HP-UX 11i v3 March 2013 Release Notes

• Software Distributor: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
• Software Package Builder: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
• System Fault Management: Now the default monitoring mode. Supports PCI Express interface
events on selected systems. New providers are introduced; MP Provider is enhanced. More
enhancements are included, as well as defect fixes.
• Update-UX: Supports the new OEs: BOE, VSE-OE, HA-OE, DC-OE. No new features or
functionality in update-ux.
• WBEM Services and Providers
HP WBEM Services for HP-UX: Updated to version A.02.07: Major update includes IPv6
Enablement, Audit Logging, Repository Archive, Indication Subscription Management ,
and Privilege Separation.
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◦ HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider: Now supported by the System Management
Homepage. New classes have been added to provide additional information.
◦ HP-UX WBEM Kernel Providers (formerly KC Providers): Bundle now contains the Swap
provider, and the Boot and Crash Dump providers.
◦ HP-UX WBEM LVM Provider: Updated to support association between a Volume Group
and the Logical Volumes created within the group, and other configurations.
◦ HP-UX WBEM Online Operations Service Provider: Updated to version B.01.02.01 to
incorporate defect fixes.
◦ HP-UX WBEM RAIDSA Provider: New classes have been added to get the consolidated
health status of the Smart Array HBAs available on the system.
◦ HP-UX WBEM SAS Provider: New classes have been added to get the consolidated health
status of the SAS HBAs available on the system.
◦ HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider: Now supported by the HP System Management Homepage.
March 2008 Release Notes, Chapter 6: “Disk and File Management”
• Logical Volume Manager: This release of LVM supports two versions of volume groups. Version
2.0, which is new in the March 2008 release of HP-UX 11i v3, enables the configuration of
larger volume groups, logical volumes, physical volumes, and other parameters.
• New: MirrorDisk/UX: Is the mirroring component of Logical Volume Manager, and prevents
data loss due to disk failures by maintaining multiple copies of data on separate disks. Newly
delivered as an recommended product in the VSE-OE, HA-OE, and DC-OE.
• 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. Fixes several security vulnerabilities reported
by the Mozilla Foundation.
• New: HP Auto Port Aggregation: Added to as an recommended product to the BOE, HA-OE,
VSE-OE, DC-OE. Is a software product that creates link aggregates, often called “trunks,”
which provide a logical grouping of two or more physical ports into a single “fat pipe.” This
port arrangement provides more data bandwidth than would otherwise be available. In
addition, HP APA provides automatic link failure detection and recovery, and optional support
for load balancing of network traffic across all of the links in the link aggregate.
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