HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2007 Release Notes

• New Product: HP Integrity VM Support Library (VMGuestLib): Subset of the HP Integrity
Virtual Machines API Library used by HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider.
• HP Partitioning
— HP Global Workload Manager: Central Management Server (CMS), one of the gWLM
components that was delivered on the AR media, has been removed from the media.
— HP-UX Workload Manager: Updated to version A.03.00.01 with cleaner installations
and the ability to manage a complex with mixed architectures.
— nPartition Provider: Updated to version B.23.01.05.01 to add support for new cell-based
HP servers.
— Partition Manager v2.0: Updated to version B.23.02.01.02 to add support for new
cell-based HP servers, improvements under HP SIM and HP SMH, and defect fixes.
— New Product: vPar Provider: Used by HP WBEM Services for HP-UX to extract
information about virtual partitions on the system.
• 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.
• HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit: Updated to version A.11.23.04 to incorporate fixes for two
defects.
• 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.
• 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.
• HP WBEM Services for HP-UX: Updated to version A.02.00.08 to incorporate defect fixes.
• 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 groups.
• HP-UX Kernel Configuration: Now a plug-in tool in the HP System Management Homepage.
TUI changed from previous ObAM-based TUI.
• 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.
• New Product: HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider: Used by client applications to
determine information about Fibre Channel HBAs and their properties.
• 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.
• New Product: HP-UX WBEM LVM Provider: Used by client applications to determine
information about the LVM via HP WBEM Services for HP-UX.
• New Product: HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider: Used by client applications to determine
information about SCSI HBAs present on the system.
• 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 on the AR DVD; it is not included in the December 2005
Operating Environments.
• Obsolescence Bundle: Upon update to December 2005, now removes MySQL in addition to
other obsolete products.
• Online Diagnostics: Updated to include HPVM enablement, as well as integration of slview
with HP System Management Homepage.
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