HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2005 Release Notes

What is New at a Glance
What is New in the December 2005 Release?
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Chapter 5: “General System Administration” (see page 95)
• New Product: Distributed Systems Administration Utilities: Improves
manageability of distributed systems and Serviceguard clusters. (See “Distributed
Systems Administration Utilities” on page 97.)
• Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit: Updated to version B.03.00 with defect fixes and
Support for Cluster File System (CFS) in a Serviceguard A.11.l7 environment. (See
“Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit Version” on page 100.)
• Event Monitoring Services: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. Will be deprecated
post HP-UX 11i v3. (See “Event Monitoring Services” on page 101.)
• Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i): Provides new patches required for
vPars, VERITAS products, Infiniband, and Serial SCSI functionality. (See “Feature
Enablement Patch Bundle (Feature11i)” on page 102.)
• GlancePlus Pak: Updated to version C.04.50 with elimination of the dependency of
ttd to have rpcbind or portmap running: support for both HTTP and HTTPS-based
single port communication; replacement of perfalarm by DCE-based alarm
management daemon, alarmgen; new metrics and other enhancements. (See
“GlancePlus Pak” on page 103.)
• High Availability Monitors: Updated to support the update of Event Monitoring
Service (EMS). (See “High Availability Monitors” on page 104.)
• New Product: HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider: Allows HP Systems Insight
Manager (SIM) to display information about HP systems that support HP Integrity
Virtual Machines. Not invoked directly by the user. (See “HP Integrity Virtual
Machines Provider” on page 105.)
• New Product: HP Integrity VM Support Library: Subset of the HP Integrity
Virtual Machines API Library used by HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider. (See
“HP Integrity VM Support Library” on page 106.)
• HP Partitioning (see page 107)
— HP Global Workload Manager: Central Management Server (CMS), one of the
gWLM components that was delivered on the AR media, has been removed from
the media. (See “HP Global Workload Manager” on page 107.)
— HP-UX Workload Manager: Updated to version A.03.00.01 with cleaner
installations and the ability to manage a complex with mixed architectures. (See
“HP-UX Workload Manager” on page 109.)
— nPartition Provider: Updated to version B.23.01.05.01 to add support for new
cell-based HP servers. (See “nPartition Provider” on page 110.)
— Partition Manager v2.0: Updated to version B.23.02.01.02 to add support for new
cell-based HP servers, improvements under HP SIM and HP SMH, and defect
fixes. (See “Partition Manager” on page 111.)
— New Product: vPar Provider: Used by HP WBEM Services for HP-UX to extract
information about virtual partitions on the system. (See “vPar Provider” on
page 113.)