HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2005 Release Notes

What is New at a Glance
What is New in the Initial (October 2003) HP-UX 11i v2 Release?
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• ServiceGuard Manager version A.03.00: Provides new features, including
availability in five languages, support for clusters on different subnets, ability to
display several sessions, and Alerts icon to show the most critical problem.
• Software Distributor: Runs in Intel Itanium as a native application. Supports
DLKM software packaging.
• Software Package Builder: New product; provides a visual method to create and edit
software packages using the HP-UX Software Distributor package format.
• System Administration Manager: Introduces the HP-UX Kernel Configuration and
HP-UX Peripheral Devices tools. SAM is available as PA-RISC binaries on HP-UX
11i v2 and requires the Aries translator.
• System-V IPC Kernel Tunable Parameter (semmap)(Obsolete): The memory
allocation of semaphore sets previously controlled by semmap is now done
dynamically by the kernel. The semmap kernel parameter is no longer tunable.
• System-V IPC Kernel Tunable Parameter (semmsl): Minimum value now 1; default
value 2048; upper limit remains 10240.
•The update-ux Command: New with HP-UX 11i v2. Allows update of the HP-UX
operating system from HP-UX 11i v1.6 (11.22) to HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23).
Initial Release Notes, Chapter 5: “Disk and File Management”
• AutoFS: Upgraded to include the features of the SUN ONC AutoFS version 2.3
product, as well as performance enhancements, including on-demand mounting. The
system C library, libc, changed to improve AutoFS performance.
• Automounter: Obsoleted. AutoFS is the recommended replacement.
• HP CIFS Client version A.01.09: Provides defect fixes and new features, including
Kerberos authentication, integration with the system Kerberos cache, and improved
interoperability with third-party CIFS servers that do no support older SMB
infolevels.
• HP CIFS Server version 2.2e: Based on Samba version 2.2.5. Incorporates new tools
and new configuration parameters.
• Logical Volume Manager (LVM): Supports SLVM in configurations of up to 16 nodes.
LVM powerfail message changed.
• VERITAS File System (VxFS/HP OnlineJFS/JFS) 3.5: New version contains new
and changed features, including new and/or enhanced tunable parameters, enhanced
VxFS commands, new I/O error handling policy, new default intent log mode, new
default system block size, VxFS system activity reporter, forced unmounts, and more.
Enables creation of file systems up to 4 TB (maximum file size is 2 TB).
• VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) 3.5: New features include VERITAS Cluster
Volume Manager 3.5 for HP-UX (purchased separately); Device Discovery Layer;
SIG Licensing Product; and VERITAS Enterprise Administrator. VxVM 3.5 offers
significant enhancements over the previous VxVM 3.1, which speed transactions,
reduce processing time, and improve bandwidth usage.
Initial Release Notes, Chapter 6: “ Internet and Networking”
• HP OSI Transport Services/9000 version C.12.00: Provides otsshownsaps (lists
NSAPs configured on OTS/9000) and expedited data transfer on RFC1006 subnet.