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 Initial (October 2003) HP-UX 11i v2 Release?
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• Instant Capacity on Demand (iCOD) 6.0: Now always-installed and supported on HP
Integrity Superdome, HP Integrity rx7620 and rx8620.
• Pay Per Use 6.0: Available as a selectable product. Supports HP Integrity
Superdome, HP Integrity rx7620 and rx8620.
• Technical System Configuration (TechSysConf): TC-OpenSource tools removed.
Remaining TC-SysSetup alters kernel configurable parameters, as well as selected
system configuration files, for improved system performance.
Initial Release Notes, Chapter 4: “General System Administration”
• Compressed Dump: New feature. Speeds up memory dumps.
•Diagnostics:
— Offline Diagnostic Environment: Supports new hardware platforms, including
HP Integrity Superdome, HP Integrity rx2600, rx4640, rx5670, rx8620, rx7620,
zx2000.
— Online Diagnostics (EMS Hardware Monitors and Support Tools Manager):
Modified to support current systems releasing on HP-UX 11i v2. I/O tools and
monitors modified to support new cards and peripherals.
• Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit version B.01.08: Supports the Oracle 9i database
in MC/ServiceGuard clusters.
• Event Monitoring Service A.04.00: Framework and GUI available as 32-bit native
applications on Itanium-based platforms. HA Monitors available as 32-bit native
binaries on Itanium-based platforms. New command line utility, EMS CLI,
available to configure and manage persistent monitoring requests for EMS monitors.
• File Systems Tunable Parameters: HP-UX File Systems now has 13 dynamic tunable
parameters available in HP-UX 11i v2. In addition, the MAXSYMLINKS literal
traditionally included in the <sys/param.h> header is being deprecated in HP-UX
11i v2 and should not be used by applications. MAXSYMLINKS was defined as the
maximum number of symbolic links that may be expanded in a path name. This
limit is now a tunable parameter: fs_symlinks.
• GlancePlus Pak C.03.71.23: Incorporates defect repairs and enhancements,
including enhancements to OVPA and GlancePlus.
• HP Caliper 3.0: Incorporates enhancements, including full multi-process support,
ability to attach to a running process, new report and info modes, and usability
improvements.
• HP Partitioning:
— HP Process Resource Manager version C.02.01.01: Now supports VxVM. Various
PRM utilities have wide-column option for better display of group names.
— HP-UX nPartition Configuration Commands: Management scope of commands
extended to remote partitions and complexes. Additional enhancements added.
— HP-UX Processor Sets: The psrset command enhanced to display Locality
Domain information. Kernel now supports Real Time Extension (RTE) to
processor sets.
— HP-UX Workload Manager version A.02.01.01: Offers greater functionality and
ease of use.