September 2001 Release Notes

HP-UX 11i Operating Environment Applications

HP-UX 11i Operating Environment (new at 11i original release)

Chapter 4

The rest of this section describes the major differences between Support Tools on HP-UX

11i and Support Tools on previous releases (HP-UX 10.20 and 11.0).

Impact

The HP-UX Support Tools have been modiﬁed to support new products, such as

Superdome systems.

With HP-UX 11i, the Support Tools are automatically installed with the HP-UX 11i

Operating Environment CD. It is no longer necessary to load the Support Tools from the

Support Plus Media. (The Support Plus Media, however, still contains the Support Tools,

and will continue to be distributed. Ofﬂine tools are run from the Support Plus CD and

cannot be run from the HP-UX 11i Operating Environment CD.)

As of HP-UX 11i, Predictive Support is no longer distributed with the Support Tools.

Disk space required by the HP-UX 11i Support Tools is comparable to the disk space

required for previous releases (in the range of 60-70MB).

Compatibility

There are minor changes in monconfig, the user interface for conﬁguring EMS

Hardware Monitors. These changes relate to the client conﬁguration ﬁles which have

been added to support the multiple-view (Predictive-enabled) feature.

If you have scripts which invoke monconfig, they may have to be modiﬁed.

For more information on these changes, refer to “Adding a Monitoring Request” in

Chapter 2 of the EMS Hardware Monitors User’s Guide (June 2000 or later edition)

available by searching on the manual title at:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/diag/

Alternately, you can just run monconfig on HP-UX 11i to see the revised dialog.

Documentation

For detailed descriptions of the individual changes of the Support Tools, search for

DIAGNOSTICS.readme, the STM Release Notes, and the Release Notes for EMS

Hardware Monitors. These publications are available on the web at:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/diag/

The docs.hp.com web site also has tutorials, FAQs, Release Notes, and manuals

documenting the Support Tools.

Some documentation is also available through other means, such as through the Support

Plus CD. However, the web pages provide the latest information.

For changes since the initial release of HP-UX 11i, see the March 2001 and June 2001

documents at the following URLs:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/diag/ems/ems_rel.htm

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/diag/stm/stm_rel.htm