HP-UX 11i Version 2 September 2006 Release Notes

What is New at a Glance
What is New in the May 2005 Release?
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with each OE instance hosting its own set of applications in an isolated
environment. The FEATURE11i patch bundle, delivered on the OE media,
includes required patches for the installation of this product.
— HP-UX Workload Manager: Updated to version A.03.00 with more flexibility in
resource management and more secure environments.
— HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits: Pay Per Use Toolkit and its utilitydc
command now deprecated.
— nPartition Provider: Upgraded to version B.11.23.01.04.00.x to incorporate
defect fixes and performance improvements.
— Partition Manager: Now runs as an application under HP System Management
Homepage, which has several effects.
— PRM Libraries: Bundle updated to version C.03.00. PRM-Sw-Krn fileset updated
to version C.01.03. When upgrading HP Process Resources Manager, you will
need to reboot the system.
— New Product: vPar Provider: Extracts information about virtual partitions on a
system. Now delivered with HP-UX 11i v2.
• HP Servicecontrol Manager: Replaced by HP Systems Insight Manager.
• 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.