HP-UX 11i v3 March 2011 Release Notes (Edition 3)

• 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. See HP-UX
Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/
hpux-core-docs (Click HP-UX 11i v3).
• Network Interfaces Configuration and Network Services Configuration: Includes fixes for
internally found issues.
• Online Diagnostics: Several monitors will be replaced by corresponding native providers,
which will be available on newer servers. Starting with HP-UX 11i v3 March 2009 release,
OnlineDiag (including STM) is in support mode. OnlineDiag is not supported on newer
platforms, and SysFaultMgmt is the default monitoring mode on both older and newer platforms.
See EMS Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v3 September 2010 Release and STM Release Notes
for HP-UX 11i v3 September 2010 Release at http://docs.hp.com/en/diag.
• PropPlus (SysMgmtPlus): Displays HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) compatible overall
systems status on HP SMH. Enhanced support for the following new and updated property
pages in HP SMH (see hpsmh(1M)): Blade; Memory; Cell Blade. See SysMgmtPlus Release
Notes at http://docs.hp.com/en/diag.
• ProviderSvcsBase: Health test command line enables -runtest and -runtest -a commands
to support configurable options -loop, -timer, -log, -error and -stress. Similar
functionality offered by diaglogd daemon (in the OnlineDiag bundle), will be obsoleted and
provided by the oserrlogd daemon (in the ProviderSvcsBase bundle). See HP-UX
ProviderSvcsBase Release Notes at http://docs.hp.com/en/diag.
• Quality Pack Patch Bundles: Updated for the September 2010 release.
• Software Distributor (SD): Includes defect fixes. See http://www.hp.com/go/sd.
• System Fault Management (SFM): Updated to revision C.07.01.xx.yy with additional support
for more robust inventory and error handling on newer platforms. Switching between SFM
and EMS modes is not available on newer platforms. Enhanced to support the following new
and updated property pages in HP SMH (see hpsmh(1M)): Blade; Memory; Cell Blade. See
SFM Release Notes at http://docs.hp.com/en/diag.
• New: Tunable for aggressive kernel memory caching: Provides tunable
kmem_aggressive_caching to give you control over the caching and pre-allocation of
kernel memory pages.
• Update-UX and SW-GETTOOLS: Delivers defect fixes.
• WBEM Services and providers
HP WBEM Services for HP-UX: Version A.02.09.04 is a minor update to the HP WBEM
Services version A.02.09 that was released with HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3 in September
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2009. Includes defect fixes. Starting with September 2009, HP WBEM Services version
A.02.09 is not available on HP-UX 11i v1. Only defects that are critical in nature will be
addressed on HP-UX 11i v1 systems. See HP WBEM Services Version A.02.09 Release
Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-networking-docs.
◦ HP-UX WBEM Direct Attached Storage Provider: Not supported on HPVM guest OS.
Indication provider supports System GUID and Network address properties. Includes
defect fixes. See HP-UX WBEM Direct Attached Storage Provider Release Notes at http://
hp.com/go/hpux-networking-docs.
◦ HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider: Not supported on HPVM guest OS. Indication
provider supports System GUID and Network address properties. Includes defect fixes.
As OnlineDiag is not supported on newer platforms, the dm_fclp_adapter and
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