HP-UX 11i Version 2 March 2004 Release Notes

General System Administration
HP Partitioning
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Summary of Change
Partition Manager version B.11.23.02.00.02 is an update to the new version of Partition
Manager that was released with HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23). That was the first version of
Partition Manager for Itanium-based systems, and provided a new, more graphical
user interface, support for cell local memory (CLM), and configuration of nPartitions on
remote complexes.
Several minor defects were fixed to improve the overall quality of the product. In
addition, the following functionality changes were made:
• At startup, Partition Manager will check the complex for possible configuration
problems. If potential problems are found, the “analyze complex health” action will
be displayed before proceeding to the initial view.
• By default, Partition Manager now validates SSL certificates sent from the CIM
server. Certificate validation can be disabled if SSL security is not important in your
environment.
This change was first reported in HP Security Bulletin SSRT3636 (document id:
HPSBUX0311-296), which is available from the IT Resource Center at
http://itrc.hp.com.
For more information, refer to the “cimserver” and “managing SSL certificates”
sections of the Partition Manager online help at
/opt/hpwebadmin/webapps/mxhelp/parmgr/en/starting.html
Machines Affected This release of Partition Manager is supported on all
Itanium-based server systems that support nPartitions.
Impact
This update improves your ability to create and maintain reliable nPartition
configurations, and increases the security of WBEM connections to remote nPartitions.
Additional steps may be required by you in order to validate SSL certificates. These
steps are detailed in the online help at
/opt/hpwebadmin/webapps/mxhelp/parmgr/en/starting.html#cimserver
Compatibility
There are no known compatibility issues.
Performance
You should be aware of the following items that may affect performance:
• When managing a remote partitionable complex, the performance degrades when
the connection traverses long network distances, e.g. managing a partitionable
complex in California from a system in New York. Furthermore, when managing a
remote system, performance can be improved by connecting to an nPartition
Provider on the remote system, rather than connecting directly to the system's
service processor.
• A noticeable delay may occur at startup, and the first time that each Partition
Manager view is displayed. This is due to the initial compilation of the Java Server
Pages by the HP-UX Tomcat-based Servlet Engine. This compilation occurs the first