HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2007 Release Notes

• Selectable Network Drivers:
— ATM Networking Solution: Now available on Itanium®-based platforms. Only ATM
adapter A5513A supported.
— HyperFabric: The/opt/clic/bin/clic_probe has superseded the
/opt/clic/bin/clic_ping utility.
— INTL100: Required for HP Integrity rx2600 server, as well as HP zx6000 workstation.
A6792A add-on card not supported on HP-UX 11i v2.
— Online Addition and Replacement (OLAR): New olrad command provides critical
resource analysis routines. New hotplugd daemon provides Doorbells capability. The
rad command deprecated.
— PCI Mux Networking Solution, TermIO-00: Now available on Itanium®-based platforms.
— PCI Token Ring Networking Solution: Now available Itanium®-based platforms.
• ATI FireGL X1 and ATI FireGL Z1: Provide compatibility with, and performance increase
from, ATI FireGL4 card. Appropriate drivers shipped with the products.
• 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.
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