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 September 2004 Release?
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— nPartition Provider B.01.03.00.x: Now supported on both PA-RISC and
Itanium-based systems. Now supports WBEM 2.0.
— Partition Manager 2.0: Supported on both PA-RISC and Itanium-based
systems. Now interacts with nPartition Provider using WBEM 2.0.
• HP Serviceguard A.11.16: Updated with new functionality, defect repairs, and
support for future new hardware configurations.
• HP ServiceGuard Manager A.04.00: Allows administrators to create/configure
clusters and packages, as well as monitor and manage clusters.
• HP Serviceguard Quorum Server: Supported on both PA-RISC and Itanium-based
systems.
• HP-UX 11i v2 Required Patch Bundle (BUNDLE11i): Delivered with this release.
Consists of patches for HP-UX 11i v2 that are required to install and update the
operating system (OS).
• HP-UX Kernel Configuration tool: TUI changed from earlier version. The
/stand/system/ file enhanced.
• The Peripheral Device Tool (pdweb) B11.23.02: TUI introduced.
• Ignite-UX, version B.6.0.x: Includes ability to install and recover 11.0, B.11.11,
B.11.22, B.11.23 PA-RISC, and B.11.23 Itanium-based clients from a single
Ignite-UX server. Also includes booting of both PA-RISC and Itanium-based,
known as dual boot, from a single media source; and installing one unified
PA-RISC/Itanium-based core HP-UX operating system bundle.
• Improved Database Startup and Shutdown Times: Database startup and shutdown
times have been drastically reduced.
• MySQL: Updated with tightened security. Product has been deprecated.
• Obsolescence Product: New product, used in an update when obsolete software on
the system needs to be removed.
• OnlineDiag: Includes various bug fixes and enhancements. Support added for new
devices.
• Quality Pack Patch Bundle: All patches that were in the March 2004 HP-UX 11i v2
Quality Pack will be superseded by dual-architecture patches, which will be placed
in BUNDLE11i.
• SAM-NNC: Added support for VLAN, IPoIB, and large send functionality, plus defect
fixes.
• Servicecontrol Manager: Contains only minor updates. All functionality remains the
same. Product has been deprecated.
• Software Distributor: Updated to a new version to support this new release of
HP-UX 11i v2.
• Software Package Builder A.02.00: Updated to incorporate defect fixes, as well as
support new features, including the ability to edit multiple PSFs at the same time.
• System Administration Manager (SAM): Updated TUIs in the kernel configuration
functional area and the Cards and Devices subarea. Will support shadow mode only
for password aging.
• System V Shared Memory: Maximum for the shmmni tunable parameter increased.