Read Before Installing or Updating HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006
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Contents Welcome to HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Media Kit Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 What’s New in This Release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 HP-UX 11i v2 Operating Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 Known Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 Web Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Welcome to HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006 HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) June 2006 offers a full range of HP-UX Operating Environments, including systems management and high-availability software products. This DVD booklet provides the following information: • Contents of the HP-UX 11i v2 media kit. • New features and enhancements in this release. See the HP-UX 11i v2 Release Notes for details. • Descriptions of the Operating System and Operating Environments.
Media Kit Contents For new systems, the HP-UX 11i v2 media kit includes the following DVDs and documentation. For the update service, you only receive those components that change from one release to the next. • HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) DVD — Contains the HP-UX Operating System, Operating Environments, networking software, Update-UX, Ignite-UX, standard HP-UX patch bundles, online diagnostic tools, and the FEATURE11i patch bundle. • HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.
• HP-UX 11i v2 Software Pack DVD — Contains optional core enhancements for HP-UX 11i v2, such as Node and Host Name Expansion, Portability Package, and Standard Mode Security Extensions. • Read Before Installing or Updating to HP-UX 11i v2 — (this document) Provides last-minute information for HP-UX 11i v2. Read this booklet before cold-installing or updating HP-UX. • HP-UX 11i v2 Release Notes — Describes new features and functionality changes for HP-UX 11i v2.
What’s New in This Release This section provides a quick overview of what is new, has changed, and has been deprecated or obsoleted in the HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006 release. For detailed product information, see the HP-UX 11i v2 Release Notes on the Instant Information DVD and the HP Technical Documentation Web site: http://docs.hp.com You can find the complete list of applications included in the HP-UX 11i v2 release at the HP Software Releases & Media Web site: http://www.hp.
New EFI Command to Select the Primary Console You can use the new EFI shell command conconfig to select the HP-UX primary console. For more information see the HP-UX 11i v2 Installation and Update Guide and the HP Service Guide appropriate for your server. New CommonIO Bundle The CommonIO bundle contains common files that are used for multiple drivers. This bundle currently contains infrastructure components for SerialSCSI-00.
Support for Serial Attached SCSI The June 2006 release includes support for Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) for use with HP-UX 11i v2. You can find general information about SAS at: http://www.docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html SAS support includes important install and recovery functional differences compared to other I/O devices. See the Ignite-UX Release Notes and the Ignite-UX Administration Guide for more information. These documents are available at the HP Technical Documentation Web site: http://docs.hp.
HP OnlineJFS 3.5 Factory-Ignited on HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006 EOE and MCOE Media If you ordered a factory ignited system with either the HP-UX 11i v2 March 2006 or later Enterprise OE or Mission Critical OE your system will come with the HP OnlineJFS 3.5 product pre-installed. If you want to install the HP OnlineJFS 4.1 product on your system, use the swinstall command to install it from the HPUX 11i v2 OE media. When installing HP OnlineJFS from media you have the choice of selecting either version 3.
Updated Products in HP-UX 11i v2 Table 1 lists products that have changed, and have been deprecated or obsoleted in the HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006 release. For a list of the associated bundle tags, refer to the HP-UX 11i v2 Installation and Update Guide. For detailed information on these products, refer to the HP-UX 11i v2 Release Notes.
Table 1: Updated Products in HP-UX 11i v2 Updated Product Description IEther-00 Includes changes to Checksum Offload. Supports PCI Error Handling. RAID-01 Updated with quality and diagnostic improvements and defect fixes. scsiU320-00 Updated with quality and diagnostic improvements for Ultra320 SCSI solutions. SerialSCSI-00 Updated with quality improvements. HP Instant Capacity Updated to version B.11.23.08.
Table 1: Updated Products in HP-UX 11i v2 Updated Product Description Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i) Added new patches for HP Integrity Virtual Machines (HPVM). HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider (VMProvider) Updated to version A.01.20 with build and MOF changes to work with the latest WBEM Services, a new interface to get only the IDs of the VMs, and additions to get more VxVM information from each VM. HP Integrity VM Support Library (VMGuestLib) Updated to version A.01.
Table 1: Updated Products in HP-UX 11i v2 Updated Product Description HP System Management Homepage Updated to version A.2.2.3 to incorporate defect fixes. HP WBEM Services for HP-UX Updated to version A.02.00.10 to incorporate defect fixes. HP-UX Kernel Configuration Updated to incorporate defect fixes. Ignite-UX The Ignite-UX lli v1 (B.11.
Table 1: Updated Products in HP-UX 11i v2 Updated Product Description System Fault Management (SFM) System Fault Management (SFM) introduces the SFMIndicationProvider on Itanium-based systems only. This new provider substitutes the following EMS Hardware Monitors: • cpe_em • cmc_em • memory_ia64 SFM provides the option of using either these three monitors or the SFMIndicationProvider.
Table 1: Updated Products in HP-UX 11i v2 Updated Product Description Software Distributor Updated to incorporate defect fixes. Update-UX Updated to reflect defect fixes. No new features or functionality. Utilization Provider Updated to a new version number to include defect fixes. EnableVxFS Bundle Now a customer-selectable product in the June 2006 release of HP-UX 11i v2 (formerly, was always-installed). VERITAS File System (HP JFS/HP OnlineJFS) HP OnlineJFS 4.
Table 1: Updated Products in HP-UX 11i v2 Updated Product Description Mozilla Web Browser Updated to version 1.7.12.01.01 to incorporate a packaging change. HP-UX OpenSSL Updated to provide more stringent error checking and general defect fixes. HP-UX Role-based Access Control Updated with a usability enhancement known as “Hierarchical Roles” that allows you to define relationships between roles. Also includes defect fixes. This product is available on the HP-UX 11i v2 Software Pack DVD.
Table 1: Updated Products in HP-UX 11i v2 Updated Product Description HP-UX Java Development Kit and HP-UX Java Runtime Environment for the Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (JDK/JRE) Versions 1.4 and 5.0 (1.5) of the JDK/JRE, Add-ons, and Plugins updated to incorporate defect fixes as well as packaging changes. Java Out-of-Box Updated to version 2.03.05 to incorporate defect fixes. Perl Updated to version 5.8.3 build 809.
HP-UX 11i v2 Operating Environments Operating Environments are tested and integrated application bundles designed to work with the operating system and provide the functionality needed for your system’s purpose. For more information about the contents of the OEs, see the HP-UX 11i v2 Installation and Update Guide, or see the HP-UX 11i v2 Release Notes. Note HP-UX 11i v2 May 2005 was the last release that included the Minimal Technical OE (MTOE). After May 2005, the MTOE is no longer delivered.
The following list details the currently available HP-UX 11i v2 OEs: • HP-UX 11i v2 Foundation OE (FOE) — Designed for the demands of Web servers, content servers, and front-end servers, this OE includes applications such as HP-UX Web Server Suite, Java, and Mozilla Application Suite. This OE is bundled as HPUX11i-OE.
Known Problems This section contains critical, late-breaking information that was not included in the HP-UX 11i v2 Installation and Update Guide. Before cold-installing or updating to HP-UX 11i v2, make sure you read this entire section and Appendix A in the HP-UX 11i v2 Installation and Update Guide. For information and patches for other known problems, go to the HP IT Resource Center Web site: http://itrc.hp.
Cold-Install WBEM Error Messages After you cold-install the HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006 release, you may see the following messages in the swagent.log file: /var/tmp/BAAa00208/catalog/WBEMServices/WBEM-CORE/checkinstall [nm]: /var/opt/wbem/revision-tmp.txt: cannot create /var/tmp/BAAa00208/catalog/WBEMServices/WBEM-CORE/checkinstall [pq]: /var/opt/wbem/revision.txt: cannot create What To Do You can safely ignore these messages.
Installing Fire GL-UX Graphics Cards Unlike graphics patches on HP-UX 11i v1, the kernel graphics patch PHKL_34349 for HP-UX 11i v2 will not automatically configure the gvid graphics driver into the kernel if a Fire GL-UX graphics card is detected. If you have newly installed a Fire GL-UX graphics card, make sure that the gvid graphics driver is configured into your kernel. This only needs to be done once per system.
Web Resources For additional help when cold-installing or updating HP-UX 11i v2 and related products, go to the Web: • HP Software Releases & Media: http://www.hp.com/softwarereleases/ \ releases-media2/index.html • Guides in various languages: http://docs.hp.com • Latest HP-UX 11i v2 guides and white papers: http://docs.hp.com/hpux/os/11iv2 • For a complete listing of all HP publications: http://www.hp.
• HP-UX patches and patch information: http://itrc.hp.com Select maintenance and support (hp products), then select the appropriate patching tools. To receive HP Security Bulletins, under maintenance and support (hp products), select subscribe to security bulletins & patch digests. • HP-UX server information: http://www.hp.com/go/Integrity http://www.hp.com/go/HP9000 • HP-UX workstation information: http://www.hp.com/workstations • HP-UX Software Transition Kit: http://devresource.hp.
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