HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2005 Release Notes
Table Of Contents
- HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2005 Release Notes
- Legal Notices
- Publication History
- Typographic Conventions
- 1 Overview of the Release Notes
- 2 Introduction to HP-UX 11i Version 2
- 3 What is New at a Glance
- 4 Server-Specific Information
- What is in This Chapter?
- Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle
- HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition
- Networking and Mass Storage Drivers
- Always-Installed Networking Drivers
- Selectable Networking Drivers
- Always-Installed Mass Storage Drivers
- Selectable Mass Storage Drivers
- Supported Systems
- Finding Firmware Information
- 5 General System Administration
- What is in This Chapter?
- Distributed Systems Administration Utilities
- Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit Version
- Event Monitoring Services
- Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (Feature11i)
- GlancePlus Pak
- High Availability Monitors
- HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider
- HP Integrity VM Support Library
- HP Partitioning
- HP Serviceguard
- HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit
- HP System Management Homepage
- HP Systems Insight Manager
- HP WBEM Services for HP-UX
- HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups
- HP-UX Kernel Configuration
- HP-UX Peripheral Device Tool
- HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider
- HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider for Ethernet Interfaces
- HP-UX WBEM LVM Provider
- HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider
- Ignite-UX
- Obsolescence Bundle
- Online Diagnostics
- Quality Pack Patch Bundle
- Software Distributor
- Software Package Builder
- Update-UX
- Utilization Provider
- 6 Disk and File Management
- 7 Internet and Networking
- 8 Security
- 9 Commands and System Calls
- 10 Libraries and Programming
- 11 Internationalization
- 12 Other Functionality

What is New at a Glance
What is New in the December 2005 Release?
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• HP Serviceguard: Updated to version A.11.17 with support for HP-UX 11i Security
Containment, HP Fabric Clustering System for Infiniband, and Distributed Systems
Administration Utilities. Includes enhanced security, a new command option, and a
change in memory allocation, as well as other changes. (See “HP Serviceguard” on
page 114.)
• HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit: Updated to version A.11.23.04 to incorporate fixes for
two defects. (See “HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit” on page 116.)
• HP System Management Homepage (SysMgmtWeb): Updated to version 2.2.1.x with
integration of SAM Web-based applications; support for legacy SAM X Launch;
WBEM-based property pages for OS and software information. (See “HP System
Management Homepage” on page 117.)
• HP Systems Insight Manager: Updated to version 5.0 with numerous enhancements,
including the ability to view more information and perform more tasks; new CLI
commands; a First Time Wizard; support for Oracle databases; and other
enhancements. (See “HP Systems Insight Manager” on page 118.)
• HP WBEM Services for HP-UX: Updated to version A.02.00.08 to incorporate defect
fixes. (See “HP WBEM Services for HP-UX” on page 122.)
• New Product: HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups: Web-based tool (ugweb)
allows the user to manage the local user accounts, NIS user accounts and group
accounts. (See “HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups” on page 123.)
• HP-UX Kernel Configuration: Now a plug-in tool in the HP System Management
Homepage. TUI changed from previous ObAM-based TUI. (See “HP-UX Kernel
Configuration” on page 124.)
• HP-UX Peripheral Device Tool: Updated to version B11.23.05. The waconf (1M)
command and the WEB-ADM fileset now obsolete and replaced by the HP System
Management Homepage, which now integrates the HP-UX Peripheral Device Tool
integrated. (See “HP-UX Peripheral Device Tool” on page 126.)
• New Product: HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider: Used by client applications
to determine information about Fibre Channel HBAs and their properties. (See
“HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider” on page 127.)
• New Product: HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider for Ethernet Interfaces: Used by client
applications to determine 100bt and Gigabit links available on the system and collect
information about them. (See “HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider for Ethernet Interfaces”
on page 128.)
• New Product: HP-UX WBEM LVM Provider: Used by client applications to
determine information about the LVM via HP WBEM Services for HP-UX. (See
“HP-UX WBEM LVM Provider” on page 129.)
• New Product: HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider: Used by client applications to
determine information about SCSI HBAs present on the system. (See “HP-UX
WBEM SCSI Provider” on page 130.)
• Ignite-UX: Updated to version C.6.5.x with updated documentation, defect fixes,
enhancements, and support for VxVM 4.1. No longer supports HP-UX 11i v1.6
(B.11.22). For December 2005, available only the AR DVD; it is not included in the
December 2005 Operating Environments. (See “Ignite-UX” on page 131.)
• Obsolescence Bundle: Upon update, now removes MySQL in addition to other
obsolete products. (See “Obsolescence Bundle” on page 132.)