HP-UX 11i Version 2 June 2007 Release Notes
What is New at a Glance
What is New in the December 2005 Release?
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• 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.
• Quality Pack Patch Bundle: Included in this release as a superset of the May 2005
HP-UX 11i v2 Quality Pack.
• Software Distributor: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
• SysMgmtBASE bundle: First added to the HP-UX 11i v2 OEs in May 2005, provides
the TUI framework for HP-UX Security Configuration tool and HP-UX Kernel
Configuration. Updated in December 2005 to incorporate defect fixes.
• Software Package Builder: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
• Update-UX: Updated to version B.11.23.0512.033. No longer supports update from
HP-UX 11i v1.6 (B.11.22) to HP-UX 11i v2 December 2005 or later releases.
• New Product: Utilization Provider: Lightweight daemon (utild) records
system-utilization data on a 5-minute interval.
December 2005 Release Notes, Chapter 6: “Disk and File Management”
• New Product: Disks and File Systems (fsweb): Provides a GUI to HP-UX system
administration tasks.
• New Bundle: EnableVxFS: Provides libraries and commands for VXFS.
• HP CIFS Client: Updated to version A.02.01 with a substantially revised and
improved code base.