HP-UX 11i Version 2 March 2004 Release Notes

What’s New at a Glance

What’s New in the Initial HP-UX 11i v2 Release?

Chapter 3

• 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.

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 Supports 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: New dynamic tunable parameters available.

• GlancePlus Pak version 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.

— HP-UX Processor Sets: The psrset command enhanced to display Locality

Domain information. Kernel now supports Real Time Extension (RTE) to

processor sets.

— HP-UX Workload Manager version A.02.01.01: Offers greater functionality and

ease of use.

— HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits version A.01.04.01: Now has a toolkit for

BEA WebLogic Server.

1. The following summaries refer to the initial (October 2003) HP-UX 11i Version 2

Release Notes.