HP-UX 11i v3 March 2013 Release Notes

March 2013 Release Notes, General system administration
• Distributed Systems Administration Utilities (DSAU): Delivers defect fixes. See Distributed
Systems Administration Utilities V2.7 Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs.
• Dynamic Root Disk (DRD): Provides reduced downtime in HP-UX with DRD and SoftReboot.
See DRD Release Notes at http://www.hp.com/go/drd.
• New: Enhanced boot capability: Starting with the March 2013 release of HP-UX 11i v3,
maximum boot disk size supported with Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is increased from 2
TB to 16 TB. See “Enhanced boot capability” (page 118).
• New: HP Operations agent: Version 11.11 helps you monitor the health and performance of
the system. With additional licenses, you can use the HP Operations agent in an environment
managed by HP Operations Manager (HPOM). Newly added as a recommended
(default-installed) product in the DC-OE, HA-OE, and VSE-OE. See HP Operations agent
release notes at http://h20230.www2.hp.com/selfsolve/manuals. (Requires HP Passport.
After logging in, search for “Operations Agent.”)
• HP System Management Homepage: Starting with version A.3.2.5, SMH supports Java 7.0.
Also includes defect fixes. See HP System Management Homepage 3.2.5 Release Notes at
http://hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs. (Select HP-UX System Administration.)
• HP-UX 11i v3 Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i): Updated for HP-UX 11i v3
with patches that enhance or provide new or improved core features. New patches were
added for support for the Intel Itanium 9500 Processor Series; for support of larger than 2 TB
disks by bootloader, crashdump, swapinfo, swapon and efi_utils support; support of Unicode
6.1; performance enhancements to locking mechanisms, memory management modules,
virtualization and the audit subsystem. See “HP-UX 11i v3 Feature Enablement Patch Bundle”
(page 120).
• HP-UX 11i v3 Quality Pack Patch Bundles: Updated with additional defect-fix patches for the
March 2013 release. See “HP-UX 11i v3 Quality Pack Patch Bundles” (page 120).
• HP-UX Kernel Configuration (kcweb): Delivers defect fixes. See HP System Management
Homepage 3.2.5 Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs.
• HP-UX Software Assistant: Version C.02.95 provides support to Java™ SE7. See HP-UX
Software Assistant Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/swa.
• Ignite-UX: Version C.7.16 provides support for boot disks up to 16 TB and delivers support
for code signing, 1 TB swap/dump volume, and cluster DSF, enabling the creation and
recovery of archives for volume groups that have cluster DSFs configured on them. Version
C.7.16 (or later) is required for cold installation/recovery of the HP-UX 11i v3 March 2013
OEUR on >2 TB boot disks. Also delivers defect fixes and supports the deprecation of old
VxFS Disk Layout Versions (DLVs) for future releases of VxFS. For changes to Ignite-UX, see
Ignite-UX Release Notes at http://www.hp.com/go/ignite-ux-docs. For more information
about DLVs in VxFS, see Veritas File System 5.0.1 Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/
hpux-LVM-VxVM-docs.
• Online Diagnostics: Delivers defect fixes. Is in support mode and is not supported on newer
platforms. See EMS Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v3 March 2013 Release and STM Release
Notes for HP-UX 11i v3 March 2013 Release at http://hp.com/go/
hpux-diagnostics-online-docs.
• PropPlus (SysMgmtPlus): Delivers defect fixes. See SysMgmtPlus Release Notes at www.hp.com/
go/hpux-diagnostics-sysmgmtplus-docs.
• SoftRebootEnh: Updated to support Dynamic Root Disk (DRD). With DRD, supports Superdome
and Superdome 2. See SoftReboot White Paper at http://www.hp.com/go/
hpux-core-docs-11iv3 and DRD Release Notes at http://www.hp.com/go/drd.
• Software Distributor (SD): Updated to support code signing and to deliver defect fixes. See
http://www.hp.com/go/sd-docs.
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