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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• Online Diagnostics: Updated to include HPVM enablement, as well as integration of
slview with HP System Management Homepage. (See “Online Diagnostics” on
page 133.)
• Quality Pack Patch Bundle: Included in this release as a superset of the May 2005
HP-UX 11i v2 Quality Pack. (See “Quality Pack Patch Bundle” on page 135.)
• Software Distributor: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. (See “Software
Distributor” on page 136.)
• SysMgmtBASE bundle: First added to the HP-UX 11i v2 OEs in May 2005, provides
the TUI framework for HP-UX Security Configuration tool and HP-UX Kernel
Configuration. Updated in December 2005 to incorporate defect fixes. (
• Software Package Builder: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. (See “Software
Package Builder” on page 137.)
• Update-UX: Updated to version B.11.23.0512.033. No longer supports update from
HP-UX 11i v1.6 (B.11.22) to HP-UX 11iv2 December 2005 or later releases. (See
“Update-UX” on page 138.)
• New Product: Utilization Provider: Lightweight daemon (utild) records
system-utilization data on a 5-minute interval. (See “Utilization Provider” on
page 139.)
Chapter 6: “Disk and File Management” (see page 141)
• New Product: Disks and File Systems (fsweb): Provides a GUI to HP-UX system
administration tasks. (See “Disks and File Systems” on page 142.)
• New Bundle: EnableVxFS: Provides libraries and commands for VXFS. (For
information about VXFS, see “VERITAS File System (Base-VXFS and HP
OnlineJFS)” on page 147.)
• HP CIFS Client: Updated to version A.02.01 with a substantially revised and
improved code base. (See “HP CIFS Client” on page 143.)
• HP CIFS Server: Updated to 3.0c (version A.02.01.02), which is based on Samba
3.0.7 and provides minor enhancements and defect fixes, as well as the new features
provided in HP CIFS Server 3.0a (version A.02.01). (See “HP CIFS Server” on
page 145.)
• New Product: VERITAS File System (HP JFS/HP OnlineJFS): Version 4.1 now
available with support for large file systems and large files, as well as other features.
(See “VERITAS File System (Base-VXFS and HP OnlineJFS)” on page 147.)
• New Product: VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM): Version 4.1 now available with
enhancements including VERITAS Intelligent Storage Provisioning Service,
Cross-Platform Data Sharing, and Storage Expert, as well as many other features.
(See “VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM)” on page 149.)
Chapter 7: “Internet and Networking” (see page 153)
• HP-UX Web Server Suite (see page 154):
— HP-UX Apache-based Web Server: Updated to version 2.0.54.03 as primarily a
bug fix release. (See “HP-UX Apache-based Web Server” on page 155.)