HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2007 Release Notes

— HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits: Pay Per Use Toolkit and its utilitydc command
now deprecated.
— nPartition Provider: Upgraded to version B.11.23.01.04.00.x to incorporate defect fixes
and performance improvements.
— Partition Manager: Now runs as an application under HP System Management
Homepage, which has several effects.
— PRM Libraries: Bundle updated to version C.03.00. PRM-Sw-Krn fileset updated to
version C.01.03. When upgrading HP Process Resources Manager, you will need to
reboot the system.
— New Product: vPar Provider: Extracts information about virtual partitions on a system.
Now delivered with HP-UX 11i v2.
• HP Servicecontrol Manager: Replaced by HP Systems Insight Manager.
• HP Serviceguard: Unchanged for this release. Support for HP-UX Virtual Partitions and
HP-UX 11i Security Containment tested and confirmed. Current Serviceguard products
certified by HP for coexistence with Shadow Passwords. Limit of 31 bytes for hostname
within Serviceguard clusters. Note that Serviceguard uses ports and services which may be
disabled or blocked in certain Bastille configurations, security levels, or firewall
configurations. Thus Serviceguard is incompatible with those specific configurations.
• HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit: Updated to version A.11.23.03 with improved failover
performance for rpcbind failures, as well as defect fixes.
• New Product: HP System Management Homepage (bundle SysMgmtWeb): A Web-based
interface that consolidates and simplifies single system management for HP servers, now
available for HP-UX 11i v1 and v2.
• New to HP-UX 11i v2 OEs: HP Systems Insight Manager: Replaces HP Servicecontrol
Manager. Updated to version 4.2 with support for System Management Homepage and
other products.
• HP-UX Peripheral Device Tool (pdweb): Updated to version B.11.23.04 with support for the
Node and Host Name Expansion, as well updating of the waconfcommand.
• Ignite-UX: Updated to version C.6.2.x with updated documentation, defect fixes, and
enhancements.
• Kernel tunable hdlpreg_hash_locks: Deprecated and planned for future obsolescence.
• New Product: Node and Host Name Expansion (NodeHostNameXpnd) product bundle:
Provides the ability to set node and host names up to 255 bytes. Now available on Software
Pack.
• Obsolescence Bundle: Now removes ObAM 5 and HP-UX Software Development Kit and
Runtime Environment for the Java® 2 Standard Edition Platform (SDK/RTE) v1.2, in addition
to other obsolete products, upon installation of HP-UX 11i v2 May 2005.
• Online Diagnostics (OnlineDiag): Now includes support for HP-UX Virtual Partitions
(vPars) A.04.01 and Node and Host Name Expansion, as well as other changes.
• Quality Pack: Once again HP-UX 11i v2 includes Quality Pack, as will future releases of
HP-UX 11i v2.
• Software Distributor: Updated with new versions of the gzip and swpackage commands
to provide added capability and increased performance.
• Software Package Builder: Updated with product enhancements.
• Update-UX: Updated to reflect defect fixes. No new features or functionality.
• Upper Layer Module (ULM) Services: Deprecated.
May 2005 Release Notes, Chapter 6: “Disk and File Management”
• 32 Terabyte (TB) File System Support: VxFS 3.5 file systems of up to 32 TB now certified.
• HFS: HP-UX’s implementation of UFS, now deprecated and planned for future obsolescence.
• HP CIFS Client: Updated to version A.01.09.03 to incorporate defect fixes.
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