HP-UX 11i Version 3 March 2011 Release Notes Operating Environments Update Release Abstract This document provides an overview of what is new, changed, deprecated, or obsoleted in the HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments since the previous update release of HP-UX 11i v3. This document is intended for system administrators responsible for managing HP-UX 11i v3. Administrators are expected to have knowledge of operating system concepts, commands, and configuration.
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Table 2 Previous Documents in This Series (continued) Document Title and Edition Document Supported manufacturing part operating number systems Edition Publication date HP-UX 11i Version 3 September 2007 Release Notes 5992-3231 HP-UX 11i v3 Edition 3 September 2007 HP-UX 11i Version 3 September 2007 Release Notes 5992-1996 HP-UX 11i v3 Edition 2 (retired) September 2007 HP-UX 11i Version 3 September 2007 Release Notes 5992-0698 HP-UX 11i v3 Edition 1 (retired) September 2007 HP-UX 11i v3 Rel
Contents 1 How to use this document............................................................................8 The purpose of the HP-UX 11i Version 3 March 2011 release notes..................................................8 Where you should begin...........................................................................................................8 2 Introduction to HP-UX 11i version 3...............................................................9 HP-UX 11i release names and release identifiers...
Compatibility....................................................................................................................91 Performance......................................................................................................................91 Documentation..................................................................................................................91 Obsolescence..........................................................................................................
Summary of Change..........................................................................................................97 Impact..............................................................................................................................97 Compatibility....................................................................................................................97 Performance............................................................................................................
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1 How to use this document The purpose of the HP-UX 11i Version 3 March 2011 release notes This document is part of a series. Each document in the series describes what is new, changed, deprecated, or obsoleted since the previous release of HP-UX 11i v3 (or, in the case of the initial, February 2007, release, since the September 2005 release of HP-UX 11i v1 and the June 2006 release of HP-UX 11i v2).
2 Introduction to HP-UX 11i version 3 HP-UX 11i v3 is an enterprise release delivering the highest level of integrated virtualization and automation. HP-UX 11i v3 dynamically reduces complexity and cuts deployment times to maximize return on investment. With the March 2008 release, HP began offering new HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments. The new Operating Environments, which offer a richer set of products, are available only for version 3 of HP-UX 11i.
structure, see the HP-UX 11i Version 3 Installation and Update Guide (http://hp.com/go/ hpux-core-docs). Table 4 HP-UX 11i v3 software installation types Installation Type Description Required (always-installed) Software and administration tools needed to create a minimally bootable and maintainable system. Only the drivers for basic hardware are included in this category. You might need to install additional drivers to use all hardware components. Software in this category cannot be deselected.
Table 5 HP-UX 11i v3 OE descriptions (continued) HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environment Description such as HP Process Resource Manager (PRM) and APA. This OE is bundled as HPUX11i-BOE. HP-UX 11i v3 Virtual Server OE (VSE-OE) Designed for customers seeking higher resource utilization or embarking on consolidation projects and need virtualization for a flexible UNIX environment.
machines, and even between chip architectures, we believe the HP-UX operating system provides the most comprehensive investment protection in the industry. For more information about HP-UX compatibility, see the white paper at http://www.hp.com/go/ hpux11icompatibility.
3 What is new This chapter provides a quick overview of what is new, changed, deprecated, or obsoleted in each HP-UX 11i v3 release.
processors or Intel Itanium processors. Includes new HP-UX 11i v3 patches for support of the latest HP Integrity systems with new Core I/O and chipsets. New patches were also added for >1TB LUN boot support, graphics monitors, and future I/O adapters. See “Hardware Enablement Bundle for HP-UX 11i v3” (page 88). 14 • HP Insight Control power management: Version 6.
◦ IB4X-00 Driver for Infiniband: Version B.11.31.1103 provides support for new cards. See IB4X-00 Driver for InfiniBand Release Notes Version Number B.11.31.1103 (March 2011) and HP Fabric Clustering System for InfiniBand on HP-UX Support Matrix, March 2010 at http://hp.com/go/hpux-iocards-docs. (Select HP-UX 11i v3 I/O Cards.) ◦ IEther-00: Version B.11.31.1103 delivers defect fixes. See IEther-00 (iether) B.11.31.1103 Ethernet Driver Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-iocards-docs.
providers. See High Availability Monitors Version A.04.20.31.07 Release Notes at http:// hp.com/go/hpux-ha-monitoring-docs. 16 • HP Insight managed system setup wizard: Supports new hardware and supports upgrading from previous releases of the wizard. See “HP Insight managed system setup wizard” (page 92). • New: HP Operations agent: Version 11.00 helps you monitor the performance of systems in your environment by collecting system performance metrics.
◦ HP Process Resource Manager: Delivers defect fixes. See HP Process Resource Manager Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs. ◦ HP-UX nPartition Configuration Commands: Includes a new verbose option for the parstatus command (applicable only for HP Integrity Superdome 2 servers). See “HP-UX nPartition Configuration Commands” (page 93).
• HP-UX Kernel Configuration (kcweb): A memory leak in kcmond is resolved, and internally found issues are fixed. See “HP-UX Kernel Configuration (kcweb)” (page 96). • HP-UX Software Assistant: When running SWA from the HP-UX command line, you will be prompted for your ITRC User ID and password if they have not been specified. The SWA manpages and documentation have been updated. Also includes defect fixes. See HP-UX Software Assistant Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/swa-docs.
◦ HP-UX WBEM SAS Provider: Version B.11.31.1103 delivers defect fixes. See HP-UX WBEM SAS Provider Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-networking-docs. ◦ HP-UX WBEMP LAN Provider: Version B.11.31.1103 delivers defect fixes. See HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-networking-docs. Disk and file management • HP CIFS Server: HP CIFS Server: Version A.02.04.03 is a fix release based on Samba 3.0.30 with selected fixes from Samba 3.0.31 to Samba 3.0.37. HP CIFS Server A.02.04.
Thunderbird, see the “Known Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Products” page at http:// www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/. • WU-FTPD: Version C.2.6.1 delivers defect fixes. See WU-FTPD C.2.6.1 Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-networking-docs. (Select HP-UX 11i v3 Networking Software.) Also see related products listed under “Security.” Security • HP-UX Auditing System Extensions: Version B.11.31.03.
Libraries and programming • JDK/JRE version 6.0.09: Is a new version of the HP-UX 11i Java Development Kit (JDK) 6.0.x that has been updated to include the Oracle 6.0u22 release's functionality and incorporate defect and security fixes. Additionally, an experimental version of G1 is provided (initially supported in our 6.0.08 release). JDK 6.0.09 Release Notes at http://docs.hp.com/en/ dev.html#Java or http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-java-docs . • JDK/JRE version 5.0.
Channel (fcd and fclp) Host Bus Adapter Support Matrix. Both documents are at http:// hp.com/go/hpux-iocards-docs. • ◦ FibrChanl-02: Contains the fclp driver. Updated with quality improvements. For further information, see FibrChanl-02 (fclp) Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v3 Release Notes (p/n 5991-0462). For information on supported cards, see HP Fibre Channel (fcd and fclp) Host Bus Adapter Support Matrix. Both documents are at http://hp.com/go/hpux-iocards-docs.
• High Availability Monitors (HA Monitors): Upgraded to A.04.20.31.06 to support the update of Event Monitoring Service (EMS) A.04.20.31.06. HA Monitors has been deprecated. Post HP-UX 11i v3 release, HA Monitors will be replaced with Web-based Enterprise Management (WBEM) based providers. See High Availability Monitors Version A.04.20.31.06 Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-ha-monitoring-docs. • HP GlancePlus Pak: HP Performance Agent version 5.
and HP-UX Virtual Partitions Release Notes A.05.07 at http://hp.com/go/hpux-vpars-docs. (Click HP-UX 11i v3 and go to the Getting Started category.) 24 ◦ Partition Manager: Extends support to newer servers. See HP Superdome 2 Partitioning Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-npars-docs. (Click HP-UX 11i v3 and go to the Getting Started category.) ◦ Utilization Provider: Updated to version A.01.08.05.02 to support HP Insight Dynamics version 6.0.1. • HP Serviceguard: Updated to version A.11.20.
• Insight managed system setup wizard: Version A.6.0.1 supports new hardware and supports upgrading from previous releases of the wizard. • Logical Volume Manager (LVM): Provides the automatic increase of pre-allocated extents when the threshold value is reached for space-efficient snapshots; enables you to change the size and mirror count of an original logical volume on a snapshot tree; optimizes resynchronization I/Os of snapshot mirrors by resynchronizing only the unshared units of the extents.
dm_ql_adapter monitors used by Fibre Channel Indication provider will be replaced by HPUXFCNativeIndicationProviderModule on newer servers. See HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-networking-docs. ◦ HP-UX WBEM File System Provider: Allows non-root users to monitor the file system status. See product release notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-networking-docs. ◦ HP-UX WBEM IOTree Indication Provider: Not supported on HPVM guest OS. Includes defect fixes.
• • HP-UX Web Server Suite ◦ New: HP-UX Apache-based Web Server: hpuxwsapache has been replaced by hpuxws22apache (Apache 2.2.8.08), which combines Apache with numerous popular modules from other Open Source projects and provides HP value-added features for HP-UX. See HP-UX Apache-based Web Server v.3.08 Release Notes at https:// h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do? productNumber=HPUXWSATW308.
the Transport Layer Security renegotiation issue are also provided. See JDK 6.0.06 Release Notes at http://docs.hp.com/en/dev.html. • JDK/JRE version 5.0.19: New version of the HP-UX 11i Java Development Kit (JDK) 5.0.x that has been updated to include the Sun 5.0u21 and 5.0u22 releases' functionality and incorporate defect and security fixes. ThreadDumpPath support is also provided. See JDK 5.0.19 Release Notes at http://docs.hp.com/en/dev.html. • SDK/RTE version 1.4.2.x: Not included on the OE media.
◦ FibrChanl-02: Updated with quality improvements. ◦ GigEther-01: As part of the performance improvements in RC scripts for improved reboot time, the Igelan RC script has been enhanced for reducing the time it takes in start-up path. ◦ IB4X-00: Delivers defect fixes. ◦ IEther-00: Updated with quality improvements. ◦ RAID-01: Updated with quality improvements. ◦ SerialSCSI-00: Updated with quality improvements. • HP Instant Capacity: Version B.11.31.09.03.00 delivers defect fixes.
◦ 30 HP Insight Dynamics - VSE for Integrity: The following components have been updated.
• HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit: Version A.11.31.05 delivers defect fixes. • HP System Management Homepage: Provides information about the actions performed on HP SMH. CLI now available. • HP Systems Insight Manager: Version 6.0 provides enhancements in all functionality areas, including Scalability, Reporting, Firmware Updates, License Manager, Heterogeneous support, and other changes. • HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups (ugweb): Delivers defect fixes.
◦ HP-UX WBEM IOTree Indication Provider: Delivers defect fixes. A new configuration file allows tuning of the polling interval. ◦ HP-UX WBEM Kernel Providers: Delivers defect fixes. ◦ HP-UX WBEM RAIDSA PROVIDER: A new provider fetches information regarding error records logged in the RAIDSAPROVDB database. ◦ HP-UX WBEM SAS PROVIDER: A new provider fetches information regarding error records logged in the SASPROVDB database.
• HP-UX Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Version B.11.31.05 enhances logging capability with keystroke and alternate logging. • HP-UX Secure Shell: Version A.05.
March 2010 Release Notes, Chapter 11: “Internationalization” • There are no changes in March 2010 for the products or features that are normally documented in this chapter. March 2010 Release Notes, Chapter 12: “Other functionality” • There are no changes in March 2010 for the products or features that are normally documented in this chapter.
• ◦ scsiU320-00: Updated with quality improvements. ◦ SerialSCSI-00: Updated with quality improvements. ◦ USB-00: Version D.11.31.0909 enables the enhanced legacy USB driver stack, with quality improvements, and added functionality which includes support for USB 2.0 high speed devices and DVD write capability. Mass Storage Stack: Enhanced to do intelligent congestion control in a HP Serviceguard (SG) cluster environment. Requires Serviceguard patch PHSS_39614.
• Logical Volume Manager: Includes new command (vgmove), enhancements to pvmove, and command enhancements for shared volume groups, plus support for forced deactivation. • Network Interfaces Configuration and Network Services Configuration: Two additional attributes are included for modifying IP attributes in the NIC area. • Online Diagnostics: Starting from September 2009, OnlineDiag will not be supported on newer platforms.
September 2009 Release Notes, Chapter 6: “Disk and file management” • MemFS: New mount options added to modify the permissions and ownership of root of the file system during mount. Will eliminate the need to modify the permissions/ownership of root after every mount. • Updated to version B.11.31.07.01 to incorporate defect fixes. • VERITAS File System (VxFS): VxFS 5.0 is delivered as a recommended (default-installed) product. VxFS 4.1 is delivered as a required (always-installed) product.
September 2009 Release Notes, Chapter 10: “Libraries and programming” • Java 2 Standard Edition Platform ◦ JDK/JRE version 6.0.04: Update includes the Sun 6.0u12 and 6.0u13 releases functionality. Incorporates defect and security bulletin fixes. IPv6 support is improved and new flags have been added. ◦ JDK/JRE version 5.0.16 : Update includes the Sun 5.0u18 release functionality. Incorporates defect and security bulletin fixes. IPv6 support is improved. ◦ SDK/RTE version 1.4.2.
• Mass Storage Stack: Enhancements include congestion control, server manageability, ease-of-use, and I/O performance. • Networking and Mass Storage Drivers • ◦ FibrChanl-00: Updated to version B.11.31.0903 for a defect fix. ◦ FibrChanl-01: Updated with quality improvements. ◦ FibrChanl-02: Updated with quality improvements. ◦ GigEther-00: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. ◦ GigEther-01: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
◦ HP Integrity Virtual Machines (Integrity VM): Updated to version 4.1. Includes support for online VM migration, SSH 3rd-party alternative for secure communications, and more. ◦ HP Integrity VM Guest Support Libraries (VMGuestLib): Upgrade to Version 4.1 includes support for the new features of HP Integrity Virtual Machines V4.1.
• HP Serviceguard: Version A.11.19 provides faster failover, improved cluster and package uptime, more robust network monitoring, greater scope and flexibility in network configuration, and more. • HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit: Updated to incorporate a set of defect fixes. • HP System Management Homepage: Provides better user experience by offering custom views - icon and list, and controls to determine settings such as session timeout and login page display.
space processes. Upon storing the error records in log files, the daemon sends EVM notification to the clients that are interested in reading the error logs. • Quality Pack Patch Bundles: Updated for the March 2009 OEUR. • Software Distributor (SD): Updated to incorporate defect fixes. Now delivered in the SysMgmtMin bundle instead of the SwMgmtMin bundle. • Software Package Builder: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
March 2009 Release Notes, Chapter 7: “Internet and Networking” • Firefox, FirefoxSrc: Updated to version 2.0.0.16. Fixes several security vulnerabilities reported by the Mozilla Foundation. • Thunderbird, ThunderbirdSrc: Updated to version 2.0.0.16. Fixes several security vulnerabilities reported by the Mozilla Foundation. • HP CIFS Server: Updated to 3.0j version A.02.03.04. Contains the security fix for CVE-2008-1105 and defect fixes.
March 2009 Release Notes, Chapter 9: “Commands and System Calls” • New: CpioCmdEnh: Can archive and extract files with UID and GID > 60K. Software Pack product. • diskowner(1M) Command: Enhanced to identify the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) partitions present on the disk. Enhanced to list all subsystem names that are all using the specified path. • ioscan(1M): New option can produce a compact listing which includes alias_path property.
September 2008 Release Notes, Chapter 2: “Introduction to HP-UX 11i Version 3” • Original HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments (OEs): The March 2008 release of HP-UX 11i v3 was the last full Operating Environments Update Release (OEUR) release provided for the original HP-UX 11i OEs. • New HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments: With the March 2008 release, HP first presented a set of new Operating Environments for HP-UX 11i v3.
• I/O Subsystem: Includes defect fixes and usability enhancements to enhance the system's availability, performance, and ease-of-use. • Mass Storage Stack: Includes defect fixes and usability enhancements to enhance the system's availability and ease-of-use. • Utility Pricing Solutions ◦ HP Instant Capacity: Includes the ability to create a standby Group Manager to be available for use as an active Group Manager if the current Group Manager is unavailable. Improvements in iCAP and GiCAP logging.
◦ HP Integrity VM Guest Support Libraries (VMGuestLib): Includes support for the new features of HP Integrity Virtual Machines V4.0, which supports the HP-UX 11i v3 operating system as a VM Host. ◦ HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider (VMProvider): Supports the new features of HP Integrity Virtual Machines V4.0, including support for the HP-UX 11i v3 operating system as a VM Host.
• NGROUPS Expansion: Allows users and processes to have group-level permissions based on a larger number of groups than the previous fixed limit. • Obsolescence Bundle: Used during an update when obsolete software on the system needs to be removed. Is automatically selected for updates. During the update process selected obsolete or incompatible products and/or drivers are removed. • Online Diagnostics: Supports updated to support new and future HBAs.
• HP-UX Disks and File Systems: Additional LVM functions are possible, a paging device can be deleted without having to reboot the system, and the NFS automounter and AutoFS functions can be performed. • ONCplus: Updated to version B.11.31.04. Delivers full NFSv4 functionality. Also delivers IPv6 support for the on, rpc.rexd, rpc.rwalld, rpc.rusersd, rusers, and rwall commands and daemons. In addition, performance has been optimized in several areas of NFS. • New: OnlineJFS 5.
September 2008 Release Notes, Chapter 9: “Commands and System Calls” • getaddrinfo(3N) Function: Modified to support Destination Address Selection algorithm defined in RFC 3484. • ioinit(1M) Command: New option -A invokes Critical Resource Analysis and generates usage report, before modifying existing instance number of an IO node. • ioscan(1M) Command: -P option of the command has been enhanced to accept new properties.
new PostScript Printer Description (PPD) files to support additional HP PostScript printers; illegal command line options will now be listed in the banner page; and more. • New and Updated Asian Iconv Converters: Several Asian character sets now have iconv conversion support added to convert data directly from these character sets to and from various transformation formats of Unicode such as UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32.
◦ FibrChanl-01: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. ◦ New: FibrChanl-02: First release on HP-UX 11i v3: recommended product on all OEs. Driver for the Fibre Channel HBAs. ◦ GigEther-01: Change history is located at http://hp.com/go/hpux-iocards-docs. ◦ IB4X-00: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. ◦ IEther-00: Change history is located at http://hp.com/go/hpux-iocards-docs. ◦ RAID-01: Updated with quality improvements. ◦ scsiU320-00: Updated with quality improvements.
◦ New: HP Process Resource Manager: Newly delivered as a recommended product in the BOE, VSE-OE, HA-OE, and DC-OE. ◦ New: HP Virtual Server Environment: Integrates with HP SIM to provide intelligent control of your virtualized environment from one location.
• New: NUMA policy is a tunable and a set of related kernel enhancements that exploit the localities within platforms having a Non-Uniform Memory Architecture. This contrasts with the default symmetric policy that treats all platform resources equally. • Obsolescence Bundle: Used during an update when obsolete software on the system needs to be removed; automatically selected for updates. Will remove several obsolete or incompatible products and/or drivers, including TechSysConf.
March 2008 Release Notes, Chapter 6: “Disk and File Management” • ONCplus: Updated to B.11.31.02. Provides defect fixes and new features, including full NIS 2.3 client functionality (with the exception of password.adjunct support); full CacheFS 2.3 functionality; optimized performance in several areas of NFS; and more. Note: ONC fixes were delivered in patches prior to HP-UX 11i v3. March 2008 Release Notes, Chapter 7: “Internet and Networking” • Firefox, FirefoxSrc: Updated to version 2.0.0.4.
• HP-UX Secure Shell: Updated to version A.04.70.023. The sshd daemon defaults to SSH Protocol 2 in new installations; SSH channel window size has been increased; ssh command and sshd daemon now preserve MAC contexts between packets; new MAC algorithm has been added; and more. • HP-UX Software Assistant: Has replaced Security Patch Check. Messages indicating the deprecation of Security Patch Check will be displayed when the Security Patch Check tool is invoked.
• New: Kernel Access Infrastructure: HP-UX Virtual Memory provides a new set of APIs to map user virtual addresses into the kernel. Useful as a copy avoidance solution where user data can be accessed and modified by kernel contexts, avoiding the copying in and out of data when system calls are invoked. • New: libc Enhancement: Contains a new API called memsetU16(3C), which can be used for memory operations to set area in memory to contain 2-byte word. Delivered as an optional product in all OEs.
◦ – 100BT (btlan): DLKM-enabled. – Ultra160 SCSI (c8xx): Driver is DLKM-enabled, but not all modules in patch are DLKM compliant. Optional Networking Drivers – ◦ • InfiniBand Clustering System: Supports additional PCIe cards; DLKM-enabled. Required Mass Storage Drivers – CommonIO bundle: Support for additional FC HBAs; delivers SAS-COMMON, which contains utilities for managing specific SAS HBAs; delivers FC-COMMON, which contains utilities for managing specific FC HBAs.
• HP Serviceguard: New package-creation process and enhanced support for package dependencies and multi-node packages; additional support for cluster parameters, APA and VLAN, Integrity VM (HPVM), and more. • HP Serviceguard Extension for RAC: Support for VxVM 4.1, Cluster Interconnect Monitoring, SGeRAC Toolkit, Veritas CVM/CFS 4.1, and Oracle 9i & 10g R2 RAC. • Ignite-UX: Supports new hardware for 11i v3, plus other changes. • Update-UX and SW-GETTOOLS: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
• ◦ HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups: Supports managing POSIX users and groups from LDAP database. ◦ HP-UX Kernel Configuration: Defect fixes. ◦ HP-UX Peripheral Devices Manager: Defect fixes. ◦ New: Printer Management tool: A new Web-based printer management tool available on the HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH). WBEM Services and Providers: ◦ HP WBEM Services for HP-UX: Defect fixes.
• • Web Browsers ◦ New: Firefox and Firefox Source: Web browser sets a new standard for internet browsing by providing an easier and more personal way to use the Internet. ◦ New: GTK and GTK Source: Open-source windowing toolkit used by Firefox and Thunderbird. ◦ New: Thunderbird and Thunderbird Source: Email application provides convenient, customizable, rich-featured email access. Web Servers: ◦ New: HP-UX NSA HTTP: Updated to version B.11.31.01.02; enables NSA (Network Server Accelerator).
September 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 11: “Internationalization” • There are no changes in September 2007 for the products or features that are normally documented in this chapter. September 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 12: “Other Functionality” • There are no changes in September 2007 for the products or features that are normally documented in this chapter.
• I/O Subsystem: Several new I/O commands help manage the I/O subsystem, and existing commands have new options and functionality to support the next generation mass storage stack. • New: The Next Generation Mass Storage Stack manages I/O devices, such as SCSI logical units (LUNs). In this release, the mass storage stack delivers functionality designed to enhance server scalability, adaptability, and performance while retaining backward compatibility.
• Daylight Savings Time (DST). Changes for US DST rules. • New: Detect and Strobe: Core-kernel functionality used to limit the amount of time spent in servicing interrupts to a user-defined maximum. Note: Detect and Strobe was previously delivered as patch for HP-UX 11i v1. • New: Disks and File Systems (fsweb): Provides a web-based graphical user interface (GUI) and text user interface (TUI) for File System and Disks system administration tasks.
◦ HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits: Updated to version A.01.10.01. Provides the new HP-UX WLM SAP Toolkit, which identifies SAP processes based on user-defined criteria and uses WLM’s process maps feature to place the SAP processes in specific workload groups. PPUTK obsoleted; SASTK and DMTK deprecated. ◦ Partition Manager: Updated to v2.0 (version B.31.02.03.01) with the ability to enable and disable Hyper-Threading for nPartitions whose cells have processors that are Hyper-Threading capable.
• HP-UX System V IPC Message Queues: Enhanced with dynamic tuning capabilities. Tunables msgmax, msgssz, msgmap, msgseg are obsolete. Added new dynamic tunable msgmbs; indicates maximum kernel memory to be used for messages waiting to be received. Tunables msgmni, msgtql are made dynamic. • New: HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider: Client applications can use this provider to get information about HP-UX Fibre Channel HBAs on the system.
• System Administration Manager (SAM) Auditing and Security Functional Area: System Security Policies subarea of SAM is replaced with the HP--UX Security Attributes Configuration tool; Audited NIS+ Users subarea is obsolete. • System Administration Manager (SAM) Printers and Plotters Functional Area: Launch point in X/ObAM-based GUI mode is now via the HP System Management Homepage.
◦ Network File System (NFS) Services: Provides numerous enhancements, including pcnfsd daemon, which is multithreaded and supports shadow password and Secure RPC; new user mode daemon generates and validates API security tokens, and maps the GSSAPI principal names to the local user and group IDs; additional security mechanisms, such as Secure NFS that supports Kerberos through GSSAPI; NFS access using a firewall; and many other features.
• Internet Services: You can now deselect individual Internet Services during installation or remove filesets later. • BIND: BIND 9.3 includes many new features, including transition support for IPv4 and IPv6. With HP-UX 11i v3, NAMED and NAMED ARGS variables are moved to /etc/rc.config.d/ namesvrs. • DHCPv4 (bootpd): New option sa configures the tftp server, providing control of the siaddr field of the dhcp packet.
Initial (February 2007) Release Notes, Chapter 8: “Security” 70 • New: HP-UX 11i Security Containment: Provides compartments, which isolate unrelated resources on a system to prevent catastrophic system damage if one compartment is penetrated. When configured in a compartment, an application (processes, binaries, data files and communication channels used) has restricted access to resources outside its compartment.
Initial (February 2007) Release Notes, Chapter 9: “Commands and System Calls” • /etc/skel/.profile shell script: . (current path) in $PATH is deprecated • 32-bit pstat System Call (Deprecated): When compiling a 32-bit application that uses the pstat () system call, the compiler option -D_PSTAT64 must now be specified. This causes pstat () to use 64-bit fields rather than 32-bit fields. The application still remains a 32-bit application.
• New: pselect() System Call: Added to meet the UNIX 2003 Standard. Provides additional parameter options to users of the select() system call. Timeout granularity may be specified in seconds and nanoseconds. A new signal mask parameter is also available to be used for the duration of system call. • psrset Command: Enhanced to manage the Real Time Extension processor set; enhanced to support one more PSET attribute type called LCPU.
Initial (February 2007) Release Notes, Chapter 10: “Libraries and Programming” • Bundled C Compiler: Updated to version A.06.12 on Itanium®-based servers and B.11.11.16 on PA-RISC. Highly compatible with previous versions; diagnostic messages have changed; more erroneous and suspicious source constructs are diagnosed.
• Link Editor (ld): Additional options and other changes since patch PHSS_32864, September 2005. • New: Mercury Library (libhg): Provides high performance interfaces between the user programs and the kernel making it possible to transfer key pieces of information back and forth at high speeds. • Software Transition Kit (STK): Designed to help transition HP-UX applications from earlier versions of HP-UX to the latest version of HP-UX. Will not be available for HP-UX 11i v3.
• Asian Bitmap Fonts: Enhanced to support the latest national standards and ISO 10646. • Fallback Font Support: For text-based GUI applications, in the event there are no glyphs, the application will display “?” or “::” characters. • Asian Functionality (Obsoleted and Deprecated): Several legacy functions are obsolete and have been removed. Also, certain Asian printer lp models, utility/library routines, and dot bitmap fonts have been deprecated.
• Networking and Mass Storage Drivers ◦ Gigabit Ethernet: The igelan, gelan and btlan products are enhanced with new features, including online deletion (OLD) and module packaging. ◦ HyprFabrc-00: Supports only Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) HF2 cards. HF1 Cards will not be supported.
• New: Distributed Systems Administration Utilities: Includes an interface expansion, providing long username and long hostnames. • New: Enhanced User Core File Naming: New command, coreadm, introduced to uniquely name application core files created by abnormally terminating user processes. • Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit: Includes support for VERITAS Cluster File System (CFS) in a Serviceguard A.11.17 environment, support for Serviceguard 11.17.
◦ New: Utilization Provider: Lightweight daemon (utild) that records system-utilization data on a 5-minute interval; data recorded includes CPU, memory, disk, and network utilization; also includes a WBEM provider for access to the data. ◦ vPar Provider: WBEM provider displays information about virtual partitions. Read-only; clients cannot modify virtual partition configurations with it. • HP Serviceguard: Updated to version A.11.17.
• HP-UX WBEM IOTree Provider: Now displays information about all slots on HP-UX 11i v3 system. • New: HP-UX WBEM Online Operations Service Provider: Not currently supported; intended to support features in future releases of HP-UX 11i v3. • HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider: Updated to version 11.31.01, but no new feature changes. • Ignite-UX: Updated to version C.7.0.
system component health, and consolidated log viewing. HP SMH also provides Terminal User Interfaces (TUIs). • System Fault Management: Features include Event Manager-Common Information Model Provider and Error Management Technology. SFMIndicationProvider and Log Viewer not available; other changes included.
◦ Network Information Service (NIS): Provides several new features including support for shadow mode; support for enabling DNS forwarding mode; support for long uname, hostname, and username; and other features. ◦ NIS+: Obsoleted. ◦ PCNFSD: pcnfsd daemon is multithreaded. Support for shadow password and secure RPC; support for printer names up to the PCNFSD protocol limitation of 64 characters. • New: Unified File Cache: Integrates the page cache and buffer cache to provide coherency for file access.
• inetd(1): Two new command line options, -p (limit number of processes invoked by inetd) and -a (enable user level auditing pf processes). Support for large hostnames and large PIDs. • libc: Numerous changes in APIs. • Mailx, Elm, and Talk: elm(1M) and mailx(1M) are long-user-name compliant. • R-commands: long username is supported. • Sendmail: Version 8.13.3 has numerous new features. • TFTP: tftpd™ (server) and tftp™ (client) now support IPv6 addresses.
(authentication, integrity, confidentiality) over IP networks between systems and devices that implement the IPsec protocol suite. • HP-UX Secure Shell: Updated to version A.04.40.005 with new features including an sftp only solution in a chroot environment; TCP wrappers support for IPv6; Standard Mode Security Extensions (SMSE) enhanced to provide the “Audit all users and events” feature; and other features, as well as defect fixes.
kctune now allows some tunable values to be specified in terms of the percentage of some system resource; changes have been made to the kernel configuration commands to improve resiliency and performance; tunable parameter values may now be overridden on the boot loader command line; and several other changes, including some obsolescences. 84 • iostat Command: Enhanced to report activity for each active lunpath to the LUNs. Also, the new option -L has been added, which lists active lunpath statistics.
• swapon and swapinfo Commands: swapon command enhanced to support setting/unsetting of primary swap device for next boot; swapinfo command supports new -s option to display settings of the primary swap for next boot. • sysdef Command: Deprecated. Reports incorrect values for some tunable parameters such as msgmap, sema, and shmem. • syslogd Command: Enhanced to log multibyte message strings correctly. • usermod has been modified to selectively prevent the movement of home directories with -m option.
information. The library will reduce the dependency on other HP-UX commands for I/O information. • libpthread Library: Added new API, pthread_setschedprio(), to set scheduling priority of target thread. • Link Editor (ld): Additional linker options introduced since patch PHSS_34440, June 2006, and other changes. • Mercury Library (libhg): Provides high performance interfaces between the user programs and the kernel making it possible to transfer key pieces of information back and forth at high speeds.
• New: Internationalized PostScript Printing Support: psfontpf: New PostScript printer filter psfontpf enables printing of non-English international characters in text files and web pages. • Asian Printing: Asian lpmodel files and filters have been enhanced to support important Asian national standards and ISO 10646.
4 Hardware-specific information This chapter provides information regarding supported systems, as well as other information about software that is hardware related. Hardware Enablement Bundle for HP-UX 11i v3 Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle for HP-UX 11i v3 (HWEnable11i) provides patches required for new systems and for add-on hardware supported on HP-UX 11i v3, including I/O adapters and devices.
Mass Storage Stack The mass storage stack manages I/O devices, such as SCSI logical units (LUNs). In HP-UX 11i v3, it delivers functionality designed to enhance server scalability, adaptability, and performance. Summary of Change Storage manageability has been enhanced so that default hardware path aliases are automatically created. This functionality requires the HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31) GIO cumulative patch PHKL_41085, which is delivered in the March 2011 OEUR.
NOTE: HP-UX 11i v3 is not supported on workstations. Further information about HP workstations can be found at the following website: http://hp.com/go/workstationsupport Additional information regarding HP servers can be found at the following websites: • HP BladeSystem: http://www.hp.com/go/blades • HP 9000 Server Family: http://www.hp.com/go/hp9000 • HP Integrity Server Family: http://www.hp.
5 General system administration This chapter presents information of particular interest to system administrators. EMSWeb The EMSWeb tool (bundle EventMonitorGUI) available from HP SMH enables you to manage requests to monitor resources on the system.
Compatibility There are no known compatibility issues. Performance The patches include recommended and optional performance improvements. Documentation The bundle “readme" document can be found on the OE media under the /DOCS/PATCH directory, or on the IT Resource Center website: http://itrc.hp.com (Select maintenance and support for hp products. Then select standard patch bundles.) Also refer to the latest editions of the following documents, available at http://hp.
Obsolescence Not applicable. HP Partitioning and Virtual Server Environment HP-UX nPartition Configuration Commands The HP-UX nPartition Configuration Commands is a set of system administration commands to create, modify, and remove partitions, control power to cells and I/O chassis, flash/turn off attention LEDs for cells, cabinets and I/O chassis, and display information about a hardware partitionable complex and recommended nPartition configuration.
Impact There is no known customer impact. Compatibility There are no known compatibility issues. Performance There are no known performance issues. Documentation Partition Manager documentation includes the following: • Partition Manager help • parmgr(1M) manpage • smh(1M) manpage Obsolescence Not applicable. Utilization Provider The Utilization Provider version A.01.08.05.02 is a lightweight daemon (utild) that records system-utilization data on a 5-minute interval.
Obsolescence Not applicable. HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups (ugweb) The HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups (ugweb) tool allows you to manage user and group accounts.
Documentation For additional information, see the following: • Accounts for Users and Groups help • ugweb(1M) manpage • smh(1M) and sam(1M) manpages Obsolescence Not applicable. HP-UX Kernel Configuration (kcweb) The HP-UX Kernel Configuration tool allows you to configure an HP-UX kernel and monitor consumption of kernel resources controlled by parameters. The Kernel Configuration tool provides a web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) and a Text User Interface (TUI).
Summary of Change The Quality Pack bundles is released every 6 months for HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) with a sizable increase in the number of defect fix patches included. A defect-repair patch is included in the Quality Pack only after it has successfully completed comprehensive internal testing as well as achieved 300 customer downloads. Impact The Quality Pack patch bundles are used by customers for the proactive update and maintenance of their HP-UX systems.
Impact The SRPv3 support enables you to use the SD commands (for instance, to remove/install configurations on global and local SRPs) in an SRPv3 environment. Compatibility There are no known compatibility issues. Performance There are no known performance issues. Documentation The following documents are available at http://hp.
6 Disk and file management This chapter provides information on directory, file system, and disk management. HP-UX Disks and File Systems (fsweb) The Disks & File Systems (fsweb; bundle name FileSystems) is an HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) tool that can be used for file systems and disks system administration tasks. The tool provides both web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) and Text User Interface (TUI).
Impact There is no known customer impact. Compatibility There are no known compatibility issues. Performance There are no known performance issues. Documentation For additional information, see the following: • Product help that is integrated with the tool • ncweb(1M), smh(1M), and sam(1M) manpages Obsolescence Not applicable.
7 Internet and networking This chapter describes new and changed Internet and networking functionality supported by the HP-UX 11i v3 release. For changes to products and features related to this chapter, see “What is new in the HP-UX 11i v3 March 2011 release” (page 13).
8 Security This chapter covers changes and enhancements to security services. For changes to products and features related to this chapter, see “What is new in the HP-UX 11i v3 March 2011 release” (page 13).
9 Commands and system calls This chapter provides information about new and changed commands and system calls. efi_rm(1M) command The efi_rm(1M) command is used to remove an EFI file. Summary of Change The efi_rm(1M) command has been enhanced to recover free space in the EFI volume of the EFI file system if it was not updated properly by earlier use of efi_rm(1M). Impact Free space in EFI volume of EFI file system will be updated properly when the efi_rm(1M) command is used.
Performance There are no known performance issues. Documentation See the fcntl(2) manpage. Obsolescence Not applicable. poll(2) system call The poll(2) system call provides a general mechanism for reporting I/O conditions associated with a set of file descriptors and for waiting until one or more specified conditions becomes true.
pstat_getpathname(2) system call The pstat_getpathanme(2) system call returns the pathname of the given file. Summary of Change Previously, the pstat_getpathanme(2) system call returned the pathname of the given file only if all the components of the pathname were found in the Directory Name Lookup Cache (DNLC) of recent name lookups. With the March 2011 release, the pstat_getpathname(2) system call has been enhanced to increase the possibility of returning the pathname of a file.
Compatibility With this change, applications that used to get an ETXTBSY error from rename(2) and unlink(2) will no longer get the error. A kernel variable named mvrm_txtbsy_off has been introduced and can be used to switch between the old and the new behavior using adb(1). By default, this variable is set to 1 to provide the new behavior (i.e., do not return ETXTBSY error from rename(2) and unlink(2) when invoked on a running executable).
10 Libraries and programming This chapter covers a variety of changes of particular interest to programmers, such as changes to compilers, editors, and libraries. For changes to products and features related to this chapter, see “What is new in the HP-UX 11i v3 March 2011 release” (page 13).
11 Internationalization This chapter describes changes internationalization functionality, including text fonts and converters relating to various international languages. Chinese GB18030 Locale Method The Chinese GB18030 locale method provides conversion support between multibyte file code and internal wide character process code for the Chinese zh_CN.gb18030 locale.
Documentation See iconv(1) and iconv(3C) manpages for more information about the iconv functionality. Obsolescence Not applicable.
12 Other functionality This chapter covers additional applications or functionality in the Operating Environments. There are no changes in March 2011 for the products or features that are normally documented in this chapter.
13 Support and other resources Contacting HP Before you contact HP Be sure to have the following information available before you call contact HP: • Technical support registration number (if applicable) • Product serial number • Product model name and number • Product identification number • Applicable error message • Add-on boards or hardware • Third-party hardware or software • Operating system type and revision level HP contact information For the name of the nearest HP authorized reselle
Related information NOTE: Documents at http://docs.hp.com are being migrated to the HP Business Support Center (BSC) website (http://hp.com/bizsupport), which houses both technical documentation and additional product support information. When the migration is complete, under the HP-UX section of the http://docs.hp.com homepage, you will find a link to redirect you to the new BSC location. For more information, see “More info on document moves to BSC” at the bottom of the http:// docs.hp.com/ homepage.
Other HP web resources • • HP Servers ◦ HP BladeSystem: http://www.hp.com/go/blades ◦ HP Integrity Server Family: http://www.hp.com/go/integrity ◦ HP 9000 Server Family: http://www.hp.com/go/hp9000 HP Workstations http://hp.com/go/workstations • HP Software Depot http://hp.com/go/softwaredepot • IT Resource Center (ITRC) http://itrc.hp.com. • HP Software Releases and Media http://www.hp.com/softwarereleases/releases-media2/index.html • Developer & Solution Partner Program (DSPP) http://www.
