HP-UX 11i Version 2 June 2006 Release Notes
Table Of Contents
- HP-UX 11i Version 2 June 2006 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
- What is in This Chapter?
- What is New in the June 2006 Release?
- What is New in the March 2006 Release?
- What is New in the December 2005 Release?
- What is New in the May 2005 Release?
- What is New in the September 2004 Release?
- What is New in the March 2004 Release?
- What is New in the Initial (October 2003) HP-UX 11i v2 Release?
- 4 Hardware-Specific Information
- What is in This Chapter?
- Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle for HP-UX 11i v2
- HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition
- Networking and Mass Storage Drivers
- Always-Installed Networking Drivers
- Selectable Networking Drivers
- Always-Installed Mass Storage Drivers
- Supported Systems
- Finding Firmware Information
- Utility Pricing Solutions
- 5 General System Administration
- What is in This Chapter?
- Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i)
- HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider
- HP Integrity VM Support Library
- HP Partitioning
- HP Serviceguard WBEM Providers
- HP System Management Homepage
- HP WBEM Services for HP-UX
- HP-UX Kernel Configuration
- Ignite-UX
- Online Diagnostics
- Quality Pack Patch Bundle
- Software Distributor
- 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 May 2005 Release?
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• 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. Compatibility issue noted with certain
configurations of Bastille.
• 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 waconf command.
• 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.
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.