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

• Software Package Builder: New product; provides a visual method to create and edit

software packages using the HP-UX Software Distributor package format.

• System Administration Manager: Introduces the HP-UX Kernel Configuration and

HP-UX Peripheral Devices tools. SAM is available as PA-RISC binaries on HP-UX

11i v2 and requires the Aries translator.

• System-V IPC Kernel Tunable Parameter (semmap)(Obsolete): The memory

allocation of semaphore sets previously controlled by semmap is now done

dynamically by the kernel. The semmap kernel parameter is no longer tunable.

• System-V IPC Kernel Tunable Parameter (semmsl): Minimum value now 1; default

value 2048; upper limit remains 10240.

•The update-ux Command: New with HP-UX 11i v2. Allows update of the HP-UX

operating system from HP-UX 11i v1.6 (11.22) to HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23).

Chapter 5: “Disk and File Management”

• AutoFS: Upgraded to include the features of the SUN ONC AutoFS version 2.3

product, as well as performance enhancements, including on-demand mounting. The

system C library, libc, changed to improve AutoFS performance.

• Automounter: Obsoleted. AutoFS is the recommended replacement.

• HP CIFS Client version A.01.09: Provides defect fixes and new features, including

Kerberos authentication, integration with the system Kerberos cache, and improved

interoperability with third-party CIFS servers that do no support older SMB

infolevels.

• HP CIFS Server version 2.2e: Based on Samba version 2.2.5. Incorporates new tools

and new configuration parameters.

• Logical Volume Manager: Supports SLVM in configurations of up to 16 nodes. LVM

powerfail message changed.

• VERITAS File System (VxFS/HP OnlineJFS/JFS) 3.5: New version contains new

and changed features, including new and/or enhanced tunable parameters, enhanced

VxFS commands, new I/O error handling policy, new default intent log mode, new

default system block size, VxFS system activity reporter, forced unmounts, and more.

Enables creation of file systems up to 4 TB (maximum file size is 2TB).

• VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) 3.5: New features include VERITAS Cluster

Volume Manager 3.5 for HP-UX (purchased separately); Device Discovery Layer;

SIG Licensing Product; and VERITAS Enterprise Administrator. VxVM 3.5 offers

significant enhancements over the previous VxVM 3.1, which speed transactions,

reduce processing time, and improve bandwidth usage.

Chapter 6: “ Internet and Networking”

• HP OSI Transport Services/9000 version C.12.00: Provides otsshownsaps (lists

NSAPs configured on OTS/9000) and expedited data transfer on RFC1006 subnet.

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

Release Notes.